ITR/IM+PE+SY: Summer Workshops on Human Language Technology: Integrating Research and Education

ITR/IM PE SY：人类语言技术夏季研讨会：研究与教育相结合

• 批准号: 0121285
• 负责人: Frederick Jelinek
• 金额: $ 234.95万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-10-01 至 2008-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0121285&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; IM+PE+SY; Summer; Workshops; Human

We propose to organize yearly, intensive six-week research workshopsat Johns Hopkins University, focusing on Language Engineering,including the mutually related areas of automatic speech recognitionand synthesis, natural language processing, machine translation,information extraction and summarization. Applications of languageengineering techniques to other domains such as language instructionor bioinformatics will also be appropriate workshop topics. Theseworkshops will bring together teams of leading professionals andgraduate and undergraduate students in a cooperative effort toadvance the state of the art. The first goal of the proposed workshopseries is to establish new research directions in Language Engineering.The second goal is to attract students to the field and to offerthem an intensive hands-on mentored research education. The thirdis to engender extensive cross-fertilization between researchersdistributed across industrial, academic and government institutions,forging intensive links in the 6-week summer period and offeringa shared research environment for follow-on collaborative work.To ensure that the projects address current problems in the stateof the art, each year an open call for workshop project proposalswill be issued to researchers in the worldwide language engineeringcommunity. The proposals received will be evaluated competitivelyat planning meetings held each year. The meetings will draw togetherproject proponents, government representatives, and experts fromrelated fields to assess the viability and promise of the proposalsand to identify three candidate projects for the summer workshop.Throughout this process of soliciting proposals and recruitingthe personnel to carry them out, we will make a diligent attemptto include researchers from underrepresented institutions andcommunities.

我们建议每年在约翰霍普金斯大学组织为期六周的密集研究研讨会，重点关注语言工程，包括自动语音识别和合成，自然语言处理，机器翻译，信息提取和总结等相互关联的领域。语言工程技术在其他领域的应用，如语言教学或生物信息学，也将是合适的研讨会主题。这些研讨会将汇集领先的专业人士、研究生和本科生的团队，共同努力推进最先进的技术。本次研讨会的第一个目标是建立语言工程的新研究方向。第二个目标是吸引学生进入该领域，并为他们提供密集的实践指导研究教育。第三是促进分布在工业、学术和政府机构的研究人员之间的广泛交流，在为期6周的夏季期间建立紧密的联系，并为后续的合作工作提供共享的研究环境。为了确保项目能够解决当前最先进的问题，每年将向全球语言工程社区的研究人员公开征集研讨会项目提案。收到的提案将在每年举行的规划会议上进行竞争性评估。会议将汇集项目支持者、政府代表和相关领域的专家，以评估提案的可行性和前景，并确定三个夏季研讨会的候选项目。在征集提案和招聘执行人员的整个过程中，我们将努力吸纳来自代表性不足的机构和社区的研究人员。