1. COCOSDA/WRITE Roadmap for Language Resources and Evaluation
in a Multilingual Environment
: 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
: coffee
: 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
Khalid Choukri
COCOSDA/WRITE - LREC. Genova, 2006

2. COCOSDA/WRITE Roadmap for Language Resources and Evaluation
in a Multilingual Environment
: lunch
: 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
COCOSDA/WRITE - LREC. Genova, 2006

3. COCOSDA/WRITE - LREC. Genova, 2006
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
COCOSDA/WRITE - LREC. Genova, 2006

4. COCOSDA/WRITE - LREC. Genova, 2006
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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5. COCOSDA/WRITE - LREC. Genova, 2006
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 LR&T out of the domain of experts
COCOSDA/WRITE - LREC. Genova, 2006

6. COCOSDA/WRITE - LREC. Genova, 2006
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
COCOSDA/WRITE - LREC. Genova, 2006