Scientific Community On-Site Assessment Workshop for Robust Intelligence

美国国家科学基金会目前主办了一系列关于人类语言技术和强健智能的夏季密集研究研讨会，由约翰·霍普金斯大学组织和主办。这些研讨会展示了一种相对独特的互动同行审查、动态专家团队生成、通过浓缩而异常密切的协作环境和密集的学生指导来加速研究的模式。科学界现场评估讲习班(OSAW)将于2008年7月30日至31日举行，以审查和改进这一模式，并调查将其扩展到新科学学科的可能性。在OSAW期间，一个由专家研究界利益攸关方组成的小组观察当前的夏季讲习班进程，约谈参与者，听取关于先前同行审查、选题和研究小组招募程序的详细简报，并就这些目标达成结论并提出建议。OSAW讲习班将通过以下方式促进科学进步：(1)改进现有的由国家科学基金会赞助的密集夏季讲习班系列，该系列已有300多名国际参与者参加，并促成数百种同行评议的出版物和重大科学创新；(2)OSAW达成的见解和结论，特别是关于夏季讲习班采用的互动同行审评和密集指导程序，有可能为国家科学基金会和其他组织采用的其他同行审查和指导进程提供信息和提供想法；(3)禁止酷刑组织的建议将为将密集夏季讲习班模式扩展到其他领域提供路线图，这一模式有可能加速科学进步，并在人类语言技术领域实现独特的合作框架。

NSF currently sponsors an intensive summer research workshop series in human language technology and robust intelligence, organized and hosted by Johns Hopkins University. These workshops have exhibited a relatively unique model of interactive peer review, dynamic expert team generation, research acceleration via a condensed and unusually close collaboration environment and intensive student mentorship. A Scientific Community On-Site AssessmentWorkshop (OSAW) is being held on July 30-31, 2008, to review and and improve upon this model and investigate the potential for its extension to new scientific disciplines. During the OSAW, a team of expert research-community stakeholders observes current summer workshop processes, interviews participants, receives detailed briefs on prior peer-review, topic-selection and research team recruitment processes, and reaches findings and makes recommendations regarding these goals.The OSAW workshop will contribute to the progress of science by: (1) improving the existing NSF-sponsored intensive summer workshop series that has already engaged over 300 international participants and lead to hundreds of peer-reviewed publications and major scientific innovations, (2) the insights and conclusions reached by the OSAW, especially with respect to the interactive peer-review and intensive mentorship processes employed by the summer workshop, have the potential to inform and provide ideas for other peer-review and mentorship processes, such as utilized by NSF and other organizations, (3) the recommendations of the OSAW will provide a roadmap for the extension of the intensive summer-workshop model to other fields, with potential for the accelerated scientific progress and unique collaboration framework already realized by this model in human-language-technology fields.