elsnet |
Sharing Tools and Resources |
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.
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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 |
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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 |
Michael Rosner
mros@cs.um.edu.mt
Thierry Declerck
declerck@dfki.de