W3C Weekly News - 7 April 2003

                             W3C Weekly News

                         2 April - 7 April 2003

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W3C Semantic Tour, Europe 10-24 June

   W3C holds a series of one day events in Rome, London, Munich, Athens
   and Brussels from 10-24 June. The W3C Semantic Tour promotes W3C
   technologies that bring to the Web more effective discovery,
   automation, integration, and reuse of data. Organizers come from the
   W3C Italy, UK and Ireland, Germany, Greece and Benelux Offices. All
   events are open to the public and free of charge.

    http://www.w3.org/2003/03/semantic-tour.html

One Day W3C Event in Helsinki, Finland

   Register for "Semantic Web and Web Services: Semantic Web is Here --
   Are You Ready?" to be held in Helsinki, Finland on 6 May.
   Co-sponsored by the W3C Finnish Office, the seminar will introduce
   the concepts behind the buzzwords. Most talks are in Finnish and
   Ivan Herman (W3C) and Suresh Chande (Nokia) will speak in English.
   The event is free and open to the public.

    http://www.w3c.tut.fi/events/2003/0506swws/register.php
    http://www.w3c.tut.fi/events/2003/0506swws/index.html

Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition Working Draft Published

   The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Working Draft of
   "Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition." The draft describes
   the contents of speech recognition grammar tags used to represent
   natural language utterances. It is expected that the results can be
   integrated into the EMMA data format. Comments are welcome through
   2 May. Visit the Voice Browser home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-semantic-interpretation-20030401/
    http://www.w3.org/Voice/

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Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2003 00:21:07 UTC