sponsored by
ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
MITRE Corporation
Sunday, April 30, 2000
Seattle, Washington, USA
I. OVERVIEW
The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges
in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and
tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI,
IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this field.
Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There have
been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL
in 97, and the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98. All of these were extremely
successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is
advancing at a much quicker pace than before. ANLP/NAACL'2000 is an ideal
occasion to host another workshop on this problem.
The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers
addressing (but not limited to):
Summarization Methods:
use of linguistic representations,
statistical models,
NL generation for summarization,
production of abstracts and extracts,
multi-document summarization,
narrative techniques in summarization,
multilingual summarization,
text compaction,
multimodal summarization (including summarization of audio),
use of information extraction,
studies and modeling of human summarizers,
improving summary coherence,
concept fusion,
use of thesauri and ontologies,
trainable summarizers,
applications of machine learning,
knowledge-rich methods.
Summarization Resources:
development of corpora for training and evaluating summarizers,
annotation standards,
shared summarization tools,
document segmentation,
topic detection, and
clustering related to summarization
Evaluation Methods:
intrinsic and extrinsic measures,
on-line and off-line evaluations,
standards for evaluation,
task-based evaluation
scenarios, user studies, inter-judge agreement
Workshop Themes:
1. Multilingual Text Summarization
2. Generation for Summarization
3. Topic Identification for Summarization
4. Multidocument Summarization
5. Evaluation and Test/Training Corpora
6. Integration with web and IR access
II. IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2000
Notification of acceptance for papers: March 1, 2000
Camera ready papers due: March 13, 2000
Workshop date: April 30, 2000
III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
Submissions must use the ACL latex style
(http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000/latex/index.html) or Microsoft Word
style
WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop
web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or
less, including references). Please send submission questions to cyl@isi.edu
Submission Procedure:
Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word
form of your submission to: cyl@isi.edu. The Subject line should be
"ANLP-NAACL2000 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no
author information is included as part of the paper. An identification page
must be sent in a separate email with the subject line:
"ANLP-NAACL2000 WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all authors,
theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines.
Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be
e-mailed
to the first author shortly after receipt.
IV. Organizing Committee:
Udo Hahn University of Freiburg
hahn@coling.uni-freiburg.de
Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl@isi.edu
Inderjeet Mani MITRE imani@mitre.org
Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor radev@umich.edu
V. Program Committee:
Elisabeth Andre DFKI GmbH
Branimir Boguraev IBM Research
Chris Buckley SabIR Research
Michael Elhadad Ben Gurion University
Takahiro Fukushima Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan
Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute
Hongyan Jing Columbia University
Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University
Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute
Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology
Mark Maybury MITRE
Vibhu Mittal Just Research
Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam University
Akitoshi Okumura NEC
Chris Paice Lancaster University
Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge
Tomek Strzalkowski GE CRD
Simone Teufel University of Edinburgh
Benjamin Tsou City University of Hong Kong