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To: Chris Cieri <ccieri@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
From: "George R. Doddington" <doddington@sri.com>
Subject: revised TDT2 meeting agenda
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:19:11 -0500

Tuesday, 24 February

1:00 Welcoming Remarks (LDC)

1:05 Review of Agenda (Doddington)

1:10 Overview of Research Mission (Wayne)

1:30 Corpus Creation Plans & Progress (LDC)
- sources
- recording
- processing (segmentation, transcription, topic tagging,
quality assurance, distribution)

3:00 BREAK

3:15 Corpus Creation Process Demonstrations (LDC)
- collection/recording
- transcription
- segmentation
- topic tagging

4:15 Ideas for Improving Accuracy & Efficiency
of Topic Tagging Process (LDC)

4:45 BREAK

5:00 Review of Topic Definition Process (LDC + Doddington)
- types of approaches used by sites
- examination of each definition submitted
- deliberation as to proper scope of a topic definition
- proposed process for future definitions

6:30 Check into Hotel

7:30 DINNER
- Informal TDT Discussions

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Wednesday, 25 February

8:00 Doors Open

8:15 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Review of Agenda (Doddington)

8:35 Recapitulation of Research Mission (Wayne)

9:00 Review of Plans (Doddington)
- definition and proper scope of "topics"
- topic definition process
- discussion of any changes/actions needed
regarding corpus creation

1O:00 BREAK

10:15 Review of Plans, continued (Doddington)
- technology tasks
- evaluation procedure
- software needed
- schedule

11:15 Automatic Transcription Plans (Yamron)
- output format
- production schedule
- sample transcriptions

12:00 WORKING LUNCH
- completion of final report for Pilot Study

1:00 Summary of TDT2 Corpus Plans and Actions Needed
(Doddington + LDC)

2:00 Research (BBN, CMU)
- tasks to undertake
- progress to date
- plans until TDT2 corpus available
- plans after TDT2 corpus available

2:30 BREAK

2:45 Research, continued (Dragon, IBM, UMass, UPenn)

4:15 BREAK

4:30 Wrap-Up (Doddington)
- review decisions & action items
- settle schedule

5:30 ADJOURN

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