The aim of the proposed workshop is to bring together key players in the field of resources and evaluation in order to make a first step towards the creation of a broadly supported Roadmap for Language Resources, i.e. a broadly supported view on the longer, medium and shorter term needs and priorities. This activity should be seen in the context of ELSNET's other roadmapping activities (see http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap.html), which aim at developing a technological roadmap for the whole field of Human Language Technologies.
The purpose of such roadmaps is to give the R&D community an instrument to identify opportunities for concertation of their activities and better exploitation of possible synergies between players all over the world.
As there is no standard model for roadmaps for resources and evaluation available, we will narrow the scope of this roadmapping workshop to a specific sub-area: Multimodal Language Resources and Evaluation. This will make our discussions more focused and concrete, and it will also allow us to exploit the fact that this workshop will take place the day after the workshop dedicated to Multimodal Resources and Evaluation of Multimodal Systems (MREMS) in general.
| Start | End | Action | Title | Actor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:30 | 14:45 | Opening | Introduction to this workshop | Steven Krauwer |
| 14:45 | 15:15 | Interactive Talk | Summary of the MREMS Workshop | Mark Maybury |
| 15:15 | 15:40 | Talk | Challenges and Important Aspects in Planning and Performing Evaluation Studies for Multimodal Dialogue Systems | Susanne Höllerer |
| 15:40 | 16:05 | Talk | XML and multimodal corpus design: experiences with multi-layered stand-off annotations in the GeM corpus | John Bateman, Judy Delin, Renate Herschel |
| 16:05 | 16:30 | Talk | Towards a roadmap for Human Language Technologies: Dutch-Flemish experience | Diana Binnenpoorte, Catia Cucchiarini, Elisabeth D'Halleweyn, Janienke Sturm and Folkert de Vriend |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Break | ||
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Interactive Talk | Introduction to the plenary exercises | Steven Krauwer |
| 17:30 | 18:30 | Exercise 1 | Identifying priorities | All |
| 18:30 | 19:30 | Exercise 2 | Putting them on a timeline | All |
| 19:30 | 20:00 | Discussion | Where to go from here | All & Steven Krauwer |
| 20:00 | Closing | |||
The registration fee for the workshop is 90 EURO for conference participants and 140 EURO for others. The fee includes two coffee breaks and the proceedings of the workshop.
Steven Krauwer, ELSNET coordinator,
UiL-OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, NL
phone: +31 30 253 6050,
fax: +31 30 253 6000,
email: s.krauwer@elsnet.org