ACL Text Summarization Workshop 2002:
Preliminary Program
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Day One: Thursday, July 11

Session 1: Chair, Eduard Hovy


9:00-9:30 Using maximum entropy for sentence extraction
Miles Osborne

9:30-10:00 Selecting sentences for multidocument summaries using randomized local search
Michael White and Claire Cardie

10:00-10:30 Using a text engineering framework to build an extendable and portable IE-based summarisation system
Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham and Oana Hamzai

10:30-11:00 Break

Session 2: Chair, Udo Hahn


11:00-11:30 Revisions that improve cohesion in multi-document summaries: a preliminary study
Jahna C. Otterbacher, Dragomir R. Radev and Airong Luo

11:30-12:00 Using summaries in document retrieval
Mark Wasson

12:00-12:30 Manual and automatic evaluation of summaries
Chin-Yew Lin and Eduard Hovy

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Overview of DUC 2002
Paul Over

2:30-3:30 Panel 1: Evaluation
Daniel Marcu

3:30-4:00 Break

4:00-5:30 Panel 2: Roadmap revisited/Resources/What next
Donna Harman


Day Two: Friday, July 12

Reports from DUC 2002 Participants

Session 1: Chair, Dragomir Radev

8:30-8:50 Columbia University, Kathleen McKeown
8:50-9:10 GLEANS/ISI, Radu Soricut
9:10-9:30 TNO TPD, Wessel Kraaij
9:30-9:50 Language Computer Corporation, Sanda Harabagiu

10:00-10:30 Break

Session 2: Chair, Kathy McKeown

10:30-10:50 University of Lethbridge, Yllias Chali
10:50-11:10 University of Ottawa, Stan Szpakowicz
11:10-11:30 Penn State University, Hongyuan Zha
11:30-11:50 University of Nijmegen, Hans van Halteren

12:00-1:00 Lunch

Session 3: Chair, Simone Teufel

1:00-1:20 University of Michigan, Dragomir Radev
1:20-1:40 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Marie-Francine Moens
1:40-2:00 IDA/NSA, John Conroy

Session 4: Chair, Wessel Kraaij

2:10-2:20 BBN, Richard Schwartz
2:20-2:30 Microsoft Research Cambridge, Murat Karamuftuoglu
2:30-2:40 Imperial College, Partha Lal
2:40-2:50 University of Montreal, Atefeh Farzindar
2:50-3:00 NeATs/ISI, Chin-Yew Lin

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-4:30 Discussion of DUC 2002/Wrapup, Karen Sparck Jones




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