[Corpora-List] Call for Proposals: JHU Summer Workshop on Language Engineering

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Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 22:15:53 MET DST

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    CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS

    The Center for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins
    University invites research proposals for a Summer Workshop on Language
    Engineering, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, from July 14 to
    August 22, 2003.

    The deadline for submitting proposals is October 15, 2002.

    You may already have a good idea of the purpose of these six-week summer
    workshops, which we have hosted every year since 1995. Each workshop
    team (eight or more people) explores a specific research topic that will
    help advance the state of the art in some area of Language Engineering,
    such as

    * Speech recognition
    * Translingual information detection and extraction
    * Machine translation
    * Speech synthesis
    * Information retrieval
    * Topic detection and tracking
    * Text summarization
    * Question answering

    The research topics of the participating teams in previous workshops can
    serve as a good example (see http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops). Having
    identified such topics through the review process described below, we
    then attempt to get the best researchers to collaboratively work on
    them. You may also have a good idea of the typical participants of
    these summer workshops: the workshops bring together diverse teams of
    leading researchers and students. The senior participants in the
    workshop are university professors and industrial and governmental
    researchers from widely dispersed locations. The graduate students are
    familiar with the field and are selected in accordance with their
    demonstrated performance, usually by the senior researchers. The
    undergraduates, selected through a national search, are entering seniors
    who are new to the field and who have shown outstanding academic
    promise.

    We are soliciting proposals for research projects from a wide range of
    academic and government institutions, as well as from industry. An
    independent panel of experts will screen all proposals received by the
    deadline for suitability to the workshop goals and format. Results of
    this screening will be announced no later than October 23,
    2002. Proposals passing this initial screening will be presented to a
    peer-review panel that will meet in Baltimore on November 8-10,
    2002. One or two authors of the screened proposals and other leading
    researchers will be invited to this meeting. It is expected that the
    proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding
    concerns or new ideas. Out of these panel reviews and ensuing
    discussion, three research topics will finally be selected for the 2003
    workshop. Authors of successful proposals will typically be the team
    leaders.

    Would you be interested and available to participate in the 2003 Summer
    Workshop? If so, we ask that you submit a one-page research proposal for
    consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed and a rough work
    agenda for the workshop. If your proposal passes the initial screening,
    we will invite you to join us for the organizational meeting in
    Baltimore (as our guest) for further discussions aimed at consensus. If
    a topic in your area of interest is chosen as one of the three or four
    to be pursued next summer, we expect you to be available for
    participation in the six-week workshop. We are not asking for an
    ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good-faith understanding
    that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will want to
    have an active role in pursuing it.

    Proposals may be faxed (410-516-5050), or sent via e-mail
    (sec@clsp.jhu.edu) or regular mail (CLSP, Johns Hopkins University,
    320 Barton Hall, 3400 N. Charles St., Barton 320, Baltimore, MD 21218).



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