UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium, September 17, 2001
Cross-Language Information Access Research at Exeter


Gareth Jones


University of Exeter

UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium

September 17, 2001,
2:30pm, AVW Room 2120

Research in Information Access attempts to provide access to multilingual and multimedia data by bringing together language technologies from traditionally separate disciplines. Relevant technologies include information retrieval, summarization, machine translation and speech recognition. Research projects in Information Access at the University of Exeter are seeking to address the challenges of Information Access through the integration of these technologies. This talk will describe work at Exeter exploring cross-language information access for textual and spoken documents. The presentation will describe results from Exeter's participation in the CLEF 2001 workshop, cross-language spoken document retrieval for an experiment based on the TREC-8 SDR track and outline a preliminary investigation of cross-language browsing of spoken documents.

About the speaker:

Gareth Jones received a B.Eng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol, U.K. in 1989, and a PhD in 1994 from the same institution for his thesis investigating the Integration of Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing. From 1993-96 he was a Research Associate in the Department of Engineering and Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge where he worked on the Video Mail Retrieval using Voice (VMR) project. In 1996 he was appointed as a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Exeter. From 1997-98 he held a Toshiba Fellowship working at the main Toshiba Corporation Research & Development Center in Kawasaki, Japan. His current research focuses mainly on natural language engineering technologies. He has published over 50 papers in International Conference Proceedings and Journals, including Best Paper Awards at the international conferences ACM SIGIR 96 and ACM Multimedia 96.

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