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

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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.