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"