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Explore potential project scenarios for Indo-German collaboration in Language Technologies. Develop a tentative system architecture for multilingual information access. Brainstorm with experts for interdisciplinary research.
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Indo-German Workshop on Language Technologies Chennai 17-18, February 2004 Reinhard Karger, M.A. Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) GmbH German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D- 66123 Saarbrücken karger@dfki.de, http://www.dfki.de, http://www.lt-cc.org Tel.: +49 681-302 5253, Fax: +49 681-302 5341
Possible Project Scenarios for the Indo-German Cooperation in the Field of Language Technologies Natural Access to Internet Ressources Telephone Dialog Systems for Multilingual Information Access Multimodal Information Access using Speech and Gestures Multimodal Information Kiosk for Rural and Urban Population Cross-Cultural & Cross-Lingual Information Management Engineering of Knowledge Sources Inter-Cultural Issues in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Virtual Environments for Distance Education (E-Learning) Culturally Adapted Life-Like Characters for Literacy Programmes
Tentative System Architecture for Multilingual Information Access Phonetic Fuzzy Match Discourse Modeller Error Handler ASR (L1) Semantic Annotation Semantic Matching Engine Generator Synthesis LID Shallow Parsing MT of Passages ASR (Ln) LM (L1) Annotated Corpus (English) Multilingual Acoustic Models Semantic Web Ontology LM (Ln)
Application-Oriented Basic Research and Real-Life Applications Research, Development, Identification and Adaptation of Technologies for Symbolic and Stochastic Speech & Language Understanding General Tasks Project Management Data Collection Alignment & Annotation Software Engineering System Integration Modul Coordination Usability Studies Technology Evaluation Presentation / Communication Enabling Technologies Language Identification Speech & Gesture Recognition Language Understanding Information Extraction / Retrieval Dialog Processing Machine Translation Answer Generation Speech Synthesis Virtual Environments Hybrid Processing Approach to achieve broad Coverage and Robustness
Steps to Define a Joint Indo German LT-Project Brainstorming (17.-18. February 2004) Initial Group of Experts, Seed Funding Preliminary Definition of Project Goals (17.-18. February 2004) Domain of Discourse Interaction Paradigm (Scenario) Discussion of first Results (CeBIT, Hannover, 18.-24. March 2004) Pre-Proposal Feasability Study Adaptation of Project Goals Funding, Players & Teams Funding Periods, Agencies, Budget Full-Proposal Definition of Workpackages, Deliverables, Milestones Project Plan Definition of Evaluation Criteria Building the Consortium International Advisory Board