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.
http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/Conferences/twlt14.html
Program:
Monday 7 December
09:00 Registration
10:00 Opening
Session 1: Cross-language IR
10:15 Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI
"Cross-language information retrieval: from naive concepts to
advanced applications"
10:45 Paul Buitelaar, Klaus Netter and Feiyu Xu, DFKI
"Integrating Different Strategies for Cross-Language Retrieval"
11:15 Break
11:30 Franciska de Jong and Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente
"Cross-language Retrieval: from design to implementation."
12:00 David Hull, XEROX Grenoble
"Information Extraction from Bilingual Corpora and its application
to Machine-aided Translation"
12:30 Lunch
Session 2: NLP, IE/IR and Multimedia
14:00 Arjen de Vries, University of Twente
"Mirror: Multimedia Query Processing in Extensible Databases"
14:30 Doug Appelt, SRI International
"An Overview of Information Extraction and its Applications to
Information Retrieval"
15:00 Break + Demos
16:00 Paul van der Vet, University of Twente
"Combining Linguistic and Knowledge-based Engineering for
Information Retrieval and Information Extraction"
16:30 Karen Sparck-Jones, Cambridge University (NL+IR)
"Information retrieval: how far will *really* simple methods take
you?"
17:30 Drinks
Tuesday 8 December
Session 3: Video and Image Processing
09:00 Stanley Peters, Stanford University
"Methods and Tools"
09:30 Andres Salway and Khursid Ahmad, University of Surrey
"Talking Pictures: Indexing and Representing Video with Collateral
Text"
10:00 Wim van Bruxvoort, VDA informatiebeheersing
"Pop-Eye: language technology for video retrieval"
10:30 Break
11:00 Istar Buscher, SWR
"Going digital at TV-archives: new dimensions of information
management for professional and public demands"
11:30 Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam
"Vision and language, the impossible connection"
12:00 Kees van Deemter, University of Brighton (Picture Retrieval)
"Retrieving Pictures for Document Generation"
12:30 Lunch
Session 4: Speech retrieval
14:00 Steve Renals, University of Sheffield
"The THISL Spoken Document Retrieval System"
14:30 Wessel Kraaij / Joop van Gent, TNO-TPD
"Phoneme Based Spoken Document Retrieval"
15:00 Break
Closing Session
15:30 Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University
"Information novelty and the MMR Metric in Retrieval and
Summarization"
16:00 Discussion
16:30 Closing
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, or 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
email: twlt14@cs.utwente.nl