Session 10: Government Panel

The Workshop included an extended group of presentations by selected US government agencies and an invited guest from the European Community. These presentations, amplified in the following pages, indicated the importance given to speech and natural language research and development, and the approach of each agency to adapt their philosophy and activities to those aspects which they considered most important to their charter. Reactions from the audience were taken within the time allocated to the presentations. SUMMARY STATEMENTS The first presentation was by Calvin Olano of the Department of Defense, where he has been involved over the years in the development and acquisition of spoken language systems. His remarks, while mostly oriented to the ARPA spoken language research efforts, were broadly applicable to other human language technology programs. His presentation emphasized the advantages of tuning the system design to take advantage of the characteristics of the task at hand. He...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: NAACL
• Authors: Oscar N. Garcia
• Keywords: Human Language Technology, Language Research, NAACL 1994, NAACL 2007, Spoken Language