Roadmap Workshop at COLING 2002
A Roadmap for Computational Linguistics
Saturday, August 31 2002, 09:00-17:30
Workshop in conjunction with
COLING 2002
(August 24 - September 1, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan)
Organized by ELSNET
Context and objective
ELSNET is the European Network of Excellence in Human Language
Technologies, which was created in 1991, with a view to supporting and
facilitating research, development and training in the field of language
and speech technologies and related areas. The network funded by the
European Commission, but its scope is not limited to Europe. This workshop
should be seen as a step in ELSNET's aim to build a roadmap for language
and speech technology. It is one of a number of workshops of this type
that have been and will be organised in order to arrive at a broadly
supported roadmap for our field, which should help us identifying major
challenges, setting research priorities and defining common goals. At this
workshop we have tried to:
- confront the audience with the approach and the results of ELSNET's
roadmapping exercise thus far;
- invite participants to give their own presentation of what they see
as the main longer term challenges and internmediate milestones in our
field as well as their strategies to meet these challenges;
- organise a discussion session aimed at reaching a consensus on what
the main challenges and priorities are.
As a special feature we had invited rapporteurs to to have a critical
look at the papers presented at the various thematic sessions of the main
conference, with a view to relating them to the main challenges and
milestones: do we spot new challenges, new milestones, new strategies, new
directions, regional differences, etc. All reports and summaries of
discussions will be integrated in ELSNET's Roadmap, and given wide
distribution via ELSNET's communication channels (website, newsletter,
discussion forums, etc).
Program
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Time |
Activity |
Speaker |
09:00 |
Opening and Introduction |
Steven Krauwer (ELSNET, NL) |
09:30 |
The ELSNET Roadmap |
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, D) |
10:00 |
Area report: Parsing |
John Carroll (Sussex, UK) |
10:30 |
BREAK |
11:00 |
Why
NLP should move into IAS |
Victor Raskin, Sergei Nirenburg, Mikhail
J. Atallah, Christian F. Hempelmann, Katrina E. Triezenberg (USA) |
11:30 |
Reflection
on the Past of CL |
Ed Hovy (ISI, USA)) |
12:00 |
LUNCH |
13:30 |
MEANING: A Roadmap to
Knowledge Technologies |
Eneko Agirre, German Rigau, Bernardo
Magnini, Piek Vossen, John Carroll |
14:00 |
Area report: Language Resources |
Nicoletta Calzolari (Pisa, I) |
14:30 |
Area report: Machine
Translation |
Hervé Blanchon (GETA, F) |
15:00 |
Area report: Asian Language Processing |
Benjamin Tsou and Olivia Kwong (Hong Kong) |
15:30 |
BREAK |
16:00 |
Area report: Information Retrieval and
Extraction |
Hans Uszkoreit |
16:30 |
Discussion & work: What does the
roadmap for computational linguistics look like? |
Steven Krauwer, Hans Uszkoreit |
17:15 |
Summary |
Steven Krauwer |
17:30 |
CLOSING |
Target audience
A workshop of this type addresses people who are interested in
developing longer term strategic views, e.g. senior scientists in charge
of longer term research policies (both in academia and in industry), but
also researchers and developers who have specific views on what will
happen or what should happen, should feel invited to attend and
contribute, as well as people who are responsible for the education of
future generartions of researchers and developers.
Information
Information on the main conference can be found on:
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/
The URL for this workshop is
http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-coling2002.html
More information on ELSNET's roadmapping activities can be found on
http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap.html
More information on ELSNET: http://www.elsnet.org
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