Award Details
The 14th CLSP Summer Workshop on Human Language Technology begins on July 7, 2008
Year: 2008
Each summer, CLSP organizes and hosts an intensive research workshop focusing on speech and language engineering. These very successful workshops have widespread impact on the Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition (LVCSR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Dialog communities.
The summer workshops offer the opportunity to start examining areas that are promising but not well investigated due to lack of human resources, e.g. the right combination of diverse expertise, or material resources such as appropriate labeled corpora. Perhaps the most important contributions of the summer workshops are the intangibles like cross-fertilization of ideas between research groups and transfer of knowledge from renowned experts to sponsors. In many cases workshop research has subsequently influenced solutions and approaches to problems in the language and speech community that are of particular interest to the Government, Industry, and Academia. Additionally the workshops offer the opportunity to seed a variety of research projects that are continued well after the workshop is over.
The workshops make significant contributions to the pool of trained specialists in the fields of speech and natural language processing by providing training to students, allowing researchers to learn from each other, and educating all workshop participants and government employees through guest lectures, participant seminars, and team research updates.
A vast majority of workshop participants have remarked that the single biggest benefit of the workshop to them has been the interaction with others which leads indirectly to many other benefits long after the workshops.