Emerging trends: A tribute to Charles Wayne
Emerging trends: A tribute to Charles Wayne
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新兴趋势：向查尔斯·韦恩致敬
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Kenneth Ward Church
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作者：
Kenneth Ward Church
摘要查尔斯韦恩在20世纪80年代中期重新启动了对演讲和语言的资助，此前皮尔斯在ALPAC报告和“向何处演讲”中对演讲和语言的魅力和欺骗的批评引发了一场资金寒冬。韦恩引入了一个新的魅力和欺骗的证据，强调评估。在当时，没有其他类型的项目可以得到资助，至少在美国是这样。有人可能会说，韦恩已经如此成功，该计划不再需要他继续下去。这些天来，共享任务和排行榜已经成为语音和语言（以及视觉和机器学习）研究的常见场所。话虽如此，我担心社区可能不会欣赏它所拥有的，直到它消失。韦恩所做的不仅仅是比赛，而是以一种微妙的哥伦布式的方式。展望未来，政府资金正在被消费市场所掩盖。我们这些有研究要卖的人需要找到越来越多的方法来与潜在的赞助商保持联系，因为这是一个新的世界秩序。
Abstract Charles Wayne restarted funding in speech and language in the mid-1980s after a funding winter brought on by Pierce’s glamour-and-deceit criticisms in the ALPAC report and ‘Whither Speech Recognition’. Wayne introduced a new glamour-and-deceit-proof idea, an emphasis on evaluation. No other sort of program could have been funded at the time, at least in America. One could argue that Wayne has been so successful that the program no longer needs him to continue on. These days, shared tasks and leaderboards have become common place in speech and language (and vision and machine learning) research. That said, I am concerned that the community may not appreciate what it has got until it’s gone. Wayne has been doing much more than merely running competitions, but he did what he did in such a subtle Columbo-like way. Going forward, government funding is being eclipsed by consumer markets. Those of us with research to sell need to find more and more ways to be relevant to potential sponsors given this new world order.