WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
April 26, 2007 | |
| 9:15–9:25 |
Opening |
| 9:25–10:15 |
Overview of DUC 2007 Tasks and Evaluation Results; Pyramid Evaluation Hoa Trang Dang; Lucy Vanderwende |
| 10:15–10:30 |
UNC-CH at DUC 2007: Query Expansion, Lexical Simplification, and Sentence
Selection Strategies for Multi-Document Summarization Catherine Blake, Julia Kampov, Andreas Orphanides, David West, and Cory Lown |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break |
| 11:00–11:30 |
A Contextual Query Expansion Approach by Term Clustering for Robust Text Summarization Massih Amini and Nicolas Usunier |
| 11:30–11:45 |
GOFAIsum: A Symbolic Summarizer for DUC Fabrizio Gotti, Guy Lapalme, Luka Nerima, and Eric Wehrli |
| 11:45–12:00 |
The Pythy Summarization System: Microsoft Research at DUC2007 Kristina Toutanova, Chris Brockett, Michael Gamon, Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Hisami Suzuki, and Lucy Vanderwende |
| 12:00–2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00–2:30 |
LCC's GISTexter at DUC 2007: Machine Reading for Update Summarization Andrew Hickl, Kirk Roberts, and Finley Lacatusu |
| 2:30–3:00 |
The LIA Summarization System at DUC 2007 Florian Boudin, Frederic Bechet, Marc El-Beze, Benoit Favre, Laurent Gillard, and Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno |
| 3:00–3:15 |
Summaries vs. Documents in Extraction of Update Summaries Maheedhar Kolla, Olga Vechtomova, and Charles L. A. Clarke |
| 3:15–3:30 |
NUS at DUC 2007: Using Evolutionary Models of Text Ziheng Lin, Tat-Seng Chua, Min-Yen Kan, Wee Sun Lee, Long Qiu, and Shiren Ye |
| 3:30–4:00 | Break |
| 4:00–4:30 |
Employing Multiple Alternative Sentence Compressions for Automatic Text Summarization Nitin Madnani, David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Necip Fazil Ayan, and Jimmy Lin |
| 4:30–5:00 |
Bridging the ROUGE/Human Evaluation Gap in Multi-Document Summarization John M. Conroy, Judith D. Schlesinger, and Dianne P. O'Leary |
| 5:00–5:30 | Discussion: DUC 2007 System Approaches |
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| 9:15–10:30 | Future Planning: Document Understanding... It's Not Just Summarization Anymore |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break |
| 11:00–11:30 |
TREC Question Answering Tasks and Evaluations Hoa Trang Dang |
| 11:30–11:40 |
Towards Closing the Gap John M. Conroy |
| 11:40–12:15 | Discussion: Evaluation Metrics |