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cs.rutgers.edu>SECOND CALL FOR SUBMISSION deadline : March 1st MTT 2003 First International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory Paris, Ecole Normale Superieure 16-18 June 2003 Web site : http://mtt2003.linguist.jussieu.fr - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Goals - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Meaning-text Theory (MTT), which grew out of work on machine translation in the USSR 40 years ago, is characterized by: 1. the Modeling of language as a correspondence between meaning and texts/sounds; 2. the central position of the lexicon; 3. the privileged position of semantics over syntax; 4. and the use of a dependency representation in syntax. This conference has two goals: researchers working in the MTT framework will report on their research, and researchers in other frameworks are invited to compare their work to MTT. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jurij Apresjan Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation Richard Hudson University College London, UK - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Expected Submissions - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions related to all aspects of MTT are solicited, be they theoretical, descriptive, or computational. The conference is also open to MTT-based work in fields related to linguistics, such as natural language processing, second language teaching, or psycholinguistics. Submissions detailing work in other frameworks are also solicited, as long as the framework shares with MTT fundamental principles, such as dependency syntax, the decomposition of lexical meaning, the modeling of collocations, the stratification of the linguistic model, or the use of correspondence rules between different levels of representation. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Format - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions can be in French or in English. They should be at most 10 pages (including all figures, data, notes, and bibliography) using a 12 point font, printed in one column. Style files for Word and LaTeX will be available on the web site. Submissions should be sent as PDF or postscript file to: mtt2003.submitMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.rutgers.edu>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 (radevMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue