Corpora: LREC2002 Workshop on Portability Issues in Human Language Technologies

[Bojan Petek]

Portability Issues in Human Language Technologies

Post-conference workshop at LREC 2002;
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain;
Saturday, 1st June 2002, 14:30 - 20:00.


The Workshop Programme

14:30 - 14:50 Registration, and preparation of posters

Oral Session: Portability Issues in Human Language Technologies
14:50 - 14:55 Bojan Petek, Workshop Welcome and Introduction.
14:55 - 15:20 Julie Carson-Berndsen,
                      Multilingual Time Maps: Portable Phonotactic Models
for Speech Technology.
15:20 - 15:45 Jan Cernocky,
                      Units for Automatic Language Independent Speech
Processing.
15:45 - 16:10 Lori Lamel,
                      Some Issues in Speech Recognizer Portability.
16:10 - 16:35 Steven Bird & Gary Simons,
                      Seven Dimensions of Portability for Language
Documentation and Description.

16:35 - 17:00 Break

Oral Session: HLT and the Coverage of Languages
17:00 - 17:25 Bojan Petek,
                      Challenges and Oppportunities in Portability of Human
Language Technologies.
17:25 - 17:50 Salvador Climent, Miquel Strubell, Marta Torres & Glyn
Williams,
                      The Atlantis Observatory: Resources Available on the
Internet to Serve Speakers
                      and Learners of Minority Languages.
17:50 - 18:15 Kepa Sarasola,
                      Towards the Definition of a Basic Toolkit for HLT.


Poster Session
18:15 - 20:00 (7 poster presentations)
Dafydd Gibbon,
Ubiquitous Multilingual Corpus Management in Computational Fieldwork.

Hyo-Kyung Lee,
A Theory of Portability.

Fredrik Olsson,
A Requirement Analysis for an Open Set of Human Language Technology Tasks.

Jaume Padrell & Jose B. Marino,
Taking Advantage of Spanish Speech Resources to Improve Catalan Acoustic
HMMs.

Antonio Ribeiro, Gabriel Lopes & Joao Mexia,
Portability Issues of Text Alignment Techniques.

Matjaz Rodman, Bojan Petek & Tom Brondsted,
SPE Based Selection of Context Dependent Units for Speech Recognition.

Frieda Steurs,
VIPTerm: The Virtual Terminology Information Point for the Dutch Language. A
Supranational Project on Terminology Documentation and Resources.