From SIGSEM

Background

The aim of this working group, formed in 2002, is to establish guidelines and recommendations for the representation of semantic information in multimodal human-computer communication. This idea was also taken up by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) at the preliminary meeting of its Technical Committee 37, Subcommittee 4 on Terminology and Standards for Linguistic Resources Management in Jeju (Korea) in February 2002. It was agreed that recommendations for the representation of multimodal semantic information would be the topic of a working group outside the ISO organisation, with the hope that it would eventually become a topic for standardization in ISO. This was formally approved by an ISO meeting during LREC 2002 at Las Palmas.

Meetings

• Meeting 1: January 14, 2003 at Tilburg (Netherlands), in conjunction with IWCS-5.

• Meeting 2: September 22-23, 2003 at Nancy (France), during the Nancy Inference Week.

• Meeting 3: May 24-25, 2004 at Lisbon (Portugal), in the margin of LREC-2004.

• Meeting 4: January 10-11, 2005 at Tilburg (Netherlands), in the margin of IWCS-6.

• Meeting 5: April 2006 at Marina del Rey (California) together with ISO TC 37/SC 4 Task Domain Group on Semantic Content Representation at the Institute for Information Sciences (ISI).

• Meeting 6: January 8-9, 2007 at Tilburg (Netherlands), in the margin of IWCS-7.

Contact

Coordinator: Harry Bunt. Offical working group website.