ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Udo Hahn, University of Freiburg (co-chair)
• Donna Harman, National Inst. of Standards and Technology, (co-chair)
• Eduard Hovy (U. of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute)
• Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan)

INTRODUCTION

There has been a long history of research in text summarization by both the text retrieval and the natural language processing communities, with recent workshops both at NAACL01 and SIGIR01. Over the last five years, we have witnessed a tremendous increase in interest in summarization research from academia and industry, This interest has been recognized by a DARPA program, Translingual Information Detection, Extraction, and Summarization (TIDES), specifically calling for major advances in summarization technology, both in English and from other languages to English (cross-language summarization).

The purpose of this ACL workshop is two-fold. The first day of the workshop will serve as a focal point for presenting new results in summarization. This will include presentations of original scientific papers covering all the various aspects of summarization, and panel discussions on topics related to summarization. The second day will focus on the ongoing summarization evaluation effort called DUC (Document Understanding Conference), which is part of the DARPA TIDES program. The day will start with an overview of the evaluation including results, and then showcase papers from various groups who participated in DUC 2002. The concluding third day will focus on informal discussion of future evaluations and some hands-on exercises involving some aspect of summarization.

For more information on DUC 2002 see the DUC homepage

AGENDA

PUBLICATION

The papers will be published in two volumes to be distributed at the workshop. The first volume will contain the finished papers that are presented on the first day; the second volume will be draft DUC notebook papers. A revised second volume containing final versions of the DUC papers will be made available by NIST at a later date.

DEADLINES

• Camera ready notebook papers for day 2: June 23, 2002
• Workshop date: July 11 and 12, 2002

 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Takahiro Fukusima, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan
• Jade Goldstein, Carnegie Mellon University
• Udo Hahn, University of Freiburg (co-chair)
• Donna Harman, National Inst. of Standards and Technology, (co-chair)
• Eduard Hovy (U. of Southern California/Information Sciences Inst.)i
• Wessel Kraaij, TNO TPD
• Kathy McKeown, Columbia University
• Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
• Karen Sparck Jones, University of Cambridge
• Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge

CORRESPONDENCE

Direct correspondence and inquiries related to this workshop to Donna Harman (donna.harman@nist.gov).

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