coling acl workshop multi lingual information retrieval coling acl 98 workshop multilingual information management current levels future abilities august 16 1998 universiti de montrial montrial canada coling acl workshop multilingual information management followon nsf sponsored workshop held conjunction first international conference language resources evaluation granada spain may 1998 international panel invited experts considered questions attempt identify effective future directions computational linguistics research especially context need handle multilingual multimodal information followon workshop intended open discussion computational linguistics community whole registration deadline july 1 register consult coling acl home page http colingacl 98 iro umontreal ca mainpage html workshop description development natural language applications handle multilingual 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 panels reporting outcome discussions granada workshop report summarizing discussions granada available coling acl workshop ample time discussion included 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 automated crosslingual summarization information extraction multimedia communication conjunction text evaluation assessment techniques areas methods techniques statisticsbased linguisticsbased parsing generation information acquisition etc speech recognition synthesis language speaker identification speech translation program committee khalid choukri european languages resource association charles fillmore university california berkeley usa robert frederking carnegie mellon university usa ulrich heid university stuttgart germany eduard hovy information sciences institute usa nancy ide vassar college usa mun kew leong national university singapore joseph mariani limsi cnrs france mark maybury mitre corporation usa sergei nirenburg new mexico state university usa akitoshi okumura nec japan martha palmer university pennsylvania usa james pustejovsky brandeis university usa peter schaueble eth zurich switzerland oliviero stock irst italy felisa verdejo uned spain piek vossen university amsterdam netherlands wolfgang wahlster dfki germany antonio zampolli istituto di linguistica computazionale italy organizers bob frederking center machine translation carnegie mellon university schenley park pittsburgh pa 152133890 tel 1 412 2686656 fax 1 412 2686298 email ref nl cs cmu edu eduard hovy information sciences institute university southern california 4676 admiralty way marina del rey ca 902926695 tel 1 310 8221511 fax 1 310 8236714 email hovy isi edu nancy ide department computer science vassar college 124 raymond avenue poughkeepsie new york 126040520 usa tel 1 914 437 5988 fax 1 914 437 7498 e mail ide cs vassar edu