Language Technology News for 2003

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Antonio Zampolli is Dead.
2003/08/23

http://www.lt-world.org/news/AntonioZampolli.html
On August 22nd 2003 Professor Antonio Zampolli died in Pisa in a terrible accident caused by fire.

Japanese scientists press for robot funds
2003/08/22

http://rss.com.com/2100-1041_3-5067998.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=new(...)
Japanese researchers are pressing the government to invest in an ambitious robot development plan, with the aim of creating a machine that has the artificial intelligence of a human child, according to reports.

Computer Games to Boost Children's Language Skills
2003/08/22

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994093
A simple computer program that teaches children to distinguish between sounds can dramatically boost their listening skills.

Xerox to support Assistive Technologies
2003/08/21

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030821/244/e6m5f.html
Technology is a great enabler, but for America's 54 million citizens with disabilities it's more than that-it's a lifeline. Assistive technology gives these people a better shot at success, via innovations that help the blind "read" magazines, the deaf "h

W3C to present OWL as a Candidate Reccomendation
2003/08/20

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5066131.html
As part of its ongoing effort to give digital documents meaning that computers can understand, the Web's leading standards body advanced a key protocol as a candidate recommendation.

NLTK version 1.1 is now available on SourceForge
2003/08/19

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308&L=corpora&D=1&F(...)
NLTK, the Natural Language Toolkit, is a suite of Python libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing.

FAST and the University of Bielefeld Form Strategic Partnership to Promote the Use of Enterprise Search for Digital Libraries
2003/08/18

http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/030818/183/e6evd.html
Innovative university library to deploy FAST Data Search and become a test bed for the use of enterprise search technology in the academic digital library market in Germany and worldwide.

Overture Licenses Contextual Ad Technology
2003/08/13

http://www.internetnews.com/article.php/2248561
Contextual ad technology provider Quigo Technologies announced on Wednesday that it inked a licensing deal with Overture Services. Overture will use Quigo's AdSonar to back up its own homegrown technology.

EMMA - a newly drafted Standard to support multi-modal Web Access
2003/08/13

http://rss.com.com/2100-1013_3-5063526.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=new(...)
The World Wide Web Consortium published the first public working draft of the Extensible MultiModal Annotation (EMMA) language, designed to marry an array of interaction methods to a single data exchange format.

Multilingual Speech Deployments to become increasingly important for Business
2003/08/12

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030812/125231_1.html
Telecom and Financial Services Giants Among Companies Utilizing Nuance Speech Solutions to Support Multilingual Customer Bases.

Searching for the personal touch
2003/08/11

http://news.com.com/2100-1024-5061873.html
A stealth start-up out of Stanford University is hoping to raise the heat on one of the toughest problems in Web search--and possibly out-Google Google in the process.

IBM Takes Search to New Heights
2003/08/08

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20030808/tc_zd/46085(...)
IBM is working on new search technology that may eventually give Google Inc. a run for its money, at least in the corporate space.

New LDC Corpora: FORM2 Kinematic Gesture and Arabic Gigaword
2003/08/07

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308&L=corpora&D=1&F(...)
The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the availability of two new releases: Arabic Gigaword and FORM2 Kinematic Gesture.

Glove Won't Speak for the Deaf
2003/08/07

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59912,00.html
For years, researchers have worked to improve gloves that can translate American Sign Language into spoken and written speech.

Autonomy to be recognized by Forrester as a leading Infrastructure Provider
2003/08/06

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030806/sfw003_1.html
Independent Analysts Note Autonomy's Strength Managing Unstructured Data In Future Of Enterprise Search Research Report.