9'3011'00: Topic Areas

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COCOSDA/WRITE Roadmap for Language Resources and
Evaluation in a Multilingual Environment

• 9.30-11.00 Topic Areas
• Introduction by Organisers
• Multimodality
• Nick Campbell
• Jean-Claude Martin
• Stelios Piperidis
• Speech-to-Speech
• Gianni Lazzari
• Industrial perspective
• Jan Odijk
• Terminology
• Pierre Zweigenbaum
• 11.00-11.30 coffee
• 11.30-13.30 Topic Areas Organisational
  structures
• Minority Languages
• Justus Roux
• Annotation

• Ontologies Semantic Web
• Report on work/goals/roadmaps of COCOSDA
  Oriental COCOSDA
• Dafydd Gibbon?? Khalid Choukri
• Slides from Chiu-yu Tseng Shuichi Itahashi ??
• Report on work/goals/roadmaps of WRITE Regional
  updates
• Nicoletta Calzolari Steven Krauwer
• Christopher Cieri
• Chu-Ren Huang
• Organisational structures Coordination
• Benjamin K Tsou
• Peter Wittenburg
• Christopher Cieri
• Khalid Choukri

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COCOSDA/WRITE Roadmap for Language Resources and
Evaluation in a Multilingual Environment

• 13.30-14.30 lunch
• 14.30-16.30 Evaluation, Planning Funding
• Evaluation Quality
• Noriko Kando
• Steven Krauwer
• Funding Agencies
• Xavier Gros (EC)
• Tatiana D. Korelsky (NSF)
• Joseph Mariani (France)
• Asian (??)
• Conclusions
• Nicoletta Calzolari
• Khalid Choukri
• Christopher Cieri
• Dafydd Gibbon
• Chu-Ren Huang

Report for Funding Agencies
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COCOSDA/WRITE Roadmap Conclusions Thematic
Priorities

• Data collection, more data, many modalities,
  varieties, ..
• languages need more coverage, need more data,
  costly, no single company can afford
• to support also basic linguistic description
  documentation
• BLARK entry-level Blarkette be proactive
• Annotation as a science systematise
• basic research on semantic annotation
• Levels of metadata
• Cross-mediality in multimedia content processing
• Knowledge across modalities
• Multilinguality, e.g. for cross-language info
  access
• Multilinguality across culture Pragmatic layer
  with cultural social aspects
• Translation technology to become an enabling
  technology

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COCOSDA/WRITE Roadmap Conclusions Thematic
Priorities

• Information access need better LRs coverage,
  richness, quality
• Intrinsic extrinsic evaluation combination
  needed
• Subjectivity,
• Community based ontology, domain-specific,
  multi-faceted
• Standardisation Sustainability of Standards
• Harmonisation of existing semantic LRs
• Distributed development in wiki style
• Dynamic named entity
• Language Identification
• ..

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COCOSDA/WRITE Roadmap Infrastructural/Political
Priorities

• Quality insurance measures, only relative to
  the task
• Evaluation infrastructure, central neutral store
  for descriptors, a validation wiki agency?
• Open source platforms, sharing, wiki-mode
• LR freely available
• Cross-disciplinarity
• Links with study of language linguists need of
  an infrastructure
• Join communities, cooperation, coordination
• Infrastructure/services for a broad community,
  also with linguists, humanities, getting LRT out
  of the domain of experts

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COCOSDA/WRITE Roadmap Infrastructural/Political
Priorities

• Wiki to facilitate networking
• Data, tools, standards for Linguistics, need of
  an infrastructure collaborate for
  interchangeable data
• Improve steering of research, also at
  international level
• Long term research
• Open up the field only large scale
  collaborations will help, not a competitive area,
  strategic plans to boost research
• National LRs HLT Centers need an umbrella
• International cooperation to be suggested to
  funding agencies
• Specific proposals from NSF
• LangNet in EU
• Talk to politicians