SPEECH COMMUNICATION SCIENCES &
ADVANCED COMPUTING IN THE HUMANITIES

Socrates Thematic Network Projects, 4th year (Nov. 1, 1999 - Oct. 31, 2000).

Information for the joint JEWELS meeting at Northern College, September 29 - October 1, 2000

1. Background

The TNP on Speech Communication Sciences and the TNP on Advanced Computing in the Humanities (ACO*HUM) have defined specific dissemination and exploitation goals for their fourth project year.

The TNPs are cooperating on the following common goals:

New working groups have been formed (see below) where members of both networks are closely cooperating in order to merge results and arrive at specific dissemination and exploitation results.

A first meeting was held in Prague on March 17-19, 2000.  See the following documents:

The SOCRATES TNPs are also co-operating with ELSNET in such a way that the SOCRATES TNPs can profit from the substantial technical web support that the ELSNET III project can offer.  This support is provided under the HLT programme and it realised by the companies ARAX and VDIVDE.  Several meetings with VDIVDE have taken place.  See Gerrit's JEWELS page for details and reports on these contacts.

Besides ELSNET, also EACL and ISCA will be involved wherever appropriate.

Project co-ordinators:

2. Aims of the meeting

At this moment, there is good progress in the implementation of the Jewels web site, and on August 31 a Jewels delegation will visit VDIVDE-IT in Berlin to discuss this. If everything goes well we can expect the following preliminary results:
 
  • A skeleton Jewels website
  • Gerrit Bloothooft will have the permission and possibility to make any additions/changes in the website the working groups are proposing
  • Webdatabase on Courses and Sites
  • Webdatabase on Materials and Tools
This implies that Working groups are expected to generate their contributions to the site, and other TNP results, in September. Some contributions will be text or database entries to be published or put on the web, while others will be procedures and proposals for improvement, maintenance, etc.

At the Northern College meeting we will evaluate and review the status of the working group contributions. In addition to website issues, we will also have to review and finalize TNP results not directly related to the website. We expect that during the meeting there will be the possibility to contribute to and to test the Jewels site directly. This implies that the agenda for the TNP meeting is fairly open, but that we expect a 'working' attitude from the participants.

3. Practical information on the Northern College meeting, Sep. 29 - Oct. 1, 2000.

Venue

The entire meeting will be held at Northern College, where the participants will be lodged as well.

Registration

please contact Phil Green <p.green@dcs.shef.ac.uk> and let him know: Phil will then book a room for you and order meals.  Participants from an official partner institution in one of the two Socrates TNPs will get full coverage of travel, accommodation and subsistence cost for attending this meeting.  Travel (on cheapest fare basis) is normally booked and paid by the participant and reimbursed after the meeting.  Accommodation and meals will be reserved by the local contact and paid for directly by the Socrates TNPs.

4. WORKING GROUPS

    WG1: JEWELS INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND NAVIGATION

    (member list, tasks) prepares guidelines for JEWELS structure and navigation from the perspective of various users groups; keeps contact with ELSNET and VDIVDE

    WG2: INSTITUTIONS AND COURSES

    (member list, tasks) inventory of all sites in Europe with education in language and/or speech; JEWELS presentation with links to local pages; course search facilities

    WG3: EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND TOOLS

    collection of (commented) materials and tools (world-wide) in a database; web presentation of this database on JEWELS site

    WG4&5: RECOMMENDATIONS & POLICY DOCUMENTS + PROMOTION AND FACILITIES

    (member list, tasks) publication of existing documents and creation of  new policy documents aimed at decision makers, including: creation of webpages that promote the disciplines in language and speech (and the JEWELS site); inventory of funding resources

5. Timeplan for the meeting

Friday, September 29

12.30-14.00 Lunch (optional)
14.30-15.00 Break
15.00-16.00 Plenary, status of the project (Gerrit Bloothooft & Koenraad de Smedt)
16.00-18.00 Working groups
18.30 Dinner

Saturday, September 30

8.15-9.15 Breakfast
9.15-10.30 Working groups
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Working groups
12.30-14.00 Lunch (and tour of the premises)
14.00-15.30 Working groups
15.30-16.00 Tea break
16.00-18.00 Plenary, working group presentations
18.30 Coach leaves for Dinner

Sunday, October 1

 9.30-10.30 Working groups
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Working groups (closure)
12.30-14.00 Lunch (optional)

6. List of participants

Participants from an official partner institution in one of the two Socrates TNPs will get full coverage of travel, accommodation and subsistence cost for attending this meeting.  Travel (on cheapest fare basis) is normally booked and paid by the participant and reimbursed after the meeting.  Accommodation and meals will be reserved by the local contact and paid for directly by the Socrates TNPs. Below is the list of participants:
 
1 SCS Gerrit Bloothooft
2 ACO  Maddalena Toscano
3 ACO Koenraad de Smedt 
4 ACO Victoria Rosén
5 SCS  Florien J. van Beinum 
6 SCS Mick Perkins
7 SCS Sarah Howard
8 SCS Eva Wigforss
9 SCS María Lecumberri
10 ACO Andy Way
11 SCS Anders Eriksson
12 SCS Joaquim Llisterri
13 SCS Reijo Aulanko
14 SCS Anu Klippi 
15 SCS Anette Lohmander
16 SCS Mircea Giurgiu
17 ACO Karel Oliva
18 OWN Mike Rosner
19 ACO Gosse Bouma
20 ACO Arvi Hurskainen
21 SCS Georgeta Ciobanu 
22 SCS  Klaus Fellbaum
23 ACO Bill Black
24 SCS Jan Uhlir
25 SCS Bojan Petek
26 SCS Ruediger Hoffmann 
27 SCS Phil Green
28 ACO  Antonio Zampolli
29 SCS Mark Tatham
30 SCS Tom Brondsted
31 ACO Nicoletta Calzolari (uncertain)
32 OWN Representative of VDIVDE-IT (Jürgen Valldorf?)
33 ACO Jacques Souillot