1. June 18 2002ELSNET Review1 A Roadmap for Computational Linguistics Steven Krauwer ELSNET / Utrecht University (NL)

2. June 18 2002ELSNET Review2 Overview What is ELSNET What is a roadmap Our approach Today’s workshop Today’s programme

3. June 18 2002ELSNET Review3 What is ELSNET European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies (ca 135 academic and industrial members) Funded by the European Commission Created in 1991 Objectives –Bringing together the Language and Speech Communities –Bringing together Academia and Industry –Bringing together Langauge and Speech Communities world-wide

4. June 18 2002ELSNET Review4 How does it work (1) NOT by doing or funding research By facilitating research, e.g. –Training actions, e.g. summer schools curriculum development –Info dissemination, e.g. Web: www.elsnet.org, www.hltcentral.orgwww.hltcentral.org Quarterly newsletter Mailing lists

5. June 18 2002ELSNET Review5 How does it work (2) Bringing parties together Directories of experts and organisations Strategic workshops Actions in the fields of –Resources –Evaluation –Standards Roadmapping

6. June 18 2002ELSNET Review6 What is a roadmap A broadly supported view of where our field is going (research, technology, market) Which should help us (= researchers, developers, providers, funders) to –Identify main challenges –Concentrate efforts –Set intermediate milestones –Measure progress

7. June 18 2002ELSNET Review7 Our approach See Hans Uszkoreit’s talk Done so far (www.elsnet.org/roadmap.html): –Internal workshop (report in proceedings) –Workshop at ACL/EACL2002 (KM) (same) –Workshop at MT Summit 2001 (MT) –Workshop at TMI 2002 (MT) –Workshop at LREC 2002 (Multimodal Resources)

8. June 18 2002ELSNET Review8 Today’s workshop Focus on CL (i.e. more research than applications) Mix of submitted talks and invited area reports Goal: –identify research directions emerging from this conference for a number of subareas –identify the main challenges and milestones –suggest things we can do to make the future happen sooner Results: published on the web and integrated in the roadmap