6 August, 2009 |
| | 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 |
| | 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
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 T. Ng |
| 12:30–13:50 | Lunch |
| | Afternoon Session 1: Evaluation |
| 13:50–15:00 | GREC 2009 Shared Task Evaluation results session |
| | The GREC Main Subject Reference Generation Challenge 2009: Overview and Evaluation Results
Anja Belz, Eric Kow, Jette Viethen and Albert Gatt |
| | The GREC Named Entity Generation Challenge 2009: Overview and Evaluation Results
Anja Belz, Eric Kow and Jette Viethen |
| | ICSI-CRF: The Generation of References to the Main Subject and Named Entities Using Conditional Random Fields
Benoit Favre and Bernd Bohnet |
| | UDel: Generating Referring Expressions Guided by Psycholinguistc Findings
Charles Greenbacker and Kathleen McCoy |
| | JUNLG-MSR: A Machine Learning Approach of Main Subject Reference Selection with Rule Based Improvement
Samir Gupta and Sivaji Bandopadhyay |
| | UDel: Extending Reference Generation to Multiple Entities
Charles Greenbacker and Kathleen McCoy |
| | WLV: A Confidence-based Machine Learning Method for the GREC-NEG’09 Task
Constatin Orasan and Iustin Dornescu |
| 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 |
| | 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 Krahmer |
| 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 |