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 . http : / / wwwseti . cs . utwente . nl / parlevink / conferences / twlt14 . html program : monday 7 december 09 : 00 registration 10 : 00 opening session 1 : cross - language ir 10 : 15 hans uszkoreit , dfki " cross - language information retrieval : from naive concepts to advanced applications " 10 : 45 paul buitelaar , klaus netter and feiyu xu , dfki " integrating different strategies for cross - language retrieval " 11 : 15 break 11 : 30 franciska de jong and djoerd hiemstra , university of twente " cross - language retrieval : from design to implementation . " 12 : 00 david hull , xerox grenoble " information extraction from bilingual corpora and its application to machine - aided translation " 12 : 30 lunch session 2 : nlp , ie / ir and multimedia 14 : 00 arjen de vries , university of twente " mirror : multimedia query processing in extensible databases " 14 : 30 doug appelt , sri international " an overview of information extraction and its applications to information retrieval " 15 : 00 break + demos 16 : 00 paul van der vet , university of twente " combining linguistic and knowledge - based engineering for information retrieval and information extraction " 16 : 30 karen sparck - jones , cambridge university ( nl + ir ) " information retrieval : how far will * really * simple methods take you ? " 17 : 30 drinks tuesday 8 december session 3 : video and image processing 09 : 00 stanley peters , stanford university " methods and tools " 09 : 30 andres salway and khursid ahmad , university of surrey " talking pictures : indexing and representing video with collateral text " 10 : 00 wim van bruxvoort , vda informatiebeheersing " pop - eye : language technology for video retrieval " 10 : 30 break 11 : 00 istar buscher , swr " going digital at tv - archives : new dimensions of information management for professional and public demands " 11 : 30 arnold smeulders , university of amsterdam " vision and language , the impossible connection " 12 : 00 kees van deemter , university of brighton ( picture retrieval ) " retrieving pictures for document generation " 12 : 30 lunch session 4 : speech retrieval 14 : 00 steve renals , university of sheffield " the thisl spoken document retrieval system " 14 : 30 wessel kraaij / joop van gent , tno-tpd " phoneme based spoken document retrieval " 15 : 00 break closing session 15 : 30 jaime carbonell , carnegie mellon university " information novelty and the mmr metric in retrieval and summarization " 16 : 00 discussion 16 : 30 closing 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 , or 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 email : twlt14 @ cs . utwente . nl