cole acl workshop multilingual information management report cole acl workshop multilingual information management current levels future abilities august universite de montreal montreal canada cole acl workshop multilingual information management followon nsf sponsor workshop hold conjunction first international conference language resource evaluation granada spain goal workshop consider recent history likely nearterm future number research area pertain language relate still semiindependent present conclusion gather report submit nsf le fund agency europe north america consideration set fund policy goal draft report is available http www c cmu edu ref mlim granada workshop international panel invite expert focus set question attempt identify most likely most effective future direction computational linguistics research especially context need handle multilingual multus modal information coling workshop followon aim open discussion computational linguistics community whole solicit comment addition feedback contribution everyone register consult coling acl home page http colingacl iro umontreal ca workshop description development natural language application handle multus lingual multimodal information next major challenge face field computational linguistics over past variety languagerelate capability develop area machine translation information retrieval speech recognition together core capability information extraction summarization parse generation multimedium plan integration statisticsbase method ontology lexicon construction lexical representation grammar next few require extension technology encompass multilingual multimodal information extend current technology require integration various capability multifunctional natural language system however today clear vision technology assemble coherent framework involve connect speech recognition system information retrieval engine machine translation summarization software process retrieve text traditional parse generation enhance statistical technique effect carefully craft lexicon traditional information retrieval workshop organize series discussion session each one devote one aspect computational language initiate report discussion granada workshop report summarize discussion granada available below enough discussion schedule discussion focus follow fundamental question current level capability each major area field deal language relate media human communication function integrate near future kind system result major consideration extend function handle multilingual multimodal information particularly integrate system type envision particular consider question relation follow area o multilingual resource lexicon ontology corpus etc o information retrieval especially crosslingual crossmodal o machine translation text speech o automate crosslingual information extraction summarization o method technique both statisticsbase linguisticsbase o speech recognition synthesis o multimedium communication language speaker identification o evaluation assessment technique each area o government policy future fund initial finding report form basis discussion draft report available http www c cmu edu ref mlim major point raise discussion record include report eagerly seek feedback comment contribution assistance report comprehensive accurate possible program welcome overview cross lingual cross modal information retrieval moderator judith klavan information extraction automate text summarization moderator eduard hovy break method technique moderator nancy ide machine translation text speech moderator bente maegaard lunch multilingual resource moderator martha palmer speech recognition synthesis moderator tba break evaluation assessment moderator john white multimedium communication language speaker identification moderator oliviero stock government development policy fund moderator antonio zampollus report outcome granada montreal workshop report originally commission nsf submit nsf le fund agency europe north america first draft report is available http www c cmu edu ref mlim eagerly seek feedback comment contribution assistance report comprehensive accurate possible organizers robert frederk center machine translation carnegie mellon university schenley park pittsburgh pa tel fax email ref nl c cmu edu eduard hovy information science institute university southern californium admiralty marina del rey ca tel fax email hovy isus edu nancy ide department computer science vassar college raymond avenue poughkeepsie ny usa tel fax email ide c vassar edu joseph marianus limsicnrs bp orsay cedex france tel fax email marianus limsus fr antonio zampollus ilccnr via dellum faggiolum pisa italy fax email pisa ilc pi cnr eduard hovy email hovy isus edu usc information science institute tel ext admiralty fax marina del rey ca project homepage http www isus edu naturallanguage nlpat isus html 