LREC Invited Speakers over the years
This page provides the list of all the keynote and invited speakers who have given a speech at the LREC conferences. When available, the link to display or download the speech is provided.
- Julia Parish-Morris, Dept of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania, USA: Language Resources for charting Linguistic Diversity in Neuroexpansive Populations - Emmanuel Dupoux, EHESS, France: Textless NLP: towards language processing from raw audio
- Philippe Boula de Mareüil, LISN, France: The languages of France illustrated by a Speaking Atlas
- Henri-José Deulofeu, Aix-Marseille Université, France: Why we do not speak in Marseilles as they write in Paris?and consequently why NLP needs crucially more datafrom spontaneous speech ecological recordings
- Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania, USA: How Children Overcome the Sparsity Problem
- Yukinori Takubo, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan: How many languages in Japan (Invited speaker)
- Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Empathetic Dialog Systems
- Roberto Pieraccini, Jibo Inc., USA: The challenge of conversational machines: from MUSA to Jibo
- Simon Krek, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia: Slovene and the South Slavic Language Family – the Obligation of Expressing Duality and Other Stories from the South
- Ryan McDonald, Google, UK: The Language Resource Spectrum: A Perspective from Google
- Hassan Sawaf, eBay Inc., USA: Language Technology for Commerce, the eBay Way
- Thórhallur Eythórsson, University of Iceland: Icelandic Quirks: Testing Linguistic Theories and Language Technology
- Luc Steels, ICREA, IBE (UPF-CSIC) Barcelona, Spain and VUB AI Lab Brussels, Belgium: When will robots speak like you and me?
- Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, AKSW: The Web of Data: Decentralized, collaborative, interlinked and interoperable
- Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon Qatar: The Turkish Language and its Challenges for Language Processing
- Catherine Pelachaud, Telecom ParisTech: Socio-emotional virtual agent
- Jaime Carbonell, Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University: MT and Resource Collection for Low- Density Languages
- Ralf Steinberger, European Commission, Joint Research Centre: Challenges and Solutions for Multilingual Text Mining
- Ray Fabri, Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta: Maltese at the Crossroads of Technological Developments
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates: The Web as a Semantic Source
- Julia Hirschberg: Detecting Deceptive Speech: Requirements, Resources and Evaluation
- Enrico Motta: Language Technologies and the Evolution of the Semantic Web
- Noriko Kando: Evaluation of Information Access Technologies with Asian Languages at NTCIR Workshop
- Eduard Hovy: Toward Semantic Corpora: Creating Concepts from Words via Senses, and Storing them in an Ontology
- Jean Carletta: Unleashing the killer corpus: experiences in creating the multi-everything AMI Meeting Corpus
- Junichi Tsujii: Thesaurus or logical ontology, which do we need for mining text
- Marilyn Walker: Can We Talk? Prospects for Automatically Training Spoken Dialogue Systems
- Nick Campbell: Getting to the Heart of the Matter; Speech is more than just the Expression of Text or Language
- Gregor Thurmair: Multilingual Content Processing
- Kishore Papineni: Machine Translation Evaluation: N-grams to the Rescue
- Mark T. Maybury: Multimodal Systems, Resources and Evaluation
- James Pustejovsky: Creating Domain-specific Information Servers (pdf not available)
- Gianni Lazzari: Speech to Speech Translation: Present and Future Challenges (pdf not available)
- Salim Roukos: Next Generation Natural Language Applications (pdf file not available)
- Alan K. Melby & Klaus-Dirk Schmitz: Terminology Standards – Help for the Terminology Community (abstract)
- Alex Waibel: Meeting Recognition and Tracking (abstract)
- Stephen Richardson: The Evolution of an NLP System (abstract)
For this edition, the papers are not available in pdf version.
- Nicoletta Calzolari: An Overview on Written Language Resources in Europe: a few Reflections, Facts, and a Vision (Spoken & Written Language Resources in Europe)
- Harald Höge: Spoken Language Resources for Voice Driven Man Machine Interfaces, (Spoken & Written Language Resources in Europe)
- Margaret King & Bente Maegaard: Issues in Natural Language Systems Evaluation
- Donna Harman: The Text REtrieval Conferences (TRECs) and the Cross-Language Track
- Gregory Grefenstette: Problems and Techniques for Cross Language Information Retrieval
- Christian Dugast & Lori Lamel: Issues in Man-Machine Spoken Dialogues