15.604 workshop: Towards a Roadmap for Multimodal Language Resources and Evaluation

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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 604.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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             Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:25:08 +0100
             From: Magali Duclaux <duclaux@elda.fr>
             Subject: ELRA News

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                      PROGRAM and CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
    Towards a Roadmap for Multimodal Language Resources and Evaluation
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                      An ELSNET workshop at LREC 2002
                      Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
                      Sunday, June 2 2002 (14:30 - 20:00)

    Aim of the workshop:
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    The aim of the proposed workshop is to bring together key players
    in the field of resources and evaluation in order to make a first
    step towards the creation of a broadly supported Roadmap for
    Language Resources, i.e. a broadly supported view on the longer,
    medium and shorter term needs and priorities. This activity
    should be seen in the context of ELSNET's other roadmapping
    activities (see http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap.html), which aim at
    developing a technological roadmap for the whole field of Human
    Language Technologies.
    The purpose of such roadmaps is to give the R&D community an
    instrument to identify opportunities for concertation of their
    activities and better exploitation of possible synergies between
    players all over the world.

    Scope of this workshop:
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    As there is no standard model for roadmaps for resources and
    evaluation available, we will narrow the scope of this
    roadmapping workshop to a specific sub-area: Multimodal Language
    Resources and Evaluation. This will make our discussions more
    focused and concrete, and it will also allow us to exploit the
    fact that this workshop will take place the day after the
    workshop dedicated to Multimodal Resources and Evaluation of
    Multimodal Systems (MREMS) in general.

    Provisional program:
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    Start End Action Title & Actor(s)
    14:30 14:45 Opening Introduction to this workshop
    (Steven Krauwer)

    14:45 15:15 Talk Summary of the MREMS Workshop
    (Mark Maybury)

    15:15 15:40 Talk Challenges and Important Aspects in
    Planning and Performing Evaluation
    Studies for Multimodal Dialogue Systems
    (Susanne Hllerer)

    15:40 16:05 Talk XML and multimodal corpus design:
    experiences with multi-layered stand-off
    annotations in the GeM corpus
    (John Bateman, Judy Delin,
    Renate Herschel)

    16:05 16:30 Talk Towards a roadmap for Human Language
    Technologies: Dutch-Flemish experience
    (Diana Binnenpoorte, Catia
    Cucchiarini, Elisabeth D'Halleweyn,
    Janienke Sturm and Folkert de Vriend)

    16:30 17:00 Break

    17:00 17:30 Talk Introduction to the plenary exercises
    (Steven Krauwer)

    17:30 18:30 Exercise Identifying priorities (All)

    18:30 19:30 Exercise Putting them on a timeline (All)

    19:30 20:00 Discussion Where to go from here
    (All & Steven Krauwer)

    20:00 Closing

    Recommended reading (preferably before the workshop):
    * ELSNET's First Roadmap Report
    (http://utrecht.elsnet.org/roadmap/docs/rm-bernsen-v2.pdf), edited
    by Ole Bernsen
    * ELSNET's Second Roadmap Report
    (http://utrecht.elsnet.org/roadmap/docs/rm-eisele-v2.pdf), edited
    by Dorothee and Andreas Eisele)

    Registration:
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    The registration fee for the workshop is 90 EURO for conference
    participants and 140 EURO for others. The fee includes two
    coffee breaks and the proceedings of the workshop.
    URLs:
    * Workshop: http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-lrec2002.html
    * Conference: http://www.lrec-conf.org

    Core Programme Committee:
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    * Steven Krauwer (ELSNET / Utrecht University)
    * Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI Saarbruecken)
    * Antonio Zampolli (Univ of Pisa)
    * Joseph Mariani (LIMSI, Paris)
    * Ulrich Heid (IMS Stuttgart)
    * Khalid Choukri (ELDA Paris)
    * Mark Maybury (MITRE)

    Contact point:
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    Steven Krauwer, ELSNET coordinator,
    UiL-OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, NL
    phone: +31 30 253 6050,
    fax: +31 30 253 6000,
    email: s.krauwer@elsnet.org

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    Magali Duclaux-Jeanmaire
    ELRA & ELDA, Marketing & Communication
    55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin
    75013 Paris (France)
    Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33
    Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30
    Web site: http://www.elda.fr/ or http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/
    LREC news: http://www.lrec-conf.org/
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