This page will be updated with technical reports elaborating on the MultiLing findings, after the workshop. The technical reports are meant to function as an addenum to the Workshop ACL proceedings and allow for post-processing findings to be...

Hi John, George,   Yes, we also discussed it with Michael Elhadad - there may be a significant effect to ROUGE results depending on whether it is adapted to a particular language or not. I think Michael can explain ut better - I used adapted...

Evaluation task submission deadline has moved to Sunday, June 2, 2013. Check the organization roadmap ( http://bit.ly/16ms5lr )

The MultiLing corpus has been made available to the summarization tasks' participants!

IMPORTANT: Check the updated dates in the MultiLing 2013 organization roadmap ( http://bit.ly/16ms5lr )

This page offers samples of input and output for the Multi-document summarization task of MultiLing 2013. Sample input files for several languages (UTF-8 encoded, plain text files). Unzip the provided file to see the sample input...

Please feel free to forward this call. Apologies for cross-postings. MultiLing 2013 - Multilingual Multi-document Summarization Second Call for Systems/Participation August 9th, 2013 ACL 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria...

Hi John. The command line we used was: ROUGE-1.5.5.pl -a -x -2 4 -u -c 95 -e <ROUGEDIR> -r 1000 -n 2 -f A -p 0.5 -t 0 -d <SETTINGS.XML File> We did not modify ROUGE to work with the other languages. This may have caused a problem, as...

Hi George,  Can you post the options you used for ROUGE?  For example, was it using ROUGE1.5.5 with the options -x -u -d -m -n 2 -2 4 -c 95 -r 1000 -f A  -t 0 -a -l 250 Also did you have to modify ROUGE to work with the other...

Dragomir R. Radev is the (first) confirm keynote speaker for MultiLing 2013.

MultiLing 2013: Program Friday August 9, 2013 09:00    Introduction by the Organizers 09:05    Session 1 - Data Contribution and Exploitation 09:05...