General Recommendations 

• Balance between theory and practice (CL 7, CD 10)
  • There is a need for new researchers in PHON for basic research in speech sciences and for applications in the field of speech technology and speech therapy. (PHON 1)
• Old barriers between the humanities and science/engineering must be lowered. (CL 8, PHON 6)
  • Larger coordinated efforts are needed to continue the promotion of research an innovations in SLE for developing new applications using the integration of speech and language.  (SLE 9)
• Cooperation between industry and academia, and among universities, including Central and Eastern Europe (SLE 2, SLE 8)
  • Based on the definition of agreed standards , e.g. for textual corpora across languages (NEL 2)
  • We recommend that work towards open public standards for encoding all languages of the world is stimulated with a view to enabling the transfer and sharing of scarce academic textual resources in those languages. (NEL 2, SLE 2)
  • We recommend the creation of an international forum dedicated to NEL computing, where teachers and students can meet and exchange information, experiences, etc. (NEL 11)

Specific Recommendations

• It is recommended that exploitation of the Internet/WWW should be used to facilitate the application of theory to practice, and to help bridge the gap between theory, research methods and clinical teaching in SLT. (CD 10)
• Future research projects in CL should be explicitly required to make their results available for educational reuse. (CL 17)
• Industry, national and international bodies should continue to support projects for the development, testing and evaluation of advanced training modules for SLE, including ODL and LLL. ISCA-SIG on education can play an important role. (SLE 11)