US - Morocco Workshop: Language Technology Research and Education Program: Project Startup and Team-Building, March 2006, Rabat, Morocco

美国 - 摩洛哥研讨会：语言技术研究和教育计划：项目启动和团队建设，2006 年 3 月，摩洛哥拉巴特

• 批准号: 0538906
• 负责人: Gregory Monaco
• 金额: $ 3.85万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-10-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0538906&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Morocco; Workshop; Language; Technology

0538906MonacoThis project supports a U.S.-Morocco Workshop: Language Technology Research and Education Program, March 2006, Rabat, Morocco. The US organizer is Dr. Gregory Monaco, Department of Psychology, Kansas State University, Manhattan and Director for Research and Education, Great Plains Network (GPN) and Dr. Abdelhadi Soudi, Center for Languages, Communication and Computer Science, Ecole Nationale de L'Industrie Minerale (ENIM), Rabat, Morocco. The workshop's research goals are to enable participating faculty and students to familiarize themselves with research problems currently being tackled, and with research expertise, to identify a common set of research problems related to the processing of English, Arabic, and Berber, to make plans to develop Human Language Technology (HLT) applications, and to prioritize and develop partnerships to tackle the set of problems. The educational goals are to enable participants to identify methodologies for effective teaching of Natural Language Processing to a diverse audience, consisting of a mix of students in various disciplines and with a wide range of experiences, to identify potential contributory components (courses) from each university towards a joint degree in HLT, to identify needed courses to complete a program in HLT, and to develop a plan for implementing the joint HLT curriculum. The proposed workshop fits into a larger plan to create a vibrant research and education collaboration between institutions of higher education in the two countries. There is a pressing need in the US for help with Arabic language resources and new approaches to making the processing of Arabic speech more adequate. The Great Plains Network, with its strengths in dissemination and distance learning, will bring in a range of participants, including linguists, anthropologists, and computational experts. The workshop will cultivate and strengthen working relationships between US/GPN and Moroccan researchers and increase cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity. Working relationships developed among graduate students from both countries will assure that the effort is propagated beyond the initial institutions involved. Longer-term outcomes of the workshop include educational exchange, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural training of Human Language Technology graduate students, and workforce development. Additional impacts of the resulting joint research program are likely to be both cultural and economic by assisting in safeguarding linguistic and cultural diversity, by strengthening the position of Arabic and other local dialects in linguistics and language technology, by easing entry of US companies into the Moroccan market and vice versa, by providing the basis for automatic translation tools for documentation and marketing material.

该项目支持美国-摩洛哥研讨会：语言技术研究和教育计划，2006年3月，摩洛哥拉巴特。美国组织者是曼哈顿堪萨斯州立大学心理学系兼大平原网络研究和教育主任格雷戈里·摩纳哥博士和摩洛哥拉巴特国家L工业学院语言、交流和计算机科学中心Abdelhadi Soudi博士。研讨会的研究目标是使参与的教师和学生能够熟悉目前正在解决的研究问题，并掌握研究专业知识，确定与英语、阿拉伯语和柏柏尔语处理相关的一组常见研究问题，制定开发人类语言技术(HLT)应用程序的计划，并确定优先事项并发展合作伙伴关系来解决这些问题。教育目标是使参与者能够确定向不同受众有效教授自然语言处理的方法，包括不同学科和具有广泛经验的学生的组合，确定每所大学向HLT联合学位的潜在贡献部分(课程)，确定完成HLT计划所需的课程，并制定实施HLT联合课程的计划。拟议中的研讨会符合一个更大的计划，即在两国高等教育机构之间建立充满活力的研究和教育合作。美国迫切需要阿拉伯语资源方面的帮助，以及使阿拉伯语语音处理更充分的新方法。大平原网络凭借其在传播和远程学习方面的优势，将吸引包括语言学家、人类学家和计算专家在内的一系列参与者。研讨会将培养和加强美国/GPN和摩洛哥研究人员之间的工作关系，并提高跨文化意识和敏感性。在两国研究生之间建立的工作关系将确保这一努力传播到最初涉及的机构之外。研讨会的长期成果包括教育交流、跨学科、人类语言技术研究生的跨文化培训和劳动力发展。由此产生的联合研究计划的其他影响可能是文化和经济的，通过帮助保护语言和文化多样性，通过加强阿拉伯语和其他当地方言在语言学和语言技术中的地位，通过简化美国公司进入摩洛哥市场，反之亦然，通过为文件和营销材料的自动翻译工具提供基础。