Corpora: Human Language Technologies seminar

Sharon Denness (sharon.denness@equipe.co.uk)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:53:38 -0000

Equipe/EUROMAP is the UK focal point for EU-funded R&D in the area of Human
Language Technologies (HLT). We would like to invite you to join us at a
seminar which will highlight opportunities for UK organisations in this
important new field of technological development.
The event: Future of the Information Society: Human Language Technologies
The date: 19 January 1999
The place: The Howard Building, Downing College, Cambridge
The seminar will enable UK researchers in the HLT area to make contact with
developers and users interested in taking advantage of new technologies for
speech and language. Some of the leading researchers in the UK will be
present at the event, and a senior official from the EU will be on hand to
describe the new Fifth Framework research programme - Information Society
Technologies. There will also be an exhibition and demonstration of new
language technology tools.
A copy of the draft programme is attached. In addition, you may check the
HLT Central web site (www.linglink.lu) for background information on
technology and markets in this area.
The event is subsidised by the European Commission; the only cost to
delegates is an administrative fee of £50 (plus VAT), to cover the cost of
seminar documentation and lunch.
If you would like to join us at this event, you may register by return
email, filling in the information requested below. Alternatively you may
print a registration form attached and return it to us by post.
We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge.
Best regards,
Sharon Denness
Equipe/EUROMAP
Eaton House, Wigmore Place
Luton, Bedfordshire LU2 9EZ
UK
tel 01582-706-240
direct 01582-706-234
fax 01582-702-222
sharon.denness@equipe.co.uk
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Future of the Information Society: Human Language Technologies
The EUROMAP-UK National Seminar
19 January 1999 - Howard Building, Downing College, Cambridge

9:00 Registration & Welcome
9.30
Welcome and introduction
Sharon Denness, Equipe/EUROMAP
9.40
Keynote
Dr Richard Jennings, Director, Wolfson Industrial Liaison Unit
10:00 Focus - The Business of Language
10.00
The language challenge
Stephen Hagen, Special Advisor to the DTI
10.20
Markets for HLT
Rose Lockwood, Equipe Consortium
10.40
The power of partnering
Tim Barnsley, Channel Dynamics
11.00
Q&A
11.10
Coffee and EXHIBITION
Partner search registration
12:00 Focus - Assistive Technologies
12.00
Emerging technologies: the disability issue
Diane Whitehouse, European Commission Disability & Telematics Programme
12.20
Case Study
Judy Thomas and Emma Elliott, The Arts Dyslexia Trust
12.40
Lunch and EXHIBITION
Partner search registration
2:00 Focus - HLT R&D
2.00
The value of collaborative research: Europe and the US
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield
2.20
New research areas
Marc Moens, University of Edinburgh
2:40
Jeremy Peckham, Strategis Consulting
3.00
HLT in the IST Programme
Roberto Cencioni, European Commission
3.30
Coffee break and EXHIBITION
Partner search registration
3:45 Roundtable - The Way Forward
3:45
Practicalities of projects
Roberto Cencioni
4.15
Panel discussion
4.45
Q&A and open discussion
5:00
Close of conference
5:00 - 6:00 Exhibition & Partner Search Registration

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Registration: Future of the Information Society: Human Language
Technologies
The Howard Building, Downing College, Cambridge, 19 January 1999
ATTENDANCE: (delete one of the following)
*Yes, I would like to attend the UK seminar on HLT (cost £58.75 including
VAT)
*No, I am unable to attend the UK seminar on HLT, but would like to receive
a delegate pack - containing extensive background information on language
technologies, a multimedia CD-ROM, and full conference materials (cost £20
including VAT)
PAYMENT:
Cheques made payable to Equipe Consortium Ltd (send to the above address)
or
Bank transfer to NatWest Bank Plc, 10 St Peter's Street, St Albans, Herts
AL1 3LY
Account name Equipe Consortium Ltd
Sort code 60-18-11
Account number 4529-8505
(delete one of the following)
*I will forward a cheque to Equipe/EUROMAP - AMOUNT:
*I will transfer funds directly - AMOUNT:
Equipe Consortium Ltd VAT Number 665928388
DELEGATE INFORMATION:
Name:
Organisation:
Address:
Phone:
PARTNER SEARCH:
Please indicate here whether you have specific projects in mind, for which
you would like to find partners