Workshop Proposal on Strategic Planning for an Academic/Industry Center for Language Technologies (Spring 2007, Washington DC metro area)

该奖项的目的是计划和举办一个为期两天的研讨会，邀请学术界、工业界和政府的代表参加，讨论在人类语言技术（HLT）领域建立工业界和学术界之间基于中心的合作伙伴关系的可行性。 虽然目前这一研究领域还没有这样的中心，考虑到语言学数据联盟的成功故事和有许多潜在的工业合作伙伴的事实，建立一个更好地理解如何创建一个中心的时机已经成熟，这个中心不仅是互利的，而且支持任何一个合作伙伴都无法单独完成的工作。 这种合作对于促进大学的卓越研究，同时提高美国HLT公司的知识产权质量非常重要。与会者正在开会制定一个战略计划，建立一个互惠互利的研究中心。一般来说，NSF的中心车辆需要行业的坚定承诺。本次研讨会将重点评估为其中两个项目建立合作伙伴关系的可行性：工业/大学合作研究中心和工程研究中心：合作伙伴关系在改革研究，教育和技术。 拟议活动的智力价值是讲习班规划所特有的。这样一个中心的更广泛的影响将是刺激大学的HLT研究，同时加强工业附属公司的知识产权。

The purpose of this award is to plan and hold a two-day workshopinvolving representatives from academia, industry, and government todiscuss the feasibility of developing a center-based partnershipbetween industry and academia in the area of human language technology(HLT). Although currently this research area does not have such acenter, given the success story of Linguistics Data Consortium and thefact that there are many potential industrial partners, the time isripe to build a better understanding of how to create a center that isnot only mutually beneficial, but supports work that simply could notbe done by either partner alone. Such collaboration would beimportant for stimulating research excellence at the university whileenhancing the quality of the intellectual property of US HLTcompanies. The participants are meeting to develop a strategic planfor building a mutually beneficial research center. Generally centervehicles at NSF require strong commitments from industry. Thisworkshop will focus on evaluating the feasibility of buildingpartnerships for two of these programs: Industry/UniversityCooperative Research Centers and Engineering Research Centers:Partnerships in Transforming Research, Education and Technology. Theintellectual merit of the proposed activity is specific to theplanning of the workshop. The broader impacts of such a center wouldbe to stimulate HLT research at the university, while enhancing theintellectual property of industrial affiliates.