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Hong Kong, 7 October 2000

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Infrastructures for Global Collaboration

• Welcome

• Purpose of the workshop

• 7 Presentations (9:15 - 11:00)

• BREAK (11:00 - 11:15)

• 3 Presentations (11:15 - 12:00)

• Discussion (12:00 - 12:55)

• Conclusions (12:55 - 13:00)

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Why this workshop?

• Observations– NL and Speech processing require

collaboration, because of the complexity of the tasks and the crossing of language boundaries

– Free floating collaboration is possible, but is often facilitated by infrastructures that help people in teaming up

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What doe we mean by infrastructures?

• Every organised action with some continuity aiming at bringing people working in the same field together

• Different types, different possibilities:– open/closed (only for specific political,

thematic or linguistic communities)– top-down/bottom-up– funding/supporting/co-ordinating

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Should we create new infrastructures?

• Not our starting point!• Let us:

– make (and publish) a structured map of existing infrastructures

– investigate whether we can exploit them better (stretching them, linking them up)

– analyse whether additional infrastructures would be needed, and if so, how they could be implemented

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Our goals today

• Start creating a map of infrastructures (with special focus on Asia)

• Identify possible hooks for collaboration and synergies

• Make an initial analysis of the infrastructure situation

• Ensure that this is the start of an ongoing discussion in which the whole community can participate

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Presentations

• Language regions (up to 15 min. Each):– Japanese: Hiroshi Nakagawa (Japan)– Chinese: Chu-Ren Huang (Taiwan)– Chinese: Benjamin Tsou (Hong Kong)– Korean: Key-Sun Choi(S.-Korea)– Thai: Asanee Kawtrakul (Thailand)

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Presentations

• Thematical (15 min each):– Evaluation:Donna Harman (USA) – Resources: Antonio Zampolli (Italy)

• BREAK• Organisational:

– ISCA: Julia Hirschberg (USA)– ACL & others: Wolfgang Wahlster (Germany)– ELSNET & Europe: Steven Krauwer

(Netherlands)

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Contact info Steven Krauwer

ELSNET Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands

Email: steven.krauwer@elsnet.org Phone: +31 30 253 6039 Fax: +31 30 253 6000 WWW: http://www.elsnet.org