HLT-NAACL Text Summarization Workshop
and
Document Understanding Conference (DUC 2003)
May 31 and June 1, 2003
Edmonton, AB, Canada
http://www.umich.edu/cl/hlt-naacl-duc03/
MOTIVATION
A series of highly successful summarization meetings have been held
over the last few years in a number of locations: Dagstuhl 1994,
Madrid 1997, Stanford 1998, Seattle 2000, Pittsburgh 2001, New Orleans
2001 (DUC 2001), and Philadelphia 2002 (jointly with DUC 2002). The
goal of the 2003 meeting is to provide a venue where new results
can be discussed, including results from DUC 2003.
Over the last three years, DUC (Document Understanding Conference,
http://duc.nist.gov/) has been the main evaluation forum for research
in text summarization. Sixteen sites participated in the most recent
installment of the evaluation, with results presented at a joint
workshop following the Philadelphia ACL meeting.
The proposed workshop will include papers on all aspects of
text summarization, including but not limited to the following:
non-extractive summarization, spoken language (including dialogue)
summarization, language modeling for text and speech summarization,
multi-document and multilingual summarization, integration of
question answering and text summarization, Web-based summarization,
evaluation of summarization systems, etc. If enough interest is
expressed, a meeting to update the roadmap on research on text
summarization will be held as part of the workshop. The workshop
will also include an invited speaker (to be confirmed).
The second day of the workshop will be devoted to discussion of
the results from DUC 2003. The DUC schedule calls for results
to be submitted by mid-February and a post-evaluation meeting to
be held in late May - early June where researchers will discuss
their approaches and plan for DUC 2004.
FORMAT OF THE JOINT MEETING
The suggested format for the meeting is quite similar to last year's
workshop in Philadelphia
(http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/duc/duc2002/Acl02SummarizationWorkshop.html
).
Two tracks will be included in the program:
T1. Regular summarization papers (submission open to the general
public), published by ACL
T2. (draft) DUC notebook papers (submission limited to DUC
participants, attendance is open), published by NIST
Some important dates (tentative):
Track T1:
- February 28, 2003 - submissions due
- March 19, 2003 - authors notified
- April 1, 2003 - camera-ready papers due
Track T2:
- May 5, 2003 - notebook papers due at NIST
The main HLT-NAACL conference will be held May 28-30. The proposed
dates for the DUC workshop are Saturday, May 30 and Sunday, June 1,
2003. The exact schedule of the workshop will be determined later,
based on the number of submissions to the two tracks.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Dragomir Radev (co-chair), University of Michigan (radev@umich.edu)
Simone Teufel (co-chair), University of Cambridge (simone.teufel@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Donna Harman, NIST (donna.harman@nist.gov)
Paul Over, NIST (paul.over@nist.gov)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
all of the above plus:
Regina Barzilay, Cornell University (regina@cs.cornell.edu)
John Conroy, IDA Center for Computing Sciences (conroy@super.org)
Udo Hahn, U. Freiburg (hahn@coling.uni-freiburg.de)
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI (hovy@isi.edu)
Hongyan Jing, IBM Research (hjing@us.ibm.com)
Guy Lapalme, U. Montreal (lapalme@iro.umontreal.ca)
Chin-Yew Lin, USC/ISI (cyl@isi.edu)
Inderjeet Mani, MITRE (imani@mitre.org)
Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven (marie-france.moens@law.kuleuven.ac.be)
Karen Sparck-Jones, U. Cambridge (karen.sparck-jones@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Tadashi Nomoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature (nomoto@acm.org)
Horacio Saggion, U. Sheffield (h.saggion@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Stan Szpakowicz, U. Ottawa (szpak@site.uottawa.ca)
Klaus Zechner, ETS (kzechner@ets.org)
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