11.1482, FYI: Course - Language Technologies

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Subject: 11.1482, FYI: Course - Language Technologies

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Date:  Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:43:29 +0200
From:  toni.badia at trad.upf.es, roser.sauri at trad.upf.es
Subject:  Course - Lang Technologies: Machine Translation & Speech Processing

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Date:  Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:43:29 +0200
From:  toni.badia at trad.upf.es, roser.sauri at trad.upf.es
Subject:  Course - Lang Technologies: Machine Translation & Speech Processing

Course: LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES. MACHINE TRANSLATION AND SPEECH PROCESSING.

12.-14. July 2000
Menéndez Pelayo International University
Barcelona

Director
       Marsal Gavaldà
       School of Computer Science
       Carnegie Mellon University

Secretary
       Toni Badia
       Computational Linguistics Professor
       University Pompeu Fabra

Since we are living in the information era and humane language is the
most natural manner for us to communicate, language technologies have
adquired a fundamental role. Exponential increasing of computers
capacity, as well as advances in Computational Linguistics and Artificial
Intelligence in the last decades have fostered the achievement of old
dreams like universal translators or "electronic secretaries" that
understand and execute orders.

The course offers, by means of several speeches and round-table
discussions with experts, a concrete vision of the fundamental areas
concerning language technologies: speech recognition and generation, NLP
and MT. If you ever wondered how computers "understand" humane language,
you should let this course help you discovering it.

For further information, have a look at
http://www.cuimpb.es/gavald-c.html
(information in Spanish or Catalan)

We would thank you to forward this piece of information to interested
people.

WWW: http://www.cuimpb.es
Info: marti.quixal at iula.upf.es


COURSE PROGRAMME

 Wednesday, July 12th
  9.00
      Openning
  9.30
      Speech Generation
      Alan Black
      Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburg
 11.00
      Break
 11.15
      Demonstrations:
      Speech Generation
 12.45
      Demonstrations:
      Speech Recognition

(Lunch break)

 15.45
      Natural Language Processing (I):
      "Morpho-syntactic Analysis and Tagging"
      Horacio Rodríguez
      Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

 16.45
      Natural Language Processing (II):
      "Syntactic Analysis and Tagging"
      Sergi Balari
      Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
 17.45
      Break

 Thursday, July 13th

  9.30
      Natural Language Processing (III):
      "Semantic Analysis and Discourse"
      Hans Kamp
      Universität Stuttgart

 10.30
      Machine Translation (I):
      "Strategies"
      Arturo Trujillo

 11.30
      Break

 11.45
      Machine Translation (II):
      "Universal Networking Language as an Interlingua"
      Hiroshi Uchida
      Institute of Advanced Studies
      The United Nations University. Japan

 12.45
      Machine Translation (III):
      "Complete MT Systems"
      Gabriel Amores
      Universidad de Sevilla

 15.30
      Demonstrations:
      Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation:
      Segre, El Periódico de Catalunya, Diari Oficial de la Generalitat, etc.
      (daily newspapers which are translated into Catalan or Spanish
      through an MT System)

 18.30
      Break

 19.30
      Discussion:

      "Administration and Linguistic Engeneering"
      Paricipants:
      Hans Kamp
      Hiroshi Uchida
      F. Marcos-Marín
      Instituto Cervantes
      Núria Bel
      Universitat de Barcelona

 Friday, July 14th

  9.00
      Speech Recognition (I):
      "Speech production, perception and codification"
      Alex Waibel
      Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburg

  10.00
      Speech Recognition (II):
      "Decodification of the acoustic signal"
      José Mariño
      Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

  11.00
      Break

  11.15
      Speech Recognition (III):
      "Complete Systems"
      Alex Waibel

  12.00
      Discussion:
      "Language, natural languages, technologies and
      social needs"
      (Pending)

 13.00
      Closing Session:
      "Language and Knowledge City"
      Joan Clos
      Mayor of the City of Barcelona


WWW: http://www.cuimpb.es
Info: marti.quixal at iula.upf.es


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