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/



DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION

February 28, 2003 (but see below)


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. 

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.

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.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Please send your submission in PS or PDF to both Dragomir Radev and
Simone Teufel at the email addresses shown below.

You must use the HLT-NAACL format described at 
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/hlt-naacl03/format.html
(note that all submissions are anonymous).

POINTERS

http://duc.nist.gov : DUC Evaluation 2003
http://www.hlt-naacl03.org : HLT-NAACL 2003


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)