Conf: ELRA 10th anniversary HLT Evaluation Workshop in Malta

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:48:19 +0100
From: ELDA <info at elda.org>
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Contact:  Bente Maegaard, ELRA President 
(<mailto:bente at cst.dk>bente at cst.dk)                         
Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO (<mailto:choukri at elda.org>choukri at 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
(http://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 at elda.org>mazo at elda.org
+ 33 1 43 13 33 34

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