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.
This 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. If enough interest is expressed, a meeting to update the roadmap on research on text summarization will be held as part of the workshop.
The second day of the workshop will be devoted to a discussion of the results from DUC 2003 and the plans for DUC 2004. The DUC schedule calls for results to be submitted by mid-February.
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:
The main HLT-NAACL conference will be held May 28-30. The dates for the DUC workshop are Saturday, May 31 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.
all of the above plus: