NewSumm
Organizers: Yue Dong, Wen Xiao, Lu Wang, Fei Liu, Giuseppe Carenini
NewSumm workshop, a key forum in its fourth edition, aims to develop intelligent systems for producing concise, fluent, and accurate summaries in natural language processing. It unites experts from diverse fields like summarization, language generation, and psycholinguistics to explore automatic summarization's critical aspects. The comprehensive agenda addresses innovative paradigms, multilingual setups, novel evaluation methods, and future research directions. This edition, following successful predecessors at EMNLP 2017, 2019, and 2021, received 31 paper submissions with a 42% acceptance rate. It features five esteemed speakers, including Kathleen McKeown, Jackie Cheung, Rui Zhang, Iz Beltagy, and Chenguang Zhu, representing a broad spectrum of expertise in the field. The workshop aims to build a cohesive research community and develop new tools and resources for academia, industry, and government.