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
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Opening Session |
Chair: Mike Rosner |
0830 |
Mike Rosner |
Opening |
0845 |
Hans Uszkoreit |
Virtual Information Centre for Language Technology |
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Infrastructure, Architectures and Standards (I) |
Chair: Thierry Declerck |
0930 |
Thierry Declerck |
Introduction: Extending NLP Tools Repositories for the Interaction with Language Data Resource Repositories |
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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 |
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1030 |
Alberto Lavelli, F. Pianesi, E. Maci, I Prodanoff, L Dini and G. Mazzini |
SiSSA - An Infrastructure for NLP Application Development |
1100 |
Break |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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