Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001
(pre-conference workshop in conjunction with NAACL2001)
Sunday, June 3, 2001
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
sponsored by
ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
MITRE Corporation
New submission deadline: Febuary 23, 2001
Organizing Committee:
Jade Goldstein Carnegie Mellon University jade+@cs.cmu.edu
Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl@isi.edu
Program Committee:
Breck Baldwin Baldwin Language Tech
Hsin-Hsi Chen National Taiwan University
Udo Hahn Universitaet Freiburg
Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute
Hongyan Jing Columbia University
Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University
Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute
Inderjeet Mani MITRE
Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology
Marie-Francine Moens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Vibhu Mittal Google Research
Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam National University
Akitoshi Okumura NEC
Chris Paice Lancaster University
Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge
Tomek Strzalkowski State University of New York,
Albany
Simone Teufel Columbia University
Workshop Website:
http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-naacl2001 (for the latest update)
I. OVERVIEW
II. CALL FOR PAPERS
III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
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, ANLP/NAACL, 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, the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98, and ANLP/NAACL in 2000. 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. NAACL'2001
is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem.
II. CALL FOR PAPERS
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. Summarization Applications
2. Multidocument Summarization
3. Multilingual Text Summarization
4. Evaluation and Text/Training Corpora
5. Generation for Summarization
6. Topic Identification for Summarization
7. Integration with Web and IR Access
III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
Submissions must use the ACL latex style 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).
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
"NAACL2001 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: "NAACL2001 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: Feburary 23, 2001
Notification of acceptance for papers: March 23, 2001
Camera ready papers due: April 6, 2001
Workshop date: June 3, 2001
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