DFKI GmbH, 17.02.2004, R. Karger

Indo-German Workshop on Language Technologies

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

Chennai 17-18, February 2004

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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 AccessMultimodal Information Access using Speech and GesturesMultimodal Information Kiosk for Rural and Urban Population

Cross-Cultural & Cross-Lingual Information ManagementEngineering of Knowledge SourcesInter-Cultural Issues in Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

Virtual Environments for Distance Education (E-Learning)Culturally Adapted Life-Like Characters for Literacy Programmes

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Tentative System Architecture for Multilingual Information Access

Multilingual Acoustic Models

Multilingual Acoustic Models

Semantic Web

Ontology

Semantic Web

Ontology

Shallow Parsing

Shallow Parsing

GeneratorGenerator

MT ofPassages

MT ofPassages

SynthesisSynthesisSemanticMatchingEngine

SemanticMatchingEngine

ASR (L1)ASR (L1)

LIDLID

AnnotatedCorpus

(English)

AnnotatedCorpus

(English)

Semantic Annotation

Semantic Annotation

PhoneticFuzzyMatch

PhoneticFuzzyMatch

ErrorHandler

ErrorHandler

DiscourseModeller

DiscourseModeller

ASR (Ln)ASR (Ln)

LM (Ln)

LM (Ln)

LM (L1)

LM (L1)

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Application-Oriented Basic Research and Real-Life Applications

Enabling Technologies Language IdentificationSpeech & Gesture RecognitionLanguage UnderstandingInformation Extraction / RetrievalDialog ProcessingMachine TranslationAnswer GenerationSpeech SynthesisVirtual Environments

Research, Development, Identification and Adaptation of Technologies for Symbolic and Stochastic Speech & Language Understanding

General TasksProject ManagementData CollectionAlignment & AnnotationSoftware EngineeringSystem IntegrationModul CoordinationUsability StudiesTechnology EvaluationPresentation / Communication

Hybrid Processing Approach to achieve broad Coverage and Robustness

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Steps to Define a Joint Indo German LT-ProjectBrainstorming (17.-18. February 2004)

Initial Group of Experts, Seed FundingPreliminary 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-ProposalFeasability StudyAdaptation of Project GoalsFunding, Players & Teams

Funding Periods, Agencies, BudgetFull-Proposal

Definition of Workpackages, Deliverables, MilestonesProject PlanDefinition of Evaluation Criteria

Building the ConsortiumInternational Advisory Board