1999 Language Engineering Workshop for Students and Professionals: Integrating Research and Education (WS99)

IIS-9820687 Jelinek，Frederick；Khudanpur，Sanjeev&Amp；Byrne，William J.Johns Hopkins University，50万-12摩尔。在1999财年面向学生和专业人员的语言工程研讨会：整合研究和教育(WS99)中，这是一个为期一年的标准奖。在口头和书面交流中与人类用户互动的自动化系统将极大地提高生产率和程序可用性。这些系统将允许友好地访问信息服务，对于残疾人或在执行复杂任务时访问数据库至关重要。不幸的是，目前的技术不足以完成手头的任务，需要取得进展。必须大大增加在外地接受培训的现有人员的数量，必须找到解决长期存在的问题的办法。目前，培养有能力完成所需任务的学生的大学相对较少。顶尖的专业人员分散在各种工业、地方和政府机构，经常相互重复工作。将举办为期六周的语言工程研讨会，由学习专业人员和学生组成的混合团队将充分合作，推动最新技术的发展。专业人员通常是大学教授以及在广泛分布的地点工作的工业和政府研究人员。研究生和本科生将加入这些团队。本科生的参与不仅是一个教育机会，也是为了扩大语言工程领域对考虑攻读研究生的学生的吸引力。

IIS-9820687Jelinek, Frederick; Khudanpur, Sanjeev & Byrne, William J.Johns Hopkins University$500,000 - 12 mos. in FY991999 Language Engineering Workshop for Students and Professionals: Integrating Research and Education (WS99) This is a one-year standard award. Automated systems that interact with human users in spoken and written communication will greatly enhance productivity and program usability. These systems will allow friendly access to information services and are essential for people with disabilities, or for accessing databases while performing intricate tasks. Unfortunately, current technology is inadequate for the tasks at hand, and there is a need to make progress. The numbers of available personnel trained in the field must be vastly increased and solutions to long standing problems must be found. At this time, relatively few universities educate students capable of performing the required tasks. Leading professionals are scattered in various industrial, adademic, and governmental institutions, often duplicating each other's work. A six-week workshop on language engineering will be conducted in which mixed teams of leanding professionals and students would fully cooperate to advance the state of the art. The professionals would normally be university professors and industrial and government researchers working in widely dispersed locations. Graduate and undergraduate students will join these teams. The participation of undergraduate students is intended not only as an educational opportunity but also to broaden the appeal of the language engineering field amongst students considering graduate studies.