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
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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')
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1B: Community task Descriptions (20' each)
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11:15 - 11:35 Headline generation - Marina Litvak
11:35 - 11:55 Financial Narrative Summarization - Mahmoud El Haj
11:55 - 12:15 Summary Evaluation George - Giannakopoulos
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1C: Short paper presentations (15' each)
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12:15 - 12:30: Multi-lingual Wikipedia Summarization and Title Generation On Low Resource Corpus
                          Wei Liu, Lei Li, Zuying Huang and Yinan Liu
12:30 - 12:45: A topic-based sentence representation for extractive text summarization
                          Nikolaos Gialitsis, Nikiforos Pittaras and Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
12:45 - 13:00: A Study on Game Review Summarization
                          George Panagiotopoulos, George Giannakopoulos and Antonios
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13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break (90')
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Session 2: Workshop paper presentations (20' each)
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14:30 - 14:50: Social Web Observatory: An entity-driven, holistic information
                          summarization platform across sources
                          Leonidas Tsekouras, Georgios Petasis and Aris Kosmopoulos
14:50 - 15:10: EASY-M: Evaluation System for Multilingual Summarizers
                          Marina Litvak, Natalia Vanetik and Yael Veksler
15:10 - 15:30: A study of semantic augmentation of word embeddings for extractive summarization
                          Nikiforos Pittaras and Vangelis Karkaletsis
15:30 - 15:50  HEvAS: Headline Evaluation and Analysis System
                          Marina Litvak, Natalia Vanetik and Itzhak Eretz Kdosha
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15:50 - 16:00 Closing remarks and Planning
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16:00 - 16:30 : Final coffee break (30')