ITR/IM+PE+SY: Summer Workshops on Human Language Technology: Integrating Research and Education

Investigator(s):

Frederick Jelinek (PI) ; William Byrne (Co-PI) ; Jason Eisner (Co-PI) ; Sanjeev Khudanpur (Co-PI) ; David Yarowsky (Co-PI)

Sponsor:

Johns Hopkins University, MD 21218 4105168668

Start Date/Expiration Date

2001-10-01 to 2006-09-30 (amended 2005-07-15)

Awarded Amount to Date:

$3,576,853

Abstract: We propose to organize yearly, intensive six-week research workshops at Johns Hopkins University, focusing on Language Engineering, including the mutually related areas of automatic speech recognition and synthesis, natural language processing, machine translation, information extraction and summarization. Applications of language engineering techniques to other domains such as language instruction or bioinformatics will also be appropriate workshop topics. These workshops will bring together teams of leading professionals and graduate and undergraduate students in a cooperative effort to advance the state of the art. The first goal of the proposed workshop series is to establish new research directions in Language Engineering. The second goal is to attract students to the field and to offer them an intensive hands-on mentored research education. The third is to engender extensive cross-fertilization between researchers distributed across industrial, academic and government institutions, forging intensive links in the 6-week summer period and offering a shared research environment for follow-on collaborative work. To ensure that the projects address current problems in the state of the art, each year an open call for workshop project proposals will be issued to researchers in the worldwide language engineering community. The proposals received will be evaluated competitively at planning meetings held each year. The meetings will draw together project proponents, government representatives, and experts from related fields to assess the viability and promise of the proposals and to identify three candidate projects for the summer workshop. Throughout this process of soliciting proposals and recruiting the personnel to carry them out, we will make a diligent attempt to include researchers from underrepresented institutions and communities.

NSF Org:

IIS - Division of Information & Intelligent Systems

Award Number:

0121285

Award Instrument:

Continuing grant

Program Manager:

Ephraim P. Glinert
IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems
CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering

NSF Program(s):

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARC, ITR MEDIUM (GROUP) GRANTS

Field Application(s):

Information Systems

Program Reference Code(s):

ADVANCED SOFTWARE TECH & ALGOR, 9216
BASIC RESEARCH & HUMAN RESORCS, 9218
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, 1655
RES EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD-SUPPLT, 9251

Program Element Code(s):

1640
ITR MEDIUM (GROUP) GRANTS, 1687
, T010
, W284
, V928
, V519
, V060
, V054
, T025