MuST: Workshop on MUltimodal Summarization for Trend Information

The MuST (Multimodal Summarization for Trend Information) workshop was designed to encourage cooperative and competitive studies on summarization and visualization for trend information. The main objective of the workshop is to develop technologies using multimedia presentation that will allow intelligent systems to provide users with appropriate answers to their queries on trend information. These technologies not only could be considered as multimedia presentation generation and multimodal dialogue processing, but also rely largely on information access technologies such as automatic summarization and information extraction, and information visualization. Therefore, the workshop is expected to encourage studies in a wide variety of research fields. A noteworthy feature of the workshop is that the participants share the same research resource, whereby they address common or related themes, with the expectation of encouraging active research and discussion, conforming communities, and constructing and accumulating resources such as tools and corpora.