News:

(2017-02-16) Anti-harassment Policy of ACL supported by MultiLing 2017. See more here.

(2017-02-16) Decisions of papers will be sent out within the day.

(2016-12-17) Submission deadline extended to Monday, Jan 30, 2017 (end of day GMT-12, i.e. end of day wherever you are in the world).

(2016-12-16) Extension to the submission deadline (at least a week). Finalization of updated deadline pending.

(2016-12-13) Paper submissions should be made at the following webpage: https://www.softconf.com/eacl2017/multiling2017/

(2016-12-13) Second call for papers published

(2016-12-05) Date of workshop fixed to April, 3rd 2017

(2016-11-10) First call for papers published. Check the corresponding subpage.

(2016-11-08) First call for papers in preparation.

(2016-11-02) MultiLing accepted as an EACL 2017 Workshop.

Main Info:

MultiLing 2017 is an accepted, one-day EACL 2017 Workshop with this year's focus on

Summarization and summary evaluation across source types and genres

MultiLing 2017 will be collocated with EACL 2017 in Valencia, Spain on April 3/4, 2016 (date finalization pending by EACL organizers).

For important dates check the Roadmap sub-page.

Below we provide a quick view of the Workshop information. Extended information (overview and tasks, roadmap, calls, per-task pages) can be found in the links advertised as sub-pages in the "Navigation" index on the right of this page.

Invited speakers (Finalization pending)

• Enrique Alfonseca - Google

Organizers

• George Giannakopoulos - NCSR Demokritos (General Chair, Summary Evaluation Task)
• Benoit Favre - LIF (CCCS, Headline Generation Task)
• Elena Lloret - University of Alicante (Headline Generation Task)
• John M. Conroy - IDA Center for Computing Sciences (Single Document Summarization Task)
• Josef Steinberger - University of West Bohemia (OnForumS task)
• Marina Litvak - Sami Shamoon College of Engineering (Headline Generation Task)
• Peter Rankel - Elder Research Inc. (Single Document Summarization Task)

Programme Committee (PC) members (finalization pending):

• Udo Kruschwitz - University of Essex
• Horacio Saggion - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Katja Filippova - Google
• John M. Conroy - IDA Center for Computing Sciences
• Vangelis Karkaletsis - NCSR Demokritos
• Laura Plaza - UNED
• Francesco Ronzano - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Mark Last - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• George Petasis - NCSR Demokritos
• Elena Lloret - University of Alicante
• Ahmet Aker - Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Josef Steinberger - University of West Bohemia
• Benoit Favre - LIF
• Marina Litvak - Sami Shamoon College of Engineering
• Mijail Alexandrov Kabadjov - University of Essex
• Natalia Vanetik - Sami Shamoon College of Engineering
• Florian Boudin - University of Nantes
• Mahmoud El-Haj - Lancaster University
• George Giannakopoulos - NCSR Demokritos

Additional information will be made available on this page (and subpages), as they are available.