MultiLing 2019 will be co-located with RANLP 2019  at Varna, Bulgaria at the 6th of September.
For information pertaining to accomodation, transportation and the workshop venue, please refer to the conference page above.

Invited talk:

Title: Mining and Enriching Multilingual Scientific Text Collections

Speaker: Horacio Saggion

See additional information here.

 Programme:

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Session 1: Opening, invited talk, task descriptions (09:30 - 13:00)
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1A: Opening and invited talk
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09:30 - 09:45  Opening & welcome - George Giannakopoulos (15')
09:45 - 10:45  Invited talk: Mining and Enriching Multilingual Scientific Text Collections - Horacio Saggion (60')

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10:45 - 11:15  Coffee break (30')

1B: Community task Descriptions
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11:15 - 11:35 Headline generation Marina Litvak (20')
11:35 - 11:55 Financial Narrative Summarization Mahmoud El Haj (20')
11:55 - 12:15 Summary Evaluation George Giannakopoulos (20')

1C: Short paper presentations
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12:15 - 12:30: Multi-lingual Wikipedia Summarization and Title Generation On Low Resource Corpus - Wei Liu (15')
12:30 - 12:45: A topic-based sentence representation for extractive text summarization - Nikiforos Pittaras (15')
12:45 - 13:00: A Study on Game Review Summarization - George Giannakopoulos (15')

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13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break (90')

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Session 2: Workshop paper presentations (14:30 - 16:00)
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14:30 - 14:50: An entity-driven, holistic information summarization platform across sources  - Leonidas Tsekouras (20')
14:50 - 15:10: EASY-M: Evaluation System for Multilingual Summarizers - Marina Litvak (20')
15:10 - 15:30: A study of semantic augmentation of word embeddings for extractive summarization - Nikiforos Pittaras (20')
15:30 - 15:50  HEvAS: Headline Evaluation and Analysis System - Marina Litvak (20')
15:50 - 16:00 Closing remarks and Planning

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16:00 - 16:30 : Final coffee break (30')