OPENING SESSION
9:00-9:10	Opening Remarks Inderjeet Mani
9:10-9:40	Keynote Address: Where are we now? Where should we go? [slides] Karen Sparck Jones
9:40-9:50	Discussion
SESSION 1: TOPIC-LEVEL ABSTRACTION (chair: Udo Hahn)
9:50-10:10	Salience-based Content Characterization of Text Documents Branimir Boguraev and Christopher Kennedy
10:10-10:30	Using Lexical Chains for Text Summarization Regina Barzilay and Michael Elhadad
10:30-11:00	BREAK
11:00-11:20	Automated Text Summarization in SUMMARIST Eduard Hovy and Chin Yew Lin
11:20-11:35	Discussion
SESSION 2: EVALUATION METHODS (chair: Boyan Onyshkevych)
11:35-11:55	How to Appreciate the Quality of Automatic Text Summarization [Slides(RTF)] Jean-Luc Minel, Sylvaine Nugier, and Gérald Piat
11:55-12:15	A Proposal for Task-Based Evaluation of Text Summarization Systems Thérèse F. Hand
12:15-12:30	Discussion
12:30-1:00	Special Interest Panel: Cross-Lingual Text Summarization
1:00-3:00	LUNCH
SESSION 3: STATISTICAL APPROACHES (chair: Eduard Hovy)
3:00-3:20	Automatic Text Summarization by Paragraph Extraction Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, and Chris Buckley
3:20-3:40	Goal Directed Approach for Text Summarization Ryo Ochitani, Yoshio Nakao, and Fumihito Nishino
3:40-4:00	Statistical Methods for Retrieving Most Significant Paragraphs in Newspaper Articles José Abracos and Gabriel Pereira Lopes
4:00-4:20	Sentence extraction as a classification task [slides] Simone H. Teufel and Marc Moens
4:20-4:35	Discussion
4:35-5:00	BREAK
SESSION 4: COMBINING DISCOURSE-LEVEL FEATURES (chair: Inderjeet Mani)
5:00-5:20	A Scalable Summarization System Using Robust NLP Chinatsu Aone, Mary Ellen Okurowski, James Gorlinsky, Bjornar Larsen
5:20-5:40	COSY-MATS: An Intelligent and Scalable Summarization Shell Maria Aretoulaki
5:40-6:00	From Discourse Structures to Text Summaries Daniel Marcu
6:00-6:15	Discussion
6:15-6:30	BREAK
SESSION 5: SUMMARIZATION MODELS (chair: Mark Maybury)
6:30-6:50	SimSum: Simulation of summarizing Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer
6:50-7:10	A Formal Model of Text Summarization Based on Condensation Operators of a Terminological Logic Ulrich Reimer and Udo Hahn
7:10-7:25	Discussion
7:25-7:35	Wrap-Up [PowerPoint format] + some slides in [ASCII] Mark Maybury

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