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Decisions & Action Items. 7 August 2003. Observations. Great team (TEAM TIDES) Excellent progress Promising plans Lots of opportunities Good connections (ACE, EELD, TIA, …) Area Coordinators playing vital r ô les TEAM TIDES Newsletter (Doug => Allison). Decisions.
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Decisions & Action Items 7 August 2003
Observations • Great team (TEAM TIDES) • Excellent progress • Promising plans • Lots of opportunities • Good connections (ACE, EELD, TIA, …) • Area Coordinators playing vital rôles • TEAM TIDES Newsletter (Doug => Allison)
Decisions • Surprise Language Experiments => Readiness Experiments • NIST Score => BLEU4 (community standard) • Percent of Human for management(based on BLEU4)
Calendar -- TBD --Technical Area Meetings -- TBD -- Meetings of Area Coordinators Oct ACE Workshop Nov TDT Workshop Nov TREC Workshop Jun MT Workshop May HLT Workshop May DUC Workshop Jun Surprise Language Experiment Jul TIDES PI Meeting IFEs & TIA Experiments interspersed in above
Meet Deadlines (& follow instructions)
PI Action Items To help PM decide on budgets, explain to Director — 14 Aug Proposed site objectives (with costs) • Succinct statements of discrete objectives that site wishes to pursue in FY04 • Reasonable number of reasonably-sized objectives • In specified format ! Additional comments about those objectivesor entire TIDES program also welcome To help CACI prepare ARPA orders — 21 Aug Revised technical project summary (conforming to instructions, new insights)or note saying “No Change Needed” Proposed site objectives (with costs) • Succinct statements of discrete objectives that a site wishes to pursue in FY04 12 Aug Proposed objectives(conforming to instructions, examples) 13 Aug Revised technical project summary (conforming to instructions, new insights)or note saying “No Change Needed” 14 Aug Final recommendations concerning • TIDES program • Site rôle, budget Important
Format for an Objective On separate lines — • Site – PI: • Area: (one of D, E, S, T, I, L, or X) • Go/No-Go Milestone Addressed:(None, Translation, Headlines, Multiple Documents, Entities, HARD, New Events) • Title: (concise, meaningful) • Objective: • Brief elaboration • Comprehensible (and informative) to me or any member of TIDES community • Title + Elaboration ≤ 300 characters • Approximate cost (dollars)
UMass – Croft D HARD, New Event Language models for CLIR. Extend language modeling framework to support cross-language information retrieval. Evaluate using Chinese and Arabic with English queries. Also extend basic language modeling framework for higher quality mono-lingual retrieval. $xxx NYU – Grishman E None Discovery procedures for English information extraction. Refine procedure for unsupervised learning of patterns and combine with concept-class learner. Develop procedure for unsupervised learning of names and technical terms. $yyy Examples of Good Objectives
Technical Project Summary • Used for educating management & others, designing program, preparing ARPA orders • Instructions in message sent 25 May • Key points: • short, well-written • comprehensible to any DARPA program manager • clear top-level view • third person • impact with brevity
Address • Send all action items to: TIDES-Support@darpa.mil