A visit to Stanford University, California, USA

访问美国加利福尼亚州斯坦福大学

• 批准号: EP/G010714/1
• 负责人: Steve Whittaker
• 金额: $ 2.43万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FG010714%2F1
• 关键词: visit; Stanford; University; California; USA

Following an extended series of meetings, Prof. Stanley Peters of Stanford University, has invited Whittaker and his research team to work with Peters at Stanford in April/June 2008. They will conduct joint research into intelligent extraction of information from recorded meetings. The planned work extends related, but non-overlapping research, already carried out by both groups (Kalnikaite and Whittaker, 2007, Purver et al., 2006, 2007, Tucker and Whittaker, 2006, Whittaker et al., 2007, in press). Aims:- There are currently multiple parallel multipartner research efforts in meetings analysis in the UK, EU, Canada and US (e.g. CALO , AMIDA , CHIL, ICSI). Meetings analysis is a major area for international research in language processing, HCI, speech research and vision processing. These research teams are using different techniques on slightly different datasets. We intend to conduct focused joint US/UK research involving key partners in two of these large projects, allowing us to determine where there are overlaps in effort.- We will explore such potential overlaps and new opportunities collaboratively through an exploratory concrete US/UK project to determine whether pen-based end-user annotations can be used to identify areas of interest in meetings, by evaluating existing corpora. Current techniques for identifying critical parts of meetings rely on semantic analyses of language data, and such analyses have not yet generated consistent results. Instead we plan to explore whether users' note-taking actions offer reliable indicators of when key information is discussed. Sheffield has already developed tools for collecting such end user annotations. We will work with Stanford using their techniques and algorithms to analyse a relevant corpus of annotated meetings to test this hypothesis.- More importantly, carrying out such focused collaborative research will allow us to identify overlaps in our larger research projects. This will allow us to generate an extended collaborative plan allowing better exploitation of others' work, avoiding current extensive duplication. - The visit should also raise the profile of UK meetings research in important US research groups, as Whittaker has been invited to give talks about this work at numerous leading research institutions in California.

经过一系列的会议后，斯坦福大学的 Stanley Peters 教授邀请 Whittaker 及其研究团队于 2008 年 4 月/6 月与 Peters 在斯坦福大学合作。他们将共同研究从录制的会议中智能提取信息。计划的工作扩展了两个小组已经开展的相关但不重叠的研究（Kalnikaite 和 Whittaker，2007；Purver 等人，2006、2007；Tucker 和 Whittaker，2006；Whittaker 等人，2007，正在出版）。目标：- 目前，英国、欧盟、加拿大和美国在会议分析方面有多个并行的多合作伙伴研究工作（例如 CALO、AMIDA、CHIL、ICSI）。会议分析是语言处理、人机交互、语音研究和视觉处理等国际研究的一个主要领域。这些研究团队在略有不同的数据集上使用不同的技术。我们打算开展有重点的美国/英国联合研究，涉及其中两个大型项目的主要合作伙伴，使我们能够确定工作中存在重叠的地方。-我们将通过一个探索性的具体美国/英国项目，共同探索这种潜在的重叠和新的机会，通过评估现有语料库，确定基于笔的最终用户注释是否可用于识别会议中感兴趣的领域。当前识别会议关键部分的技术依赖于语言数据的语义分析，但此类分析尚未产生一致的结果。相反，我们计划探索用户的笔记行为是否可以提供可靠的指标来表明何时讨论关键信息。谢菲尔德已经开发了用于收集此类最终用户注释的工具。我们将与斯坦福大学合作，使用他们的技术和算法来分析相关的带注释会议语料库，以检验这一假设。-更重要的是，开展这种有针对性的合作研究将使我们能够识别更大的研究项目中的重叠部分。这将使我们能够制定一个扩展的合作计划，以便更好地利用他人的工作，避免当前的大量重复。 - 这次访问还应该提高英国会议研究在美国重要研究团体中的知名度，因为惠特克已被邀请在加利福尼亚州众多领先的研究机构就这项工作发表演讲。

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• DOI: 10.1145/1502650.1502659
• 发表时间: 2009
• 作者: Tucker S