Framework: Funded as a research network within ESPRIT Basic Research, by the DG III F of the Commission of the European Community, Brussels.
Description: The network is an infrastructural (``horizontal'') activity aiming at supporting scientific exchange between researchers and institutes active in the fields of speech processing and NLP. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary topics concerning the interaction between the two areas and their integration. Current activities aim at the creation of an adequate infrastructure for the exchange of scientists, the creation of sharable resources (grammars, lexicons, speech samples, corpora), as well as an intensification of the contacts with industry and with research funding organizations. ELSNET has proposed two research networks under the CEC's HCM programme (Human Capital and Mobility), one on phrase Level Phonology, another on Dialogue and Discourse.
IMS Activities in the framework of ELSNET
Duration: Pilot phase went from: 10-1991 to 09-1992, with an extension to 09-1993. Second extension, for the time frame 10-1993 through 09-1994 is approved.
Status: No personnel; only funds for administrative work (the institute is the national managing node for Germany).
Elsnet has its own WWW Server...
IMS Contact Point: Ulrich Heid (uli@ims.uni-stuttgart.de)