NSF Funding of LT resources

Tanya Korelsky, Program DirectorRobust Intelligence Cluster

Division of Information and Intelligent SystemsDirectorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering

National Science Foundation

tkorelsk@nsf.govhttp://www.nsf.gov/

How NSF is organized

Biological Sciences

Computer and InformationSciences and Engineering

Education andHuman Resources

Engineering

Geosciences

Mathematical andPhysical Sciences

Social, BehavioralAnd Economic Sciences

Office of the Director

How CISE is organized

CCFComputing and

CommunicationsFoundations

CNSComputer and

NetworkSystems

IISInformation and

IntelligentSystems

Office of theAssistant Director

for CISE

OCIOffice of

Cyberinfra-structure

(formerly SCI, now with NSF-wide mission, reporting to

Director of NSF)

Office of the Director

Clusters ClustersClusters

Crosscutting Emphasis Areas

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CISE Proposal/Award Statistics

FY Proposals AwardsFunding

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2005 4,962 1,086 23% 1,398 581

2004 6,266 1,017 16% 1,297 400

2003 5,346 1,174 22% 1,023 354

2002 4,314 1,038 24% 918 308

2001 3,579 885 25% 768 231

2000 2,853 903 32% 547 210

1999 2,209 746 34% 493 301

1998 1,885 667 35% 476 211

1997 1,894 684 36% 527 219

1996 1,760 601 34% 610 183

1995 1,941 708 36% 631 215

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CISE Budget: 2003-2007

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Requested 6.1%increase includes20M for cybersecurity,10M for GENI

The Human Language and Communication Program (HLC)

Initiated by Dr. Mary Harper This HLC program emphasizes innovative advances in computer

and information sciences relating to all forms of human communication.

High-level human communication topics: Text Processing Speech Processing Multimodal Communication Processing

HLC is attempting to strengthen current research while broadening future research directions of the language processing research community (e.g., multimodal communication).

HLC/ITR LT recent resource, annotation and evaluation metrics awards

ITR ’03: Collaborative effort on Interlingual Annotation HLC ’04: Constructing an Enhanced Version of WordNet, $100K

(12 months) HLC ’05:

Rapid Development of Frame Semantic lexicon, to ICSI, UC Berkeley, $400K (36 months)

SGER: Learning Syntax-based Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation, Dr. Rebecca Hwa, University of Pittsburgh, $200K (24 months)

A Framework for Learning High Accuracy Evaluation Metrics for NLP Applications, Dr. Alon Lavie, CMU, $150K (24 months)

CISE CRI (Computing Research Infrastructure) Program

Funds community resources for IIS programs; reviewers are supplied by the technical program directors

’04 LT resource planning award: to Vassar College: An Open Linguistic Infrastructure for American English, $50K (12 month)

’05 LT resource/annotation awards: Towards a Comprehensive Linguistic Annotation of Language

(Brandeis, UColorado, Pitt, Penn, NYU), $850K, 24 months; goals include achieving an international consensus on a meta-specification framework

Another planning award ($100K) to Vassar College and Princeton University: An Open Linguistic infrastructure for American English; goals include annotation of semantic categories using WordNet and FrameNet

Information and Intelligent Systems Reorganization into Clusters

Robust Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Human Language and Communication, Robotics, Computer Vision, Computational Neuroscience

Human-centered Computing

Human Computer Interaction, Social Informatics, Universal Access

Information Integration and Informatics

Data, Information, and Knowledge Management; Information Integration; Science and Engineering Informatics; Digital Libraries; Digital Government

Information and Intelligent Systems

New Cluster-oriented Solicitation Scheduled to be published in May with submission deadline late

October – early November One of cross-cutting threads: Human-Robot Interaction Implications for HLC area - renewed attention to

dialogue (human-human, machine-human); ASR of imperfect and affected speech; Speech-to-concept understanding; concept-to-speech

generation Need corpora to support these research areas!

