LINGUIST List 22.636 Mon Feb 07 2011 Calls: Text/Corpus Ling, Comp Ling/Canada Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Anna Kazantseva , Workshop on Automatic Text Summarization Message 1: Workshop on Automatic Text Summarization Date: 06-Feb-2011 From: Anna Kazantseva <ankazantsite.uottawa.ca> Subject: Workshop on Automatic Text Summarization E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Workshop on Automatic Text Summarization Date: 24-May-2011 - 24-May-2011 Location: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Contact Person: Alistair Kennedy Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://sites.google.com/site/ts11canai/home Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 07-Mar-2011 Meeting Description: Automatic text summarization (TS) has been a matter of active research for over a decade now. Doing TS well would require insights from statistics, machine learning, linguistics and cognitive science, to name a few. Despite a great deal of research effort, state-of-the-art TS systems achieve summary quality much lower than even untrained human summarizers. There is room for improvement and much interesting work to do. Call for Papers: Summarization is the theme of Text Analysis Conferences (TAC), an influential annual shared evaluation exercise. It is not uncommon to plan TS work around those annual events, regardless of their somewhat narrow range: they focus on summarizing news. While this workshop is open to relevant work already presented at TAC, it is designed as a venue for research on TS which does not necessarily fit the TAC format. We will welcome articles which discuss summarization of other genres (such as blogs, email messages, books, captions or subtitles), investigation of human recall and summarization of data, and the role of language generation in TS, among others. We will also gladly consider position papers on more fundamental long-term challenges in TS: how to move past heavy reliance on shallow lexical information, how to create summaries of high linguistic quality, and so on. We invite original unpublished contributions on all aspects of TS, including: * The role of linguistic information and semantic processing in TS; * Discovery of salient information in texts; * Discourse structure for TS; * TS and models of human summarization and discourse processing; * Summarization of long narratives; * Beyond genre differences: event-based TS, abstractive TS, contrastive TS, opinion summarization; * Summary evaluation models, user involvement in evaluation; * Automatic domain modeling for summarization and abstracting; * User-tailored summaries; * Integration of summarization with end-user tools. Dates: Submission: March 7, 2011 Acceptance notices: April 8, 2011 Camera-ready papers: April 22, 2011 Workshop: May 24, 2011 Submission: Papers must be written in English and have up to 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style (www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submission will be electronic, in PDF, Postscript or RTF. Visit our submission page in EasyChair (www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ts11). The use of LaTeX and PDF is strongly encouraged. Program Committee: Sabine Bergler, Concordia University Aurélien Bossard, Orange Labs Claire Cardie, Cornell University Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia Yllias Chali, University of Lethbridge John Conroy, IDA / Center for Computing Sciences Pierre-Étienne Genest, Université de Montréal Atefeh Farzindar, NLP Technologies Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa Anna Kazantseva, University of Ottawa Alistair Kennedy, University of Ottawa Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal Vivi Nastase, HITS gGmbH Thierry Poibeau, CNRS and École Normale Supérieure Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Frank Schilder, Thomson Reuters Judith Schlesinger, IDA / Center for Computing Sciences Josef Steinberger, EC Joint Research Centre Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa Kapil Thadani, Columbia University René Witte, Concordia University Florian Wolf, MergeFlow Liang Zhou, Thomson Reuter Organizers: Anna Kazantseva, University of Ottawa Alistair Kennedy, University of Ottawa Guy Lapalme, Universit√© de Montr√©al Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa Contact: akennedy at site.uottawa.ca szpak at site.uottawa.ca Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 07-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.