People Working on Summarization

• General
  • Sparck Jones, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
  • Kathy McKeown, Computer Science Department at Columbia University
  • Eduard Hovy,  Natural Language Group in Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California
• Query-based Summarization
  • Min-yan Kan, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science Department at Columbia University
• Event-based Summarization (Event Tracking and Summarization)
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• Named Entity-based (Biographical ) Summarization (Entity Detection, Tracking and Summarization)
  • Inderjeet Mani, Department of Linguistics in Georgetown University
  • Regina Barzilay, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
• Discourse Relation and  Summarization (Cross-document Summarization)
  • Dragomir Radev, Computational Linguistics And Information Retrieval research group in University of Michigan
  • Daniel Marcus, Natural Language Group in Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California
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Related Journal Issues, Conferences and Workshops

• Crossing Barriers in Text Summarization Research, Workshop at RANLP 2005
• Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for MT and/or Summarization, Workshop at ACL 2005
• Text Summarization Branches Out, Workshop at ACL 2004
• Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering - Machine Learning and Beyond, Workshop at ACL 2003
• HLT-NAACL Text Summarization Workshop and Document Understanding Conference, 2003
• Special Issue on Summarization , Computational Linguistics, Volume 28, Number 4, 2002
• Automatic Summarization, Workshop at NAACL 2001
• ANLP/NAACL Workshop on Automatic Summarization, 2000

Summarization (Demo) Systems

• Columbia Newsblaster
• NewsInEssence
• SweSum
• BioFinder

Other Useful Links

• Emerging Topics in Automatic Summarization

People Working on Question Answering

• Eduard Hovy,  Natural Language Group in Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California
• Sanda Harabagiu, Human Language Technology Research Institute in University of Texas at Dallas

Related Journal Issues, Conferences and Workshops

• Pragmatics of Question Answering, Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2004
• Information Retrieval for Question Answering, Workshop at SIGIR 2004

Question Answering (Demo) Systems

• START - Natural Language Question Answering System
• NSIR - Question Answering System
• AnswerBus