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

该项目支持2006年3月在摩洛哥拉巴特举行的美国-摩洛哥语言技术研究与教育研讨会。美国组织者是曼哈顿堪萨斯州立大学心理学系Gregory Monaco博士和大平原网络（GPN）研究与教育主任，以及摩洛哥拉巴特国立矿业工业学院（ENIM）语言、传播与计算机科学中心Abdelhadi Soudi博士。研讨会的研究目标是使参与的教师和学生熟悉目前正在解决的研究问题和研究专业知识，确定与英语，阿拉伯语和柏柏尔语处理相关的一系列共同研究问题，制定开发人类语言技术（HLT）应用的计划，并优先考虑和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（由不同学科和具有广泛经验的学生组成）有效教授自然语言处理的方法，确定每所大学对HLT联合学位的潜在贡献部分（课程），确定完成HLT项目所需的课程，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一个充满活力的研究和教育合作。在美国，迫切需要阿拉伯语资源和新方法的帮助，使阿拉伯语语音的处理更加充分。大平原网络凭借其传播和远程学习的优势，将吸引包括语言学家、人类学家和计算机专家在内的一系列参与者。该讲习班将培养和加强美国/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。两国研究生之间发展的工作关系将确保这项工作在最初涉及的机构之外得到推广。研讨会的长期成果包括教育交流、跨学科、跨文化的人类语言技术研究生培训和劳动力发展。由此产生的联合研究计划的其他影响可能是文化和经济方面的，因为它有助于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方面的地位，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提供自动翻译工具的基础。

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.