CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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 will
* 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 are inviting a number of rapporteurs 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).
** NB: the invitation to act as a rapporteur is still open!!! **
** check the workshop site for details (and your reward) **
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
Please note that the selection of areas for the area reports is
tentative, and will depend on the actual areas covered by the
conference.
Time Activity [ Speaker(s) ]
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09:00 Opening and Introduction [ Steven Krauwer (ELSNET) ]
09:20 The ELSNET Roadmap [ Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI) ]
09:50 Area report 1: Language Resources
10:10 Area report 2: Parsing
10:30 BREAK
11:00 Talk 1: Why NLP should move into IAS
[ Victor Raskin, Sergei Nirenburg, Mikhail J. Atallah,
Christian F. Hempelmann, Katrina E. Triezenberg ]
11:20 Area report 3: Generation
11:40 Area report 4: Morphology and Syntax
12:00 Area report 5: Semantics
12:20 LUNCH
13:30 Talk 2: MEANING: A Roadmap to Knowledge Technologies
[ Eneko Agirre, German Rigau, Bernardo Magnini,
Piek Vossen, John Carroll ]
13:50 Area report 6: Information Retrieval and Extraction
14:10 Area report 7: Machine Translation
14:30 Area report 8: Multimodality
14:50 Area report 9: Dialogue and Discourse
15:10 Area report 10: Asian Language Processing
15:30 BREAK
16:00 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 will be most appealing to 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.
REGISTRATION AND OTHER INFORMATION
Registration details and other information can be found on the main
conference website:
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/
The URL for this workshop is
http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-coling2002.html
CONTACT
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
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