coling acl workshop multilingual information management report coling acl 98 workshop multilingual information management current levels future abilities august 16 1998 universite de montreal montreal canada coling acl workshop multilingual information management followon nsf sponsored workshop held conjunction first international conference language resources evaluation granada spain may 1998 goal workshop consider recent history likely nearterm future number research areas pertaining language related still semiindependent present conclusions gathered report submitted nsf le funding agencies europe north america consideration setting funding policies goals draft report available http www cs cmu edu ref mlim granada workshop international panel invited experts focused set questions attempt identify likely effective future directions computational linguistics research especially context need handle multilingual multi modal information coling workshop followon aim opening discussion computational linguistics community whole solicit comments additions feedback contributions everyone register consult coling acl home page http colingacl 98 iro umontreal ca workshop description development natural language applications handle multi lingual multimodal information next major challenge facing field computational linguistics past 50 years variety languagerelated capabilities developed areas machine translation information retrieval speech recognition together core capabilities information extraction summarization parsing generation multimedia planning integration statisticsbased methods ontologies lexicon construction lexical representations grammar next years require extension technologies encompass multilingual multimodal information extending current technologies require integration various capabilities multifunctional natural language systems however today clear vision technologies could assembled coherent framework would involved connecting speech recognition system information retrieval engine using machine translation summarization software process retrieved text traditional parsing generation enhanced statistical techniques would effect carefully crafted lexicons traditional information retrieval workshop organized series discussion sessions one devoted one aspect computational language initiated report discussions granada workshop report summarizing discussions granada available see enough time discussion scheduled discussion focus following fundamental questions 1 current level capability major areas field dealing language related media human communication 2 functions integrated near future kind systems result 3 major considerations extending functions handle multilingual multimodal information particularly integrated systems type envisioned 2 particular consider questions relation following areas multilingual resources lexicons ontologies corpora etc information retrieval especially crosslingual crossmodal machine translation text speech automated crosslingual information extraction summarization methods techniques statisticsbased linguisticsbased speech recognition synthesis multimedia communication well language speaker identification evaluation assessment techniques areas government policy future funding initial findings report form basis discussion draft report available http www cs cmu edu ref mlim major points raised discussions recorded included report eagerly seek feedback comments contributions assistance make report comprehensive accurate possible program 9 00 9 10 welcome overview 9 10 9 55 cross lingual cross modal information retrieval moderator judith klavans 9 55 10 40 information extraction automated text summarization moderator eduard hovy 10 40 11 00 break 11 00 11 45 methods techniques moderator nancy ide 11 45 12 30 machine translation text speech moderator bente maegaard 12 30 2 00 lunch 2 00 2 45 multilingual resources moderator martha palmer 2 45 3 30 speech recognition synthesis moderator tba 3 30 4 00 break 4 00 4 45 evaluation assessment moderator john white 4 45 5 30 multimedia communication language speaker identification moderator oliviero stock 5 30 6 00 government development policy funding moderator antonio zampolli report outcome granada montreal workshops report originally commissioned nsf submitted nsf le funding agencies europe north america first draft report available http www cs cmu edu ref mlim eagerly seek feedback comments contributions assistance making report comprehensive accurate possible organizers robert frederking center machine translation carnegie mellon university schenley park pittsburgh pa 152133890 tel 1412 2686656 fax 1412 2686298 email ref nl cs cmu edu eduard hovy information sciences institute university southern california 4676 admiralty way marina del rey ca 902926695 tel 1310 8221511 fax 1310 8236714 email hovy isi edu nancy ide department computer science vassar college 124 raymond avenue poughkeepsie ny 126040520 usa tel 1914 437 5988 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