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Sharing Tools and Resources

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop on
Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education

Co-organised by ELSNET
Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001

BACKGROUND:

At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for tools and materials for the language and speech communities.

An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99 concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials, appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point of departure.

This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories.

Good examples of existing initiatives in this area are among others the ACL Natural Language Software Registry (hosted at DFKI, registry.dfki.de) which was set up as a repository for tools for the distinct fields of Human Language Techology (HLT), the ELRA/ELDA, LDC, TELRI and Elsnet resources catalogues and repositories (www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA, www.ldc.upenn.edu, www.telri.de and www.elsnet.org/resources.html), OLAC (a worldwide network of language archives at www.language-archives.org), and JEWELS (www.elsnet.org/jewels.html), an as-yet incomplete EU funded website for educational materials in Language and Speech.

A third theme concerns how to build upon existing initiatives as sources of data or inspiration.

AIM AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP:

The main goal of the workshop is to discuss methods for the improvement and extension of existing repositories; the educational uses of repositories; the closer interlinking between different kinds of repositories (tools and resources); global infrastructures for the achievement of joint actions. However, we expect the scope of the workshop to be much wider than that, as the issues addressed are of general interest to everybody who believes that sharing tools and resources is essential for the progress of research and education in our field.

PROGRAMME

 

Opening Session

Chair: Mike Rosner

0830

Mike Rosner

Opening

0845

Hans Uszkoreit

Virtual Information Centre for Language Technology

 

Infrastructure, Architectures and Standards (I)

Chair: Thierry Declerck

0930

Thierry Declerck

Introduction: Extending NLP Tools Repositories for the Interaction with Language Data Resource Repositories

 

The TELRI-TRACTOR Initiative

0940

Tomas Erjavec & Tamas Varadi

The TELRI tool catalogue: structure and prospects

1000

Martin Wynne

An Archive for all of Europe

1020

Questions

 

1030

Alberto Lavelli, F. Pianesi, E. Maci, I Prodanoff, L Dini and G. Mazzini

SiSSA - An Infrastructure for NLP Application Development

1100

Break

 

Infrastructure, Architectures and Standards (II)

Chair: Steven Krauwer

1130

Steven Bird & Gary Simons

The OLAC Metadata Set and Controlled Vocabularies

1200

Nicoletta Calzolari, Alessandro Lenci, Antonio Zampolli

International Standards for Multilingual Resource Sharing: The ISLE Computational Lexicon Working Group

1230

Daan Broeder, Peter Wittenburg

Multimedia Language Resources

1300

Lunch

 

Sharing Grammar Resources

Chair: Hans Uszkoreit

1400

Francois Barthelemy, Pierre Bouiller, Philippe Deschamp, Linda Kaouane, Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie

Tools and resources for Tree Adjoining Grammars

1430

N. Yoshinaga, Y Miyao, K. Torisawa, J. Tsuji

Resource Sharing among HPSG and LTAG Communities by a Method of Grammar Conversion from FB-LTAG to HPSG

1500

A. Meyers, Ralph Grishman, Michiko Kosaka, Shubin Zhao

Covering Treebanks with GLARF

1530

Break

 

Tools for Education and Annotation

Chair: Mike Rosner

1600

Anne Copestake, John Carroll, Dan Flickinger, Robert Malouf, Stephan Oepen

Using an Open-Source Unification-Based System for CL/NLP Teaching

1620

R. Delmonte, L. Chiran, C. Bacalu

How to Integrate Linguistic information in FILES and generate feedback for grammar errors

1640

Christopher Cierri & Steven Bird

Annotation Graphs and Servers and Multi-Modal Resources: Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Education, Research and Development

1710

Steven Bird, Kazuaki Maeda, Xiaoyi Ma, Haejoong Lee

Annotation Tools Based on the Annotation Graph API

1730

Concluding Session

Chair: Steven Krauwer

1800

Close

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

  • Thierry Declerck (DFKI) Co-chair (Repository) declerck@dfki.de
  • Mike Rosner (Malta) Co-chair (Education) mros@cs.um.edu.mt
  • Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) Co-chair steven.krauwer@elsnet.org
  • Steven Bird (U. Penn) sb@unagi.cis.upenn.edu
  • Bill Black (UMIST) (UMIST, Manchester, UK) wjb@co.umist.ac.uk
  • Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen) gosse@let.rug.nl
  • Koenraad de Smedt (University of Bergen) desmedt@uib.no
  • Claire Gardent (CNRS, Nancy) claire.gardent@loria.fr
  • Donna Harman (NIST) donna.harman@nist.gov
  • Julia Hirschberg (ATT, ISCA) julia@research.att.com
  • Jun'ichi Tsujii (Tokyo) tsujii@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  • Andy Way (Dublin City University) away@compapp.dcu.ie
  • Antonio Zampolli (Univ. of Pisa) pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it

WORKSHOP WEBSITE

http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-tools.html

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

Michael Rosner
mros@cs.um.edu.mt

Thierry Declerck
declerck@dfki.de  


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