Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization

Part I Background and Fundamentals .- 1.Automatic Text Summarization: Past, Present and Future. Horacio Saggion and Thierry Poibeau.- Information Extraction: Past, Present and Future. Jakub Piskorski and Roman Yangarber.- Part II Named Entity in a Multilingual Context.- Learning to Match Names Across Languages. Inderjeet Mani, Alex Yeh, and Sherri Condon.- Computational Methods for Name Normalization Using Hypocoristic Personal Name Variants. Patricia Driscoll.- Entity Linking: Finding Extracted Entities in a Knowledge Base. Delip Rao, Paul McNamee, and Mark Dredze.- A Study of the Effect of Document Representations in Clustering-based Cross-document Coreference Resolution. Horacio Saggion.- Part III Information Extraction.- Interactive Topic Graph Extraction and Exploration of Web Content. Günter Neumann and Sven Schmeier.- Predicting Relevance of Event Extraction for the End User. Silja Huttunen, Arto Vihavainen, Mian Du, and Roman Yangarber.- Open-domain Multi-Document Summarization via Information Extraction: Challenges and Prospects. Heng Ji, Benoit Favre, Wen-Pin Lin, Dan Gillick, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, and Ralph Grishman.- Part IV Multi-document Summarization.- Generating Update Summaries: Using an Unsupervized Clustering Algorithm to Cluster Sentences. Aurélien Bossard.- Multilingual Statistical News Summarization. Mijail Kabadjov, Josef Steinberger and Ralf Steinberger.- A Bottom-up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-document Summarization. Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, and Mitsuru Ishizuka.- Improving Speech-to-Text Summarization by Using Additional Information Sources. Ricardo Ribeiro and David Martins de Matos.- Multi-Document Summarization Techniques for Generating Image Descriptions: A Comparative Analysis. Ahmet Aker, Laura Plaza, Elena Lloret, and Robert Gaizauskas.- Index.

*Thierry Poibeau* holds a PhD and an Habilitation in Computer Science from the University Paris 13. From 1998 to 2003, he has worked for Thales Research and Technology, where he was responsible for research activities in information extraction. Since 2003, he is a CNRS research fellow, working first at the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN) and now at the LaTTiCe laboratory. He is also an affiliated lecturer at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL) of the University of Cambridge (UK). Thierry Poibeau has managed and/or participated in several national and European projects related to his research areas. He has published one book on information extraction, 3 international patents and more than 50 papers in books, international journals and conferences. He has organised several international workshops and acted as programme committee member for over 20 international conferences (e.g. IJCAI, COGSCI, COLING) and associated workshops.

*Horacio Saggion* is a Research Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He obtained his PhD in computer Science from University of Montreal in 2000. He works in the areas of information extraction, text summarization, and semantic analysis. He has published over 50 works in journals, international conferences, workshops, and books. He has been principal researcher and manager for a number of national and international projects, and organized a series of workshops in tha areas of information extraction and summarization. He has also acted in scientific committees for international conferences in Human Language Technology.

*Jakub Pislorski* received his M.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany in 1994 and PhD from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland in 2002. Jakub is a Research Associate at the Polish Academy of Sciences and he is also managingprojects related to NLP

From the reviews:

"This book is a compilation of chapters selected from a series of papers presented at Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization (MMIES), a workshop series on these two topics. ... This book could be useful for researchers and technicians interested in advances in these fields." (Mercedes Martínez González, ACM Computing Reviews, March, 2013)

From the reviews:

"This book is a compilation of chapters selected from a series of papers presented at Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization (MMIES), a workshop series on these two topics. ... This book could be useful for researchers and technicians interested in advances in these fields." (Mercedes Martínez González, ACM Computing Reviews, March, 2013)