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Canadian AI 2011, St. John's, Newfoundland, May 2011

Workshop on text summarization, May 24, 2011

Art and Administration building (#14 on the campus map), room A-1043

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The proceedings

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The schedule

8:30 Coffee etc.

8:55 Opening word

9:00 Invited talk I

  • René Witte, Bringing Summarization to End Users: Semantic Assistants for Integrating NLP Web Services and Desktop Clients

10:00 Regular paper 1

  • William Darling and Fei Song, PathSum: A Summarization Framework Based on Hierarchical Topics

10:30 Morning break

10:50 Regular paper 2

  • Pierre-Étienne Genest, Fabrizio Gotti and Yoshua Bengio, Deep Learning for Automatic Summary Scoring

11:20 Regular paper 3

  • Charles Greenbacker, Kathleen Mccoy, Sandra Carberry and David Mcdonald, Semantic Modeling of Multimodal Documents for Abstractive Summarization

11:50 Lunch

13:20 Invited talk II

  • Atefeh Farzindar, The Role of Automatic Summarization in the Canadian Language Industry

14:20 Regular paper 4

  • Darren Kipp, Shallow Semantics for Extractive Summarization using Connexor Machinese Semantics

14:50 Afternoon break

15:10 Regular paper 5

  • Peng Wu and Sandra Carberry, Toward Extractive Summarization of Multimodal Documents

15:40 Discussion / round table

16:40 Final word and bye