1st December 2005 2nd December 2005
ELRA -  HLT EVALUATION WORKSHOP PROGRAM  - MALTA
DAY 1
1st December 2005
   
9:30
Introduction
Bente Maegaard
Khalid Choukri
ELRA President & CEO
• View the presentation (pdf, 60 KB, 14 slides)
9:45
Invited Speaker
Mats Ljungqvist
European Commission - Luxembourg
• View the presentation (pdf , 183 KB, 17 slides)
10:15
Towards HLT Evaluation at University of Malta
Mike Rosner
University of Malta
• View the presentation (pdf , 126 KB, 19 slides)
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
General Presentation on Evaluation
Margaret King
ISSCO Multilingual Information Processing Unit (TIM),
School of Translation and Interpretation (ETI)
University of Geneva - Switzerland
• View the presentation (pdf , 105 KB, 32 slides)
11:50
Evaluation principles and objectives (ISLE, EAGLES)
Keith Miller
The MITRE Corporation - USA
• View the presentation (pdf , 899 KB, 48 slides)
 
Evaluation methods for various types of technologies
12:25
Information Retrieval, Cross Lingual, Question/answering
Carol Peters
Coordinator of the CLEF initiative
Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione (IEI-CNR) - PISA - Italy
• View the presentation (pdf , 559 KB, 47 slides)

Further discussion by Christian Fluhr, CEA - France
• View the presentation (pdf , 30 KB, 7 slides)
13:00
Lunch
   
14:30
Text analysers - Text analysers (morphologies, syntax, ...)
Patrick Paroubek
LIMSI-CNRS - France
• View the presentation (pdf , 285 KB, 35 slides)
15:10
NLG Evaluation
Anja Belz
Senior Research Fellow  
Brighton University  
Ehud Reiter
Senior Lecturer
Aberdeen University
United Kingdom
• View the presentation (ppt , 308 KB, 35 slides)
15:45
Machine Translation
Tony Hartley
Centre for Translation Studies
University of Leeds - United Kingdom
• View the presentation (pdf , 74 KB, 19 slides)

Further discussion by Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO - Switzerland
• View the presentation (pdf , 48 KB, 8 slides)
16:20
Coffee break
16:50
Speech Synthesis
Nick Campbell
Chief Researcher, Cognitive Media Informatics,
Media Information Science Laboratories, ATR - Japan
• View the presentation (pdf , 57 KB, 27 slides)

Further discussion by Harald Höge, Siemens AG - Germany
• View the presentation (pdf , 13 KB, 3 slides)
17:25
Speech Recognition
Edouard Geoffrois
DGA/CEP
France
• View the presentation (pdf , 145 KB, 20 slides)
DAY 2
2nd December 2005
   
09:30
Speech-to-Speech translation
Gianni Lazzari
Interactive Sensory Systems Division
ITC-Irst Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica,
Trento – Italy
• View the presentation (pdf , 1091 KB, 110 slides)
10:00
Multimodal Interfaces
Jean Carletta
Senior Research Fellow
Human Communication Research Centre & Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
the School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• View the presentation (pdf , 433 KB, 27 slides)
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Evaluation purposes - Technological components
Gregor Thurmair
Linguatec GmbH, Language technologies
München - Germany
• View the presentation (pdf , 2,90 MB, 40 slides)
11:30
Evaluation initiatives
Representatives of DFKI, CELCT, ISSCO, ELRA, French Ministry of Research, LDC, CST
• CELCT  View the presentation (pdf , 55 KB, 13 slides)
• CST  View the presentation (pdf , 91 KB, 6 slides)
• ELRA  View the presentation (pdf , 34 KB, 8 slides)
• DFKI  View the presentation (pdf , 703 KB, 3 slides)
• French Ministry of Research View the presentation (pdf , 92 KB, 15 slides)
• ISSCO  View the presentation (pdf , 94 KB, 8 slides)
• LDC  View the presentation (pdf , 227 KB, 7 slides)
12:30
Lunch
   
14:00
Corpora/data for evaluation campaigns
Role of ELRA as the HLT evaluation institution
Khalid Choukri
ELRA CEO
Paris - France
• View the presentation (pdf , 96 KB, 23 slides)

LDC contribution to Corpora/data for evaluation campaigns
Christopher Cieri, LDC - USA
• View the presentation (pdf , 192 KB, 6 slides)
14:45
Wrap-up and future actions
Panel
 
Up