This page provides the list of all the keynote speakers who have given a speech at the LREC conference. When available, the link to display or download the speech is provided.
- Jaime Carbonell, Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University: MT and Resource Collection for Low- Density Languages
- Ralf Steinberger, European Commission, Joint Research Centre: Challenges and Solutions for Multilingual Text Mining
- Ray Fabri, Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta: Maltese at the Crossroads of Technological Developments (Invited speaker)
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates: The Web as a Semantic Source (pdf file, 4MB)
- Julia Hirschberg: Detecting Deceptive Speech: Requirements, Resources and Evaluation (pdf file, 128KB)
- Enrico Motta: Language Technologies and the Evolution of the Semantic Web (pdf file, 635KB)
- Noriko Kando: Evaluation of Information Access Technologies with Asian Languages at NTCIR Workshop (pdf file, 386KB)
- Eduard Hovy: Toward Semantic Corpora: Creating Concepts from Words via Senses, and Storing them in an Ontology (pdf file, 249KB)
- Jean Carletta: Unleashing the killer corpus: experiences in creating the multi-everything AMI Meeting Corpus (pdf file, 442KB)
- Junichi Tsujii: Thesaurus or logical ontology, which do we need for mining text? (pdf file, 473KB)
- Marilyn Walker: Can We Talk? Prospects for Automatically Training Spoken Dialogue Systems (pdf file, 228KB)
- Nick Campbell: Getting to the Heart of the Matter; Speech is more than just the Expression of Text or Language (pdf file, 238KB)
- Gregor Thurmair: Multilingual Content Processing (pdf file, 388KB)
- Kishore Papineni: Machine Translation Evaluation: N-grams to the Rescue (pdf file, 52KB)
- Mark T. Maybury: Multimodal Systems, Resources and Evaluation (pdf file, 489KB)
- James Pustejovsky: Creating Domain-specific Information Servers (pdf not available)
- Gianni Lazzari: Speech to Speech Translation: Present and Future Challenges (pdf not available)
- Salim Roukos: Next Generation Natural Language Applications (pdf file not available)
- Alan K. Melby & Klaus-Dirk Schmitz: Terminology Standards – Help for the Terminology Community (abstract) (pdf file, 13KB)
- Alex Waibel: Meeting Recognition and Tracking (abstract) (pdf file, 12KB)
- Stephen Richardson: The Evolution of an NLP System (abstract) (pdf file, 15KB)
For this edition, the papers are not available in pdf version.
- Nicoletta Calzolari: An Overview on Written Language Resources in Europe: a few Reflections, Facts, and a Vision (Spoken & Written Language Resources in Europe)
- Harald Höge: Spoken Language Resources for Voice Driven Man Machine Interfaces, (Spoken & Written Language Resources in Europe)
- Margaret King & Bente Maegaard: Issues in Natural Language Systems Evaluation
- Donna Harman: The Text REtrieval Conferences (TRECs) and the Cross-Language Track
- Gregory Grefenstette: Problems and Techniques for Cross Language Information Retrieval
- Christian Dugast & Lori Lamel: Issues in Man-Machine Spoken Dialogues