ELSNET in Wonderland
25-27 March 1998
Soesterberg, The Netherlands
PROGRAMME and WORKSHOP SUMMARIES
Wednesday, March 25:
11:00-12:30 REGISTRATION
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
Session 1:
The Wonderland Concept
14:00-14:30 Opening: Steven Krauwer
14:30-15:00 The LE Showcase: Tony Hegarty
15:00-15:30 Ole Bernsen
15:30-16:00 Joana Lipeikiene
16:00-16:30 BREAK
Session 2:
Training
16:30-17:00 Gerrit Bloothooft
17:00-17:30 Dan Tufis
17:30-18:00 Serge Yablonski
18:00-18:30 Ernst Buchberger
18:30-19:30 BREAK
19:30 DINNER
Thursday, March 26:
09:00-09:30 New ways of networking (Ole Bernsen)
Session 3A: Session 3B:
Speech Tools Information Services
09:30-10:00 Rolf Carlson Vera Semenova
10:00-10:30 George Kokkinakis Franciska de Jong
10:30-11:00 Louis Pols Paolo Baggia
11:00-11:30 BREAK
Workshops:
11:30-13:00 Training, Tools, Services
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
Session 4A: Session 4B:
Multilinguality Resources
14:30-15:00 John Tait Elena Paskaleva
15:00-15:30 Vangelis Karkaletsis Ryszard Gubrynowicz
15:30-16:00 Antonio Rubio Kiril Ribarov
16:00-16:30 Eric Gaussier Kyriakos Sgarbas
16:30-17:00 BREAK
Workshops:
17:00-19:00 Multilinguality, Resources
19:00-20:00 BREAK
20:00 BANQUET
Friday, March 27:
Session 5A: Session 5B: Session 5C:
Eastern Europe Topical Workshop Synthesis
09:00-09:30 Eastern Europe Walter Daelemans (only for workshop
09:30-10:00 (Steven Krauwer) Gabriel Lopes reporters)
10:00-10:30 BREAK
Session 6:
10:30-11:30 Workshop Reports
- Training
- Tools
- Multilinguality
- Services
- Resources
11:30-12:30 ELSNET Meeting
12:30-13:00 Summing up
13:00 Closing
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
LIST OF PAPERS:
- Niels Ole Bernsen:
- "ELSNET in Wonderland"
- Joana Lipeikiene and Laimutis Telksnys:
- "Lithuania on the Way to the Multilingual
Information Society"
- Dan Tufis:
- "Electronic Courses: Towards Unified Curricula in Language
and Speech Technology Education"
- Serge A. Yablonsky:
- "Development of a Computer Assisted Russian Language Learning
System on the ELSNET WWW Server"
- Ernst Buchberger:
- "Electronic NLP Courses -- Facts and Prospects"
- Rolf Carlson, Bjorn Granstrom, Joakim Gustafson,
Erland Levin and Kare Sjolander:
- "Hands-on Speech Technology on the Web"
- G. Kokkinakis and E. Dermatas:
- "A WEB Lab for demonstrating and experimenting with Speech
& Language Technology"
- Louis C.W. Pols, Jan P.H. van Santen, Masanobu Abe,
Alan Black, David House, Mark Liberman and Zhibiao Wu:
- "Easy Access via a TTS Website to Mono- and Multilingual
Text-to-Speech Systems"
- Vera Semenova, Christian Fluhr, Sergei Golubchik, Galina
Sushkova and Viktor Veselago:
- "What treasures are hidden in Russian scientific magazines
and how to find them?"
- Franciska de Jong:
- "Human Language as ELSNET Interlingua: Intelligent
Multimedia Indexing"
- Paolo Baggia, Giuseppe Castagneri and Morena Danieli:
- "Recent Results From a Field Trial of the ARISE Italian
System for Train Table Inquiries"
- John Tait:
- "A Position Paper on Multilingual Communication Systems"
- E.A. Karkaletsis and C.D. Spyropoulos:
- "Towards a User Friendly Information Society"
- Antonio J. Rubio and Pedro Garcia:
- "On the Elimination of Language Barriers in Electronic
Communications"
- Eric Gaussier:
- "Towards an Interactive Multilingual Environment"
- Ryszard Gubrynowicz:
- "The Polish Speech Database for Recognition and Synthesis
Systems"
- Kiril Ribarov and Petr Sgall:
- "The Micro and the Macro of Linguistic Description"
- Kyriakos N. Sgarbas, Nikos D. Fakotakis and George K. Kokkinakis:
- "WATCHER: An Intelligent Agent for Automatic Extraction of
Language Resources from the Internet"
- Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch, Jakub Zavrel,
Sabine Buchholz and Bertjan Busser:
- "Rapid Development of NLP Modules with Memory-Based
Learning"
- J.G. Pereira Lopes:
- "Overcoming Incomplete Lexical Information"
Steven Krauwer,
(steven.krauwer@let.uu.nl)
Utrecht University,
Utrecht
Institute of Linguistics OTS
Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands
tel +31 30 253 6050; fax +31 30 253 6000
[last change: 04-08-2000]