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    MultiLing 2013 - Programme

    MultiLing 2013 - Programme

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    MultiLing 2013: Program

    Friday August 9, 2013
    09:00    Introduction by the Organizers
    09:05    Session 1 - Data Contribution and Exploitation
    09:05    Session 1 - Multi-document multilingual summarization corpus preparation, Part 1: Arabic, English, Greek, Chinese, Romanian
    Lei Li1,  Corina Forascu2,  Mahmoud El-Haj3,  George Giannakopoulos4
    1Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2RACAI, Romania and UAIC, Romania, 3Lancaster University, 4NCSR Demokritos & SciFY NPC
    		 
    09:35    Session 1 - Multi-document multilingual summarization corpus preparation, Part 2: Czech, Hebrew and Spanish
    Michael Elhadad1,  Sabino Miranda-Jiménez2,  Josef Steinberger3,  George Giannakopoulos4
    1Ben-Gurion Univ. in the Negev, Israel, 2Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, 3University of West Bohemia, 4NCSR Demokritos & SciFY NPC
    10:05    Session 2 - Multi-document Summarization
    10:05    Session 2 - Multi-document multilingual summarization and evaluation tracks in ACL 2013 MultiLing Workshop
    George Giannakopoulos
    NCSR Demokritos & SciFY NPC
    		 
    10:30    Coffee break
    11:00    Session 2 - ACL 2013 MultiLing Pilot Overview
    Jeff Kubina1,  John Conroy2,  Judith Schlesinger2
    1United States Department of Defense, 2IDA Center for Computing Sciences
    		 
    11:30    Session 2 - CIST System Report for ACL MultiLing 2013 -- Track 1: Multilingual Multi-document Summarization
    Lei Li,  Wei Heng,  Jia Yu,  Yu Liu,  Shuhong Wan
    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    		 
    11:50    Session 2 - Multilingual Multi-Document Summarization with POLY2
    Marina Litvak and Natalia Vanetik
    Shamoon College of Engineering
    		 
    12:10    Session 2 - The UWB Summariser at Multiling-2013
    Josef Steinberger
    University of West Bohemia
    		 
    12:30    Lunch break
    14:00    Invited Talk: Natural Language Processing for Analyzing Collective Discourse, Dragomir R. Radev, University of Michigan
    15:00    Session 2 - Multilingual Summarization: Dimensionality Reduction and a Step Towards Optimal Term Coverage
    John Conroy1,  Sashka T. Davis1,  Jeff Kubina2,  Yi-Kai Liu3,  Dianne P. O'Leary4,  Judith D Schlesinger1
    1IDA Center for Computing Sciences, 2Department of Defense, 3NIST, 4University of Maryland and NIST
    		 
    15:30    Coffee break
    16:00    Session 2 - Using a Keyness Metric for Single and Multi Document Summarisation
    Mahmoud El-Haj and Paul Rayson
    Lancaster University
    		 
    16:20    Session 3 - Single-document Summarization
    16:20    Session 3 - Multilingual summarization system based on analyzing the discourse structure at MultiLing 2013
    Daniel Anechitei and Eugen Ignat
    „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“ University of Iasi, Faculty of Computer Science
    		 
    16:40    Session 3 - Multilingual Single-Document Summarization with MUSE
    Marina Litvak1 and Mark Last2
    1Shamoon College of Engineering, 2Ben Gurion University
    		 
    17:00    Closing Discussion

     


    Keynote Speaker

    Dragomir R. Radev, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    Title: Natural Language Processing for Analyzing Collective Discourse

    Dragomir R. Radev is an Associate Professor, School of Information, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

    He joined U-M from IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. While at IBM, Dragomir was also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University in New York City.

    Dr. Radev has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.

    Recent related publications:

    • Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev, Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, David Zajic, Michael Whidby, and Taesun Moon. Generating extractive summaries of scientific paradigms. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2013. 
    • Amjad abu Jbara and Dragomir R. Radev. Coherent citation-based summarization of scientific papers. In Proceedings of ACL 2011, Portland, Oregon, 2011.
    • Vahed Qazvinian and Dragomir R. Radev. Identifying non-explicit citing sentences for citation-based summarization. In Proceedings of ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010.
    • Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev, and Arzucan Özgür. Citation summarization through keyphrase extraction. In COLING 2010, Beijing, China, 2010. 
    • Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir R. Radev, Junghoo Cho, and Amruta Joshi. Content based recommendation and summarization in the blogosphere. In Proceedings of ICWSM 2009, San Jose, CA, 2009. 


    Sessions overview (Finalization Pending)

    Summarization Session

    Summary Evaluation Session

    Data Gathering and Exploitation Session

     

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