1. TALK Consortium meeting AGENDA 7,8 October 2004 HCRC, Buccleugh Place, Edinburgh

2. TALK agenda- thurs AM 9.30 Overall project status (Oliver Lemon) – deliverables, status reports etc 10.00 The reporting tool, schedule for 1st yearly report (Mareike Schmitt, EURICE) 10.30-11.15 Site scientific reports (5 mins each): –10.30 USAAR 10.35 DFKI –10.40 UEDIN 10.45 UCAM –10.50 UGOT 10.55 SEV –11.00 LING 11.05 BOSCH –11.10 BMW 11.15 -12.00 WP5 report and discussion (Tilman Becker) 12.00- 12.30 WP6: "SACTI Corpus: Collection Framework and 1st Data Collection" (UCAM) 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

3. TALK agenda- thurs PM 13.30 WP6 current state (Pinkal and Young) and general discussion 14.30 WP1 research presentation (Cooper et al.) and general discussion: – Work on D1.2a (Aarne Ranta, Bjorn Bringert) – Plans for T1.6s1 (demos by Rebecca Jonson and David Hjelm) – Descriptions of work plans for tasks 1.6, 1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 3, 5.1 (various contributions by Robin, Staffan, Aarne, David) 15.30 WP3 research presentation (Nate Blaylock) and general discussion 16.30 Meeting of the scientific committee/ demos of current systems –FLIGHTS/baseline system demo (UEDIN) 18.00 end - dinner at 7pm

4. TALK agenda - fri AM (1) 9.30 Recap of day 1 progress, outstanding issues (Lemon) 10.00 – 11.00 WP2 research presentation (Milward) and general discussion: –Overview (10 mins) –David Milward: (10 mins) Using ontologies for input and output –Staffan Larsson: (10mins) Godis, dialogue plans and ontologies. –Oliver Lemon: (15 mins) Using dialogue context to improve SR performance via MBL –Upcoming work and deliverables, evaluation and data collection issues. –Discussion (15mins)

5. TALK agenda- fri AM (2) 11.00- 12.00 WP4 research presentation and discussion: – adaptive information presentation, and relation to WP3/WP4 interface (Johanna Moore) – brief review of previous RL work on dialogue (OL) – COMMUNICATOR annotation using DIPPER (RG, OL, JH) – UEDIN's TALK baseline dialogue system (OL, RG) – combining the RL and ISU approaches (JH, OL) – WP4 data collection requirements and plans for WP6 (OL) – WP4 evaluation plans at UEDIN (OL, JH) 12.00 -12.30 Dialogue annotation using NXT (Jean Carletta) 12.30 - 13.00 WP6 annotation tools discussion (Young, Pinkal) 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

6. TALK Agenda- fri PM 14.00 -16.00 Individual WP meetings (to be arrranged by WPL) – WP6 annotation working group (Young and Pinkal) – WP4 meeting –...? 16.00 Any other business – next meetings (December 9-11 Seville,) 17.00 > end