International:
- Summarizing Text for Intelligent Communication,
Dagstuhl, December 1993- ACL'97/EACL'97 Workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization,
Madrid, Spain, July 11, 1997- AAAI'98 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization
Stanford, October 24, 1997- Workshop on Automatic Summarization co-located with NA-ACL 2000
Seattle, May, 2000- Workshop on Automatic Summarization co-located with NA-ACL 2001
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. June 2001- Workshop on Automatic Summarization co-located with ACL 2002
Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA. July , 2002- Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering co-located with COLING 2002
Taipei, Taiwan. August 31 and September 1, 2002- Text Summarization Workshop co-located with HLT-NAACL 2003
Edmonton, Canada. May 31 and June 1, 2003- Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering co-located with ACL 2003
Sapporo, Japan. July 2003Regional:
- (Japan) National Institute of Informatics: Test Collections for IR Systems Workshop
Annually since 2000- (France) Le résumé de texte automatique : solutions et perspectives (Automatic Summarization: Solutions and perspectives)
Paris, France. December 2002
The international conferences for NLP and IR can be found at:
- ACL: Association for Computation Linguistics
- SIGIR: Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
- SIGGEN: Special Interest Group on Generation (contains a comprehensive list of conferences in the area)
Both these related fields present papers on Text Summarization.