The Workshop Programme

 

Saturday, 1st June 2002

 

14:30

Registration, and preparation of posters

Oral Session: Portability Issues in Human Language Technologies

14:50

Workshop Welcome and Introduction

Bojan Petek,

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

14:55

Multilingual Time Maps: Portable Phonotactic Models for Speech Technology

Julie Carson-Berndsen,

University College Dublin, Ireland

15:20

Units for Automatic Language Independent Speech Processing

Jan Černocký,

Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

15:45

Some Issues in Speech Recognizer Portability

Lori Lamel,

LIMSI-CNRS, France

16:10

Seven Dimensions of Portability for Language Documentation and Description

Steven Bird* and Gary Simons**,

* Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, USA

** SIL International, USA

16:35  

Break

Oral Session: HLT and the Coverage of Languages

17:00

Challenges and Opportunities in Portability of Human Language Technologies

Bojan Petek,

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

17:25

The Atlantis Observatory:

Resources Available on the Internet to Serve Speakers and Learners of Minority Languages

Salvador Climent*, Miquel Strubell*, Marta Torres*, and Glyn Williams**

*Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

**Foundation for European Research, Wales, Great Britain

17:50

Towards the Definition of

a Basic Toolkit for HLT

Kepa Sarasola,

University of the Basque Country, Spain

18:15  

 

Poster Session

Ubiquitous Multilingual Corpus Management in Computational Fieldwork

Dafydd Gibbon,

Universität Bielefeld, Germany

A Theory of Portability

Hyo-Kyung Lee,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

A Requirement Analysis for an Open Set of Human Language Technology Tasks

Fredrik Olsson,

Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

Taking Advantage of Spanish Speech Resources to Improve Catalan Acoustic HMMs

Jaume Padrell and José B. Mariño,

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Portability Issues of Text Alignment Techniques

António Ribeiro, Gabriel Lopes and

João Mexia,

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

SPE Based Selection of Context Dependent Units for Speech Recognition

Matjaž Rodman*, Bojan Petek* and Tom Brøndsted**

*University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

**Center for PersonKommunikation (CPK), Aalborg University, Denmark

VIPTerm: The Virtual Terminology Information Point for the Dutch Language. A Supranational Project on Terminology Documentation and Resources.

Frieda Steurs,

Lessius Hogeschool, Belgium

20:00  

End