Thursday, August 6, 2009 |
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Morning Session 1: Sentence Compression and Revision |
| 08:30-09:00 |
Unsupervised Induction of Sentence Compression
Rules
Joao Cordeiro, Gael Dias and Pavel Brazdil: |
| 09:00–09:30 |
A Parse-and-Trim Approach with Information Significance for
Chinese Sentence Compression
Wei Xu and Ralph Grishman |
| 09:30–10:00 |
Syntax-Driven Sentence Revision for Broadcast News Summarization
Hideki Tanaka, Akinori Kinoshita, Takeshi Kobayakawa, Tadashi Kumano and Naoto Katoh |
| 10:00–10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Morning Session 2: Invited Talk / Content Selection |
| 10:30-11:30 |
Query-focused Summarization Using Text-to-Text Generation: When Information Comes from Multilingual Sources
INVITED TALK - Kathy McKeown |
| 11:30-12:00 |
A Classification Algorithm for Predicting the Structure of Summaries
Horacio Saggion |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Optimization-based Content Selection for Opinion Summarization
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng |
| 12:30-13:50 |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Session 1: Evaluation |
| 13:50-15:00 |
GREC Shared Task Evaluation results session |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Evaluation of Automatic Summaries: Metrics under Varying Data Conditions
Karolina Owkzarzak and Hoa Trang Dang |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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Afternoon Session 2: Short Papers / Discussion |
| 16:00-16:20 |
Visual Development Process for Automatic Generation of Digital Games Narrative Content
Maria Fernanda Caropreso, Diana Inkpen, Shahzad Khan and Fazel Keshtkar |
| 16:20-16:40 |
Reducing Redundancy in Multi-document Summarization Using Lexical Semantic Similarity
Iris Hendrickx, Walter Daelemans, Erwin Marsi and Emiel Rudnicky |
| 16:40-17:00 |
Non-textual Event Summarization by Applying Machine Learning to Template-based Language Generation
Mohit Kumar, Dipanjan Das, Sachin Agarwal and Alexander Rudnicky |
| 17:00-17:20 |
Creating an Annotated Corpus for Generating Walking Directions
Stephanie Schuldes, Michael Roth, Anette Frank and Michael Strube |
| 17:20-18:00 |
Panel-led discussion on synergies between summarisation and NLG, including shared tasks; Penel Member
Ed Hovy, Kathy McKeown, Donia Scott |
