summarization

BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing
and question answering (part of the CLEF 2014 QA track to
take place in Sheffield, UK, 15-18 September, 2014)

Web site: http://bioasq.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq
CLEF-QA site: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/

We are happy to announce that the first test for BioASQ Task 2b
(biomedical semantic QA) will take place in a few days!

If you are interested in any of the following areas:

* Question answering from unstructured and structured data

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BioASQ Workshop
Website: http://www.bioasq.org/news/bioasq-workshop
Project URL: http://www.bioasq.org/
Post-conference workshop after CLEF 2013, September 27, Valencia, Spain
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*Scope*

Every day, we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. In domains such as
bio-medicine, approximately 3000 new articles are published on the Web
every day. This averages to more than 2 articles every minute. In

BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
(BioASQ workshop to be collocated with CLEF 2013 in Valencia, Spain on September 27, 2013)

Web site: http://bioasq.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq

The BioASQ challenge aims to push for a solution to the information access problem of biomedical experts. It will evaluate the ability of systems to perform various tasks in the biomedical QA process:
1. large-scale classification of biomedical documents onto ontology concepts (semantic indexing),

The deadline for short paper submissions at the INLG 2012 conference has been extended to February 29, 2012, 11:59pm CST (-6 GMT). As previously announced, the deadline for demos will be on March 7, also 11:59pm CST. Short papers are allotted 4 pages, excluding references. Details on the submission process and downloadable style files can be found at http://www.nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/

The submission web site is: https://www.softconf.com/c/inlg2012/

Please submit your late breaking results on a variety of NLG topics, including, but not limited to:

INLG 2012, the 7th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, will take place at Starved Rock State Park, Utica, IL, May 30-June 1, 2012.

Further details on the program, an updated CFP with submission
information and downloadable style files, and the full program
committee is now available at the conference web site

http://nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/

Highlights:

1. Invited speakers: Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware; and James Lester,
North Carolina State University

2. Submission web site: https://www.softconf.com/c/inlg2012/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Automatic summarization of written news has been an area of active research for over a decade now. A wide range of summarization approaches for news have been developed and tested on large reference datasets provided by the Document Understanding Conferences (DUC) and the current Text Analysis Conference (TAC), and both manual and automatic evaluation measures have been developed and validated for this genre.

ACL-HLT 2011 Workshop: Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages

Automatic summarization of written news has been an area of active research for over a decade now. A wide range of summarization approaches for news have been developed and tested on large reference datasets provided by the Document Understanding Conferences (DUC) and the current Text Analysis Conference (TAC), and both manual and automatic evaluation measures have been developed and validated for this genre.