9.1116, Calls: COLING-ACL'98, Coling/ACL Workshop
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Subject: 9.1116, Calls: COLING-ACL'98, Coling/ACL Workshop
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:24:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Congres COLING-ACL 98 <coling98 at IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: COLING-ACL'98, LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:10:10 -0800
From: Eduard Hovy <hovy at ISI.EDU>
Subject: Coling/ACL Workshop on MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: report
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:24:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Congres COLING-ACL 98 <coling98 at IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: COLING-ACL'98, LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
COLING-ACL'98
LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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Avoid the line-ups and hassle of on-site registration!
Pre-register for COLING-ACL'98 before you come to Montreal via the
online registration form available on the conference Web site:
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca
Detailed instructions are provided on the registration form.
We look forward to seeing you in Montreal!
The COLING-ACL'98 Organizing Committe
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:10:10 -0800
From: Eduard Hovy <hovy at ISI.EDU>
Subject: Coling/ACL Workshop on MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: report
Coling-ACL '98 Workshop
MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT:
CURRENT LEVELS AND FUTURE ABILITIES
August 16, 1998
Universite de Montreal
Montreal/Canada
The Coling/ACL workshop on Multilingual Information Management is a
follow-on to an NSF-sponsored workshop held in conjunction with the
First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in
Granada, Spain (May 1998). The goal of the workshop was to consider the
recent history and likely near-term future of a number of research areas
pertaining to language that are related (but still semi-independent at
present). The conclusions have been gathered into a report, to be
submitted to the NSF, LE, and other funding agencies in Europe and North
America, for their consideration in setting funding policies and goals.
THE DRAFT REPORT IS NOW AVAILABLE AT
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/mlim/
At the Granada workshop, an international panel of invited experts
focused on a set of questions in an attempt to identify the most likely
and most effective future directions of computational linguistics research
- especially in the context of the need to handle multi-lingual and multi-
modal information.
The COLING workshop, a follow-on, has the aim of opening the discussion
to the computational linguistics community as a whole, to solicit the
comments, additions, feedback, and contributions of everyone.
TO REGISTER, CONSULT THE COLING/ACL HOME PAGE AT
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The development of natural language applications which handle multi-
lingual and multi-modal information is the next major challenge facing
the field of computational linguistics. Over the past 50 years, a
variety of language-related capabilities has been developed in areas
such as machine translation, information retrieval, and speech
recognition, together with core capabilities such as information
extraction, summarization, parsing, generation, multimedia planning
and integration, statistics-based methods, ontologies, lexicon
construction and lexical representations, and grammar. The next few
years will require the extension of these technologies to encompass
multi-lingual and multi-modal information.
Extending current technologies will require integration of the various
capabilities into multi-functional natural language systems. However,
there is today no clear vision of how these technologies could or
should be assembled into a coherent framework. What would be involved
in connecting a speech recognition system to an information retrieval
engine, and then using machine translation and summarization software
to process the retrieved text? How can traditional parsing and
generation be enhanced with statistical techniques? What would be the
effect of carefully crafted lexicons on traditional information
retrieval?
The workshop is organized as a series of discussion sessions, each one
devoted to one aspect of computational language, initiated by a report
of the discussions at the Granada workshop (a report summarizing the
discussions at Granada is available; see below). Enough time for
discussion has been scheduled. The discussion will focus on the
following fundamental questions:
1. What is the current level of capability in each of the major
areas of the field dealing with language and related media of
human communication?
2. How can (some of) these functions be integrated in the near
future, and what kind of systems will result?
3. What are the major considerations for extending these functions
to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information,
particularly in integrated systems of the type envisioned in (2)?
In particular, we will consider these questions in relation to the
following areas:
o multi-lingual resources (lexicons, ontologies, corpora, etc.)
o information retrieval, especially cross-lingual and cross-modal
o machine translation, of text and speech
o automated (cross-lingual) information extraction and summarization
o methods and techniques (both statistics-based and linguistics-based)
o speech recognition and synthesis
o multimedia communication, as well as language and speaker identification
o evaluation and assessment techniques for each of these areas
o Government policy for future funding
The initial findings of the report will form the basis of the discussion.
The draft report is now available at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/mlim/
Major points raised in the discussions will be recorded and included in
the report. We eagerly seek your feedback, comments, contributions, and
assistance, to make this report as comprehensive and as accurate as possible!
PROGRAM
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and overview
9:10 - 9:55 Cross-lingual and Cross-modal Information Retrieval
Moderator: Judith Klavans
9:55 - 10:40 Information Extraction and Automated Text Summarization
Moderator: Eduard Hovy
10:40 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Methods and Techniques
Moderator: Nancy Ide
11:45 - 12:30 Machine Translation of Text and Speech
Moderator: Bente Maegaard
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Multilingual Resources
Moderator: Martha Palmer
2:45 - 3:30 Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Moderator: TBA
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45 Evaluation and Assessment
Moderator: John White
4:45 - 5:30 Multimedia Communication and Language/Speaker Identification
Moderator: Oliviero Stock
5:30 - 6:00 Government: Development Policy and Funding
Moderator: Antonio Zampolli
THE REPORT
The outcome of the Granada and Montreal workshops is a report, originally
commissioned by the NSF, to be submitted to the NSF, LE, and other funding
agencies in Europe and North America.
THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE REPORT IS AVAILABLE AT
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/mlim/
We eagerly seek your feedback, comments, contributions, and assistance in
making this report as comprehensive and as accurate as possible!
ORGANIZERS
Robert Frederking
Center for Machine Translation
Carnegie-Mellon University
Schenley Park
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Tel: +1-412-268-6656
Fax: +1-412-268-6298
Email: ref at nl.cs.cmu.edu
Eduard Hovy
Information Sciences Institute
of the University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
Tel: +1-310-822-1511
Fax: +1-310-823-6714
Email: hovy at isi.edu
Nancy Ide
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0520 USA
Tel: +1-914-437 5988
Fax: +1-914-437 7498
Email: ide at cs.vassar.edu
Joseph Mariani
LIMSI-CNRS
BP 133
91403 ORSAY Cedex
France
Tel: +33-1-69-85-8085
Fax: +33-1-69-85-8088
Email: mariani at limsi.fr
Antonio Zampolli
ILC-CNR
Via della Faggiola 32
56100 Pisa
Italy
Fax: +39-50-556285
Email: pisa at ilc.pi.cnr.it
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Eduard Hovy
email: hovy at isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute
tel: 310-822-1511 ext 731 4676 Admiralty Way
fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html
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