2nd CFP
Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering 2002
(post-conference workshop to be held
in conjunction with COLING-2002)
August 31 and September 1, 2002 (1 and half days)
Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/wsqa-coling2002
CALL FOR PAPERS
Growing interest in automated Question Answering is leading to the
development of systems that go beyond 'factoids' to produce answers,
often
drawn from multiple sources that contain multiple parts. Identifying
relevant information and structuring it into a coherent text has however
been studied as part of the topic of automated Text Summarization. What
is
the relationship between these two areas? Under what conditions are
summaries not good answers, and why not? What types of complex answers
exist?
How can one evaluate such answers? How are these issues transformed when
we
cross language boundaries?
We welcome submissions that address the following themes:
... Single document summarization
... Multiple document summarization
... Multilingual text summarization
... Cross-language question answering
... Summary type classification
... Answer type classification
... Multi-part answer type recognition (When do questions require
complex multi-part answers?)
... Multi-part answer extraction
... Complex summary or answer building block identification
... Structured summary creation
... Coherent and effective answer generation
... How to evaluate summaries?
... How to evaluate factoid answers?
... How to evaluate non-factoid answers?
... Corpora creation for complex summarization and QA
... Interfaces and support tools for complex summarization and QA
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS
Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work. Submissions must
use the ACL latex style or
Microsoft Word style WSQA-submission.doc (both available from the here
workshop web page). Paper
submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less,
exclusive of title page and
references). Papers outside the specified length are subject to be
rejected without review. The
paper should be written in English.
SUBMISSION QUESTIONS
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 "COLING2002 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: "COLING2002 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.
DEADLINES
Paper submission deadline: May 6, 2002
Notification of acceptance for papers: June 17, 2002
Camera ready papers due: July 1, 2002
Workshop date: August 31 and September 1, 2002
(1 and half days)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, hh_chen@csie.ntu.edu.tw
Chin-Yew Lin, USC/Information Sciences Institute, cyl@isi.edu
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Regina Barzilay Columbia University, USA
Jason S Chang National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Kuang-Hua Chen National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Junichi Fukumoto Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Takahiro Fukusima Otemon Gakuin University, Japan
Udo Hahn University of Freiburg, Germany
Sanda Harabagiu University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Donna Harman NIST, USA
Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA
Noriko Kando National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
Tsuneaki Kato University of Tokyo, Japan
Wessel Kraaij TNO TPD, Netherlands
Gary Geunbae Lee POSTECH, South Korea
Dekang Lin University of Alberta, Canada
Inderjeet Mani MITRE Corporation, USA
Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA
Mark Maybury MITRE Corporation, USA
Hwee Tou Ng National University of Singapore, Singapore
Manabu Okumura Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
John Prager IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA
Hae-Chang Rim Korea University, South Korea
Horacio Saggion University of Sheffield, UK
Karen Spärck Jones University of Cambridge, UK
Tomek Strzalkowski State University of New York, Albany, USA
Ming Zhou Microsoft Research China, China
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