1. DFKI GmbH, 17.02.2004, R. Karger Indo-German Workshop on Language Technologies Reinhard Karger, M.A. Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) GmbH German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D- 66123 Saarbrücken karger@dfki.de, http://www.dfki.de, http://www.lt-cc.org Tel.: +49 681-302 5253, Fax: +49 681-302 5341 Chennai 17-18, February 2004

2. DFKI GmbH, 17.02.2004, R. Karger Possible Project Scenarios for the Indo-German Cooperation in the Field of Language Technologies Natural Access to Internet Ressources Telephone Dialog Systems for Multilingual Information Access Multimodal Information Access using Speech and Gestures Multimodal Information Kiosk for Rural and Urban Population Cross-Cultural & Cross-Lingual Information Management Engineering of Knowledge Sources Inter-Cultural Issues in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Virtual Environments for Distance Education (E-Learning) Culturally Adapted Life-Like Characters for Literacy Programmes

3. DFKI GmbH, 17.02.2004, R. Karger Tentative System Architecture for Multilingual Information Access Multilingual Acoustic Models Multilingual Acoustic Models Semantic Web Ontology Semantic Web Ontology Shallow Parsing Shallow Parsing Generator MT of Passages MT of Passages Synthesis Semantic Matching Engine Semantic Matching Engine ASR (L1) LID Annotated Corpus (English) Annotated Corpus (English) Semantic Annotation Semantic Annotation Phonetic Fuzzy Match Phonetic Fuzzy Match Error Handler Error Handler Discourse Modeller Discourse Modeller ASR (Ln) LM (Ln) LM (Ln) LM (L1) LM (L1)

4. DFKI GmbH, 17.02.2004, R. Karger Application-Oriented Basic Research and Real-Life Applications Enabling Technologies Language Identification Speech & Gesture Recognition Language Understanding Information Extraction / Retrieval Dialog Processing Machine Translation Answer Generation Speech Synthesis Virtual Environments Research, Development, Identification and Adaptation of Technologies for Symbolic and Stochastic Speech & Language Understanding General Tasks Project Management Data Collection Alignment & Annotation Software Engineering System Integration Modul Coordination Usability Studies Technology Evaluation Presentation / Communication Hybrid Processing Approach to achieve broad Coverage and Robustness

5. DFKI GmbH, 17.02.2004, R. Karger Steps to Define a Joint Indo German LT-Project Brainstorming (17.-18. February 2004) Initial Group of Experts, Seed Funding Preliminary Definition of Project Goals (17.-18. February 2004) Domain of Discourse Interaction Paradigm (Scenario) Discussion of first Results (CeBIT, Hannover, 18.-24. March 2004) Pre-Proposal Feasability Study Adaptation of Project Goals Funding, Players & Teams Funding Periods, Agencies, Budget Full-Proposal Definition of Workpackages, Deliverables, Milestones Project Plan Definition of Evaluation Criteria Building the Consortium International Advisory Board