On 7 and 8 December 1998, the fourteenth international Twente Workshop
on
Language Technology (TWLT14) will take place at the University of
Twente,
Enschede, The Netherlands. The topic of this workshop will be
"Language Technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval"
TWLT14 will focus on the increasingly important role of human language
technology in the indexing and accessing of written and spoken
documents,
video material and/or images, and on the role of language technology for
cross-language retrieval and information extraction. The workshop will
address the role of language and speech processing both in terms of
existing approaches and implementations, in terms of theoretical
foundations, and/or emerging directions of research.
Program:
Monday 7 December
09:00 Registration
10:00 Opening
Session 1: Cross-language IR
10:15 Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI (Multilinguality/MULINEX)
10:45 Paul Buitelaar / Klaus Netter, DFKI (MIETTA)
11:15 Break
11:30 Franciska de Jong / Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente
(Twenty-One)
12:00 David Hull, XEROX Grenoble (CLIR)
12:30 Lunch
Session 2: NLP, IE/IR and Multimedia
14:00 Arjen de Vries, University of Twente (Querying Multimedia
Databases)
14:30 Doug Appelt, SRI (NL+ IE)
15:00 Break + Demos
16:00 Paul van der Vet, University of Twente (Domain Modelling)
16:30 Karen Sparck-Jones, Cambridge University (NL+IR)
17:30 Drinks
Tuesday 8 December
Session 3: Video and Image Processing
09:00 Stanley Peters, Stanford University (Tools and methods)
09:30 Andres Salway/ Khursid Ahmad, University of Surrey (Video
Indexing)
10:00 Wim van Bruxvoort, VDA (subtitle processing/Pop-Eye/Olive)
10:30 Break
11:00 Istar Buscher, SWR (Euromedia)
11:30 Arnold Smeulders (Language and Image Processing)
12:00 Kees van Deemter (Picture Retrieval)
12:30 Lunch
Session 4: Speech retrieval
14:00 Martin Wechsler, ETH Zurich
14:30 Steve Renals, University of Sheffield (THISL)
15:00 Wessel Kraaij / Joop van Gent , TNO-TPD (Das+)
15:30 Break
16:00 Closing Session
The regular workshop fee is Dfl. 175,- and covers a copy of the
proceedings, lunches, coffee and tea during the breaks, and an informal
reception. Students may apply for a reduced fee.
The workshop secratariat can make hotel reservations.
More information on the workshop as well as a registration form can be
found
at http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/Conferences/twlt14.html
TWLT14 is organised in cooperation with the PARLEVINK-
project of the University of Twente by:
Klaus Netter - DFKI, Germany
email: netter@dfki.de
Franciska de Jong - University of Twente, Computer Science
Department
email: fdejong@cs.utwente.nl
Djoerd Hiemstra - University of Twente, Computer Science
Department
email: hiemstra@cs.utwente.nl
For further information please contact the organisers, preferably by
email, or otherwise via the workshop secretariat:
Department of Computer Science/PARLEVINK
University of Twente Phone: +31 53 4893680
P.O. Box 217, Fax: +31 53 4893503
7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands