elsnet |
Roadmap Workshop at COLING 2002 |
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:
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).
[Final]
Time | Activity | Speaker |
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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 |
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 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
Steven Krauwer (Chair), | steven.krauwer@let.uu.nl |
ELSNET / Utrecht University | http://www.elsnet.org |
Trans 10 | phone: +31 30 253 6050 |
3512 JK UTRECHT, NL | fax: +31 30 253 6000 |