One Small Current Effort

SGER (Small Grant for Exploratory Research) Creation of a Goal-Oriented, Human-Machine Spoken

Corpus ICSI (UC Berkeley), Dr. Dillek Hakkani-Tur Building a spoken mixed-initiative dialogue system for

for conference services Deploying the system for the IEEE SLT Workshop

(December 2006) Collecting and annotating the dialogue corpus

Digital Tools Summit at Michigan State University (June 2006)

Funded jointly by the Linguistics Program and (former) HLC program

Addresses a functionality gap between the tools that documentary linguists and typologists need and the ability of existing tools to annotate partially-understood linguistic data

Existing methods and tools presuppose a regularized digital corpus of a well-understood language and require a high degree of computational sophistication

Aims to develop a roadmap for creating regional and national language archives and the tools to achieve it

Brings together theoretical computational linguists and “data-driven” linguists to brainstorm the challenging issues

NSF perspective on funding LT resources

New corpora for dialogue research New corpora for ASR research:

mixed language (English-Spanish) affected speech (911 calls); senior speech

New general corpora (ANC), both text and speech Dependency treebanks and parsers Harmonization of existing semantic resources (WordNet

and FrameNet) Basic research on semantic annotation: ambivalent

attitude to standardization

NSF perspective on funding LT resources (international resources)

Parallel corpora for new MT research on statistical methods applied to syntactic and semantic representations

Research on MT for minority languages (pending award to CMU for Inupiaq and Aymara)

Corpora for research on language identification International collaboration on speech processing (NYU-

EBIRE- CNRS) and on unified linguistic annotation International workshop on dependency representations

(2007 ACL in Prague)

Thank you

Tanya KorelskyRobust Intelligence

Human Language and Communication

Division of Information and Intelligent SystemsDirectorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering

National Science Foundation

tkorelsk@nsf.govhttp://www.nsf.gov/

Digital Living 2010

People across the globe will have access to each other and information provided by pervasive devices, embedded sensors and systems because all will be connected to the Internet.

Home Computer

PDA

Telephone

Entertainment Systems

Car

Surveillance and Security(at home, work, or in public)

Building Automation

Banking and

Commerce

Photography

Home Appliances

Games

Inventory/Salestracking

Health/Medical

Communications

Thanks to David Kotz at Dartmouth

Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI)

Limitations of the Internet

Security mechanisms not included in the IP layer

End-to-end robustness cannot be assumed or assured

Scaling limitations

Quality of service mechanisms have not diffused widely in the public Internet

Support for new technologies difficult (e.g., wireless, mobility, sensors)

Global Environment for Networking Innovations

New networking and distributed system architectures

Build in security and robustness

Enabling pervasive computing, bridging the gap between the physical and virtual worlds by including mobile, wireless and sensor networks

Enable control and management of other critical infrastructures

Include ease of operation and usability

New classes of societal-level services and applications

Global Environment for Networking Innovations

Research Program

Supports research, design, and development of new networking and distributed systems

Builds on many years of knowledge and experience, but reexamine all networking assumptions and reinvent where needed

Design for intended capabilities; deploy and validate architectures; build new services and applications

Encourage users to participate in experimentation

Take a system-wide approach to the synthesis of new architectures

Global Environment for Networking Innovations

Facility Shared use through slicing and virtualization (where "slice"

denotes the subset of resources bound to a particular experiment)

Access to physical facilities through programmable platforms (e.g., via customized protocol stacks)

Large-scale user participation by "user opt-in" and IP tunnels Protection and collaboration among researchers by

controlled isolation and connection among slices A broad range of investigations using new classes of

platforms and networks, a variety of access circuits and technologies, and global control and management software

Interconnection of independent facilities via federated design.

Global Environment for Networking Innovations

Outreach

CISE has supported numerous community workshops in support of GENI

CISE is supporting on-going planning efforts, including needs assessment and requirements for the GENI Facility.

CISE will hold town meetings and continue to support future workshops to broaden community participation.

CISE will work with industry, other US agencies, and international groups to broaden participation in GENI beyond NSF and the US government.