PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Bente Maegaard, ELRA President
(<mailto:bente@cst.dk>bente@cst.dk) Khalid Choukri, ELRA
CEO (<mailto:choukri@elda.org>choukri@elda.org)
To celebrate ELRA 10th anniversary, a 2-day workshop dedicated to Human
Language Technologies (HLT) Evaluation will be held in Malta on December
1st and 2nd.
In organizing this workshop, ELRA, whose main missions over the past decade
have been to promote language resources for the HLT sector, and to promote
evaluation language engineering technologies, intends to bring together the
HLT Evaluation key players to discuss the HLT evaluation from various
perspectives: general principles and purposes, technologies, current
evaluation projects (past and on-going), worldwide initiatives, etc. All
the sessions of the full event are described in the preliminary Workshop
programme (<file:///www.elra.info>www.elra.info). The main objective of
the workshop is to allow a fruitful brainstorming on the HLT evaluation
starting from what is being done today and what should be done better,
differently, etc. All sectors of HLT will be addressed (speech
technologies, machine translation and speech to speech translation,
information retrieval/filtering, multimodal interfaces, etc.).
The number of participants will be limited to 50 to make the event very
productive.
Among the speakers who have confirmed their participation are: Nick
Campbell, Jean Carletta, Christian Fluhr, Dafydd Gibbon, Tony Hartley,
Harald Höge, Maghi King, Gianni Lazzari, Joseph Mariani, Keith Miller,
Patrick Paroubek, Carol Peters, Martin Rajman, Gregor Thumair, and European
Commission representatives.
The workshop will start on Thursday December, 1st at 09:00 and close on
Friday December, 2nd at 15:45.
It will take place at the Victoria Hotel in Sliema (Malta). For all venue
details, please contact Helene Mazo.
*** About ELRA ***
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit making
organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the mission
of providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human
Language Technologies (HLT). For a decade now, ELRA has been participating
in the development of HLT among the players on national, European and
international levels.
To find more about ELRA, please visit our web site:
<http://www.elra.info/>www.elra.info
Helene Mazo, <mailto:mazo@elda.org>mazo@elda.org
+ 33 1 43 13 33 34
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