Subject: twlt14 : language technology in multimedia information retrieval

14th twente workshop on language technology language technology in multimedia information retrieval december 7 - 8 1998 , university of twente , the netherlands program and call for participation 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
