MultiLing 2019 is being set on track. Stay tuned for a number of updates related to tasks!

Thank you all for a very successful and interesting event in Valencia! Soon we will undertake the next steps of MultiLing. Stay tuned!

Camera-ready versions of the papers for MultiLing 2017 uploaded. Check the appropriate Event Information page.

Invited Talk Bio: Enrique Alfonseca is a Staff Research Scientist at Google Research Europe, where he manages a team working on language understanding. Over the past ten years, he  has worked at Google in ads quality, search quality and...

The addendum will be updated soon.

REMINDER: Deadline for final submissions (camera-ready) today (23:59, GMT-12).

Anti-Harassment Policy  The open exchange of ideas, the freedom of thought and expression, and respectful scientific debate are central to the aims and goals of the ACL. These require a community and an environment that recognizes the inherent...

To authors: The Notification of Acceptance date has moved to Feb 16, 2017.

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Submission deadline extended to Monday, Jan 30, 2017 (end of day GMT-12, i.e. end of day wherever you are in the world).

Stay tuned for the announcement of an EXTENSION to the submission deadline for papers (at least a week)!

We release 19 English docs. and 19 Italian as testing data for the new OnForumS evaluation.

This is the directory of ROUGE as used for MultiLing 2015. The modifications were made by Jeff Kubina.

This is the submissions from the MSS (single-document summarization) from MultiLing 2015. The ROUGE scores and MeMoG scores, automatic evaluaiton are included.  

Task description The Call Centre Conversation Summarization (CCCS) task --- run for the first time as a pilot task in 2015 --- consists in automatically generating summaries of spoken conversations in the form of textual synopses that shall inform...

Task description Further to the successful pilot of OnForumS at MultiLing 2015, we are organizing the task againin 2017 with a brand new dataset.  The OnForumS task investigateshow the mass of comments found on news providers web sites (e.g.,...

Task description This task aims to examine how well automated systems can evaluate summaries from different languages. This task takes as input the summaries generated from automatic systems and humans in the Summarization Tasks of MultiLing 2015,...

Task description The objective of the Headline Generation (HG) task is to explore some of the challenges highlighted by current state of the art approaches on creating informative headlines to news articles: non-descriptive headlines, out-of-domain...

Task description Following the task of 2015, the multi-lingual single-document summarization task will be to generate a single document summary for all the given Wikipedia feature articles from one of about 38 languages provided. The provided...