Ecole: CLARA Thematic training course on evaluation of Human Language Technologies

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:50:42 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

CLARA Thematic training course on evaluation of Human Language
Technologies
www.elda.org/clara/
26-29 November 2012, Paris, France

As part of the CLARA Marie Curie Initial Training Network, ELDA and
University of Copenhagen organize a four-day thematic training course on
evaluation of Human Language Technologies in Paris.

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Goal and Focus

For any HLT research effort to be successful, it is essential that it be
assessed through rigorous evaluations of the developed technologies.
This allows performance benchmarking and a better understanding of
possible limitations and challenging conditions.  The CLARA Thematic
training course on evaluation of HLT aims at providing both ESRs (Early
Stage Researchers) and ERs (Experienced Researchers) the background and
skills to use and implement state-of-the–art evaluation tools and
techniques for speech technologies, grammars and parsing, machine
translation and speech-to- speech translation, information
retrieval/filtering, multimodal interfaces, etc.).

The CLARA Thematic training course on evaluation of HLT will introduce
and describe some evaluation concepts (comparative evaluation versus
competition, technology evaluation versus usage/usability
evaluation). It will also describe the different types of evaluation and
how to ensure that evaluation does not kill innovative not-yet-mature
approaches.
Additionally, The CLARA Thematic training course on evaluation of HLT
will elaborate on the role of evaluation on the research progress, on
the need for a truly European infrastructure for HLT evaluation, on the
main reasons to promote an international dimension of the evaluation,
insisting on the multilingual issues.

Given the interdisciplinary nature of the workshop, the workshop will be
relevant for any ESRs/ERs who are involved in the development of
algorithms and systems for speech technologies, machine translation,
parsers, information retrieval, multimodal interfaces, etc.

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Invited Speakers

* Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France
* Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* Joseph Mariani, IMMI, France (to be confirmed)
* Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI, France
* Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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There is no participation fee for the CLARA thematic training course on
evaluation of Human Language Technologies but online registration is
mandatory.

Please register at: http://survey.elda.org/index.php?sid=67327&lang=en 
by November 23.

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