1. DFKI GmbH, 22.09.2003, R. Karger Perspectives for the Indo German Scientific and Technological Cooperation in the Field of Language Technology Reinhard Karger, M.A. Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) GmbH German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Szuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D- 66123 Saarbrücken karger@dfki.de, http://www.dfki.de, http://www.lt-cc.org Tel.: +49 681-302 5253, Fax: +49 681-302 5341

2. DFKI GmbH, 22.09.2003, R. Karger What has the speaker said? 100 Alternatives What has the speaker meant? 10 Alternatives What does the speaker want? Unambiguous Understanding in the Dialog Context Reduction of Uncertainty Sprachanalys e Speech Recognition Speech Input Discourse Context Knowledge about Domain of Discourse Grammar Lexical Meaning Acoustic Patterns Language Models Word Lists Speech Analysis Speech Under- standing Three Levels of Language Processing

3. DFKI GmbH, 22.09.2003, R. Karger Topics for the Indo German Scientific and Technological Cooperation in the Field of Language Technology Natural Access to Internet Ressources Telephone Dialog Systems for Multilingual Information Access Multimodal Information Access using Speech and Gestures Multimodal Information Kiosk for Rural and Urban Population Cross-Cultural & Cross-Lingual Information Management Engineering of Knowledge Sources Inter-Cultural Issues in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Virtual Environments for Distance Education (E-Learning) Culturally Adapted Life-Like Characters for Literacy Programmes

4. DFKI GmbH, 22.09.2003, R. Karger Application-Oriented Basic Research and Real-Life Applications Enabling Technologies Language Identification Speech & Gesture Recognition Language Understanding Information Extraction / Retrieval Dialog Processing Machine Translation Answer Generation Speech Synthesis Virtual Environments Research, Development, Identification and Adaptation of Technologies for Symbolic and Stochastic Speech & Language Understanding General Tasks Project Management Data Collection Alignment & Annotation Software Engineering System Integration Modul Coordination Usability Studies Technology Evaluation Presentation / Communication Hybrid Processing Approach to achieve broad Coverage and Robustness

5. DFKI GmbH, 22.09.2003, R. Karger Steps to Define a Joint Indo German LT-Project Brainstorming Initial Group of Experts, Seed Funding Preliminary Definition of Project Goals Domain of Discourse Interaction Paradigm (Scenario) Pre-Proposal Feasability Study Adaptation of Project Goals Funding, Players & Teams Funding Periods, Agencies, Budget Full-Proposal Definition of Workpackages, Deliverables, Milestones Project Plan Definition of Evaluation Criteria Building the Consortium International Advisory Board