Preliminary CFP Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering 2002 (post-conference workshop to be held in conjunction with COLING-2002) August 31 and September 1, 2002 (1 and half days) Taipei, Taiwan ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, hh_chen@csie.ntu.edu.tw Chin-Yew Lin, USC/Information Sciences Institute, cyl@isi.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE: TBA. CALL FOR PAPERS Growing interest in automated Question Answering is leading to the development of systems that go beyond 'factoids' to produce answers, often drawn from multiple sources that contain multiple parts. Identifying relevant information and structuring it into a coherent text has however been studied as part of the topic of automated Text Summarization. What is the relationship between these two areas? Under what conditions are summaries not good answers, and why not? What types of complex answers exist? How can one evaluate such answers? How are these issues transformed when we cross language boundaries? We welcome submissions that address the following themes: ... Single document summarization ... Multiple document summarization ... Multilingual text summarization ... Cross-language question answering ... Summary type classification ... Answer type classification ... Multi-part answer type recognition (When do questions require complex multi-part answers?) ... Multi-part answer extraction ... Complex summary or answer building block identification ... Structured summary creation ... Coherent and effective answer generation ... How to evaluate summaries? ... How to evaluate factoid answers? ... How to evaluate non-factoid answers? ... Corpora creation for complex summarization and QA ... Interfaces and support tools for complex summarization and QA FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work. Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style WSQA-submission.doc (both available from the here workshop web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, exclusive of title page and references). Papers outside the specified length are subject to be rejected without review. The paper should be written in English. SUBMISSION QUESTIONS Please send submission questions to cyl@isi.edu SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word form of your submission to: cyl@isi.edu. The Subject line should be "COLING2002 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the subject line: "COLING2002 WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. DEADLINES (Tentative) Paper submission deadline: May 6, 2002 Notification of acceptance for papers: June 17, 2002 Camera ready papers due: July 1, 2002 Workshop date: August 31 and September 1, 2002 (1 and half days)