Text Summarization Branches Out July 25-26, 2004. Workshop at ACL 2004 Forum Convention Centre Barcelona, Spain http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/conferences/acl_summarization2004.php Call for papers Text summarization is still largely in a research phase, and has so far focused on news text, but it is increasingly becoming a tool for information search and selection in a variety of media. For example, summarizing is a necessity when showing content on the screen of a mobile device. Texts integrated in multimedia documents have different genres or types, but they all require the same flexibility in the presentation of summaries by allowing parameterized compression rates and integration in a mixed media format. Text summarization has been so far dominated by statistical techniques. However, for improved output quality and increased compression, other techniques are expected to play important roles as well. Linguistically motivated natural language processing techniques, including semantic analysis and discourse analysis, are almost certainly required for summarization in non-news genres. Automated reasoning techniques could allow fusion and understanding of content. Machine learning, both supervised and unsupervised, still has a major role to play. Finally, evaluation is an ongoing concern. The proposed workshop aims to address all these issues. We invite submission of papers about text summarization including, but not limited to, the following topics. * Single-sentence compression * Multiple-sentence compression and information fusion * Domain-oriented summarization of multiple texts * Comparative summarization of multiple reviews * Summarization of Web pages * Summarization of dialogue (e.g., blogs, video captions) * Summarization of speech * Summarization for mobile devices * Summarization for other disciplines, e.g., legal or medical applications * Toward summarizing large, loosely structured texts (e.g., novels) * Temporal and event semantics for summarization * Data search structures for summaries of flexible and mixed media format * Automated and manual summary evaluation methods * Quantifying summary quality The workshop will feature an invited speaker (to be confirmed), and two panels, one looking back and one looking far ahead, plus ad-hoc discussion groups. Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2004 * Notification of acceptance for papers: April 25, 2004 * Camera ready papers due: May 15, 2004 * Workshop date: July 25-26, 2004 Submission Procedure Authors should submit full papers of maximum 8 pages, including references and figures, following the main conference ACL style format. Submissions should be sent: http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/conferences/acl_summarization2004.php. Organizing Committee * Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA * Marie-Francine Moens (co-chair), Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & Information Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Dragomir Radev, School of Information and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA * Stan Szpakowicz (co-chair), School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Committee * Regina Barzilay, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT, USA * Hercules Dalianis, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * Chiori Hori, NTT, Japan * Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA * Hongyan Jing, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Kathy McKeown, Computer Science Department, Columbia University, USA * Chin-Yew Lin, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA * Inderjeet Mani, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA * Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA * Marie-Francine Moens, Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & Information Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Dragomir Radev, School of Information and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA * Horacio Rodriguez, Departamento de LSI, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain * Horacio Saggion, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK * Judith Schlesinger, IDA/Center for Computing Sciences, USA * Karen Sparck Jones, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK * Stan Szpakowicz, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada * John Tait, School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, UK * Simone Teufel, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK * Peter Turney, NRC Ottawa, Canada * Hans van Halteren, Department of Language and Speech, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Contact addresses Marie-Francine Moens Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & Information Technology Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Tiensestraat 41 B-3000 Leuven Belgium marie-france.moens@law.kuleuven.ac.be http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/staff/staff.php?id=13 Stan Szpakowicz School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa 800 King Edward Avenue Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada szpak@site.uottawa.ca http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak