Overview of MuST at the NTCIR-7 Workshop - Challenges to Multi-modal Summarization for Trend Information.
Tsuneaki Kato, Mitsunori Matsushita · 2008
The Workshop on Multi-modal Summarization for Trend information (MuST) has been encouraging re-searches on summarizing trends, which are an impor-tant first step of researches on technologies for sup-porting interactive and explorative information uti-lization. While MuST in the previous cycles provided the participants with a framework for encouraging re-searches by sharing the same research resources and by addressing a common theme in a broad sense, MuST at NTCIR-7 had a new aspect of an evaluation workshop by picking up some themes that many par-ticipants have been tackling and organizing those into evaluation subtasks. These two aspects of the work-shop have helped to activate and push forward the re-searches: one shows a wide range of possibilities and visions in this field, while the other confirms the state of accomplishment. In addition, shared resources have been developed through the workshop. These activi-ties are encouraging researches on multi-modal sum-marization of trend information. 1