Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering

Program Chairs: Abraham Ittycheriah, Tsuneaki Kato, Chin-Yew Lin and Yutaka Sasaki

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Session 1: Question Answering
pdfs pdf ps bib Question Answering via Bayesian Inference on Lexical Relations pp. 1-10
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Apurva Jadhav, Ashutosh Joshi, Soumen Chakrabarti  and  Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Session 2: Summarization
pdfs pdf ps bib Using Thematic Information in Statistical Headline Generation pp. 11-20
Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Cécile Paris  and  Robert Dale
pdfs pdf ps bib Combining Optimal Clustering and Hidden Markov Models for Extractive Summarization pp. 21-28
Pascale Fung, Grace Ngai  and  Chi-Shun Cheung
pdfs pdf ps bib Evaluation of Features for Sentence Extraction on Different Types of Corpora pp. 29-36
Chikashi Nobata, Satoshi Sekine  and  Hitoshi Isahara
pdfs pdf ps bib An Evolutionary Approach for Improving the Quality of Automatic Summaries pp. 37-45
Constantin Orasan
Session 3: New Directions in Question Answering
pdfs pdf ps bib HITIQA: An Interactive Question Answering System: A Preliminary Report pp. 46-53
Sharon Small, Ting Liu, Nobuyuki Shimizu  and  Tomek Strzalkowski
pdfs pdf ps bib Discovery of Manner Relations and Their Applicability to Question Answering pp. 54-60
Roxana Girju, Manju Putcha  and  Dan Moldovan
Session 4: Machine Learning Approach to QA
pdfs pdf ps bib Question Classification using HDAG Kernel pp. 61-68
Jun Suzuki, Hirotoshi Taira, Yutaka Sasaki  and  Eisaku Maeda
pdfs pdf ps bib Statistical QA - Classifier vs. Re-ranker: What's the difference? pp. 69-75
Deepak Ravichandran, Eduard Hovy  and  Franz Josef Och
pdfs pdf ps bib Automatic Detection of Causal Relations for Question Answering pp. 76-83
Roxana Girju
pdfs pdf ps bib Question Answering on a Case Insensitive Corpus pp. 84-93
Wei Li, Rohini Srihari, Cheng Niu  and  Xiaoge Li