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Deadline extension to July 17th
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Call for Papers
Special Issue on Summarization
Information Processing and Management
Editor, Donna Harman
Summarization of text has a long history, starting with the desire to automatically create abstracts or index terms for documents back in the 1960s. There has been
increased interest during the last ten years, evidenced by the number of workshops that feature summarization.
Additionally the Document Understanding Conference (DUC) has focused on summarization for five years now, with 31 participating groups in 2005 working on multidocument
summarization to create an answer to a question.
Operational systems to summarize news exist, work is ongoing on speech summarization, and some of the first cross-lingual
summarization has been implemented. Several new methods for
evaluation of summaries have been explored recently, along
with investigations into how summaries might (or might not)
improve efficiency in information processing.
This special issue is being created to reflect the current
state-of-the-art in diverse areas in summarization. Some of
the possible topics for papers include:
automatic abstract or title creation
Single- and multiple-sentence compression and
information fusion
multi-document summarization
cross-lingual summarization
evaluation of summarization
summarization for specific domains (news, genomics,
legal, etc.)
summarization for different genre and media (speech,
emails, web, etc.)
summarization for specific applications
(question-answering, automatic report generation, etc.)
operational summarization systems
user studies involving summarization
Important dates:
July 17, 2006 -- submission due
October 17, 2006 -- notification to authors
December 1, 2006 -- submission due for revised version
Papers should be submitted to the online site for IP & M
http://ees.elsevier.com/ipm
with the submission box checked off that it is for the
special issue on summarization. Instructions on formatting
can also be found at the above site.
For more information, contact
Donna Harman
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Dr, Stop 8940
Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-8940
USA
donna.harman@nist.gov
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