C s t a r M o d e l

• Low Overhead, Informal Organization
• No central Control
  
  • It's not a Funding Agency
• Each Partner Site builds complete system (little interfacing needed)
  • Each Site handles their own input language Outputs and transfers text in target language
  • Each site synthesizes local language
• Common Domain Choice of Task
  • Not too Easy, Not too Hard
  • Milestones
• Data Sharing
  • Regular Exchange
  • Workshops
  • Review Meetings
  • Exchange of Researchers
• Joint Demonstration Experiments