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META-FORUM 2010 - Programme

 

 

November 17: META-FORUM 2010 (day 1)

Room: "Theatre"

08:30 Registration and conference desk

Opening Session
09:30–09:45
 Algirdas Saudargas, Member of European Parliament: Welcome Address
09:45–10:00 Roberto Cencioni (EC, Luxembourg): Greeting Address
10:00–10:15 Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): META-NET and META-FORUM: An Overview
Invited Keynote Speech
Chair: Jan Odijk (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
10:15–11:00
 Yota Georgakopoulou (European Captioning Institute, UK): Challenges for the Audiovisual industry in the Digital Age: Accessibility and Multilingualism

Coffee break
Interactive Session: From Shared Visions to a Strategic Research Agenda
Chair: Josef van Genabith (DCU and CNGL, Ireland)
11:30–11:50
 Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): Introduction – Towards Visions for Language Technology in Multilingual Europe
11:50–12:00
 Phillippe Wacker (EMF, UK): Preliminary findings of the Vision Group "Media and Information Services"
12:00–12:10
 Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA; University of Karlsruhe, Germany): Preliminary findings of the Vision Group "Interactive Systems"
12:10–12:20
 Jörg Porsiel (Volkswagen AG, Germany): Preliminary findings of the Vision Group "Translation and Localisation"
12:20–13:00
 Panel Discussion: From Vision Group meetings and online discussions to a Strategic Research Agenda. Participants: Philippe Wacker, Alex Waibel, Jörg Porsiel, Joseph Mariani (LIMSI/CNRS, France), Josef van Genabith, Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece).

Lunch
Session Language Technology in Europe and Upcoming Funding Opportunities
Invited Keynote Speech
Chair: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)
14:00–14:30
 Georg Artelsmair (European Patent Office, Germany): Recent Developments in Machine Translation Policy at the European Patent Office
14:30–16:30 Roberto Cencioni (European Commission, Luxembourg): EC Info-Session on Upcoming Calls and further Actions in Support of Language Technology and Innovation

Coffee Break
Session: Towards Collaboration and Cooperation in Research and Sharing of Language Resources on a European Scale
Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR, Italy)
17:00–17:30
 Jan Hajic (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic): Building Bridges using Innovative Approaches in Machine Translation
17:30–18:00
 Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece): META-SHARE: The Open Resource Exchange Facility
Invited Keynote Speech
Chair: Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany)
18:00–18:30
Bill Dolan (Microsoft Research, USA): Building Partnerships with Language Communities: The Importance of Shared Technology and Shared Data

 

Room: "Foyer" (in front of "Theatre")

11:00–18:00
 META-NET Village: booths, posters and demos from all areas of META-NET
Chair: Bernardo Magnini (FBK, Italy)
  • META-SHARE demo – The open resource exchange facility designed and built by META-NET
  • The META-NET Virtual Information Centre
  • Machine Translation demos built by the META-NET line of action "Building Bridges to Neighbouring Technology Fields"
  • Poster presentations by the following EU-funded projects: ACCURAT, CLARIN, FLaReNet, Let's MT, MOLTO, Monnet, MultilingualWeb, PANACEA, PROMISE, TTC.

 

November 18th, META-FORUM 2010 (day 2)

 

Room: "Theatre"


 Session Language Technology in Practice: Needs – Problems – Wishes

Chair: Toni Badia (Barcelona Media, Spain)
09:00–09:45
 "Language Technology Companies and their Expectations towards Research Organisations and Funding Agencies".

Introduction – Hanna Klimek (EC, Luxembourg): "Towards a Business Forum for Language-Technology Stakeholders"

Short statements by representatives from companies that use or build Language Technologies:

  • Andrés Domínguez (Crossminder, Belgium)
  • Moshe Wasserblat (NICE Systems, Israel)
  • Paul Heisterkamp (Daimler AG, Germany)
  • Anita Sempels (Wordbee SA, Luxembourg)
  • Pavlos Koulouris (Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece)
  • Judith Sastre (Inbenta, Spain)
  • Anita Pincas (Univ. of London; Simplicity Computers Ltd., UK)
Wrapping up – Jochen Hummel (ESTeam GmbH, Germany): "Introducing the Language Technology Business Association"
All presentations of this session in a single PDF file
09:45–10:30
 John Hendrik Weitzmann (Creative Commons Initiative, Germany) and Prodromos Tsiavos (Creative Commons Initiative, Greece, UK, Norway): Language Resources and Legal Issues: Problems and Solutions for Basic and Industrial Research

Coffee break
Invited Keynote Speech
Chair: Khalid Choukri (ELDA/ELRA, France)
11:00–11:45
 Swaran Lata (Department of Information Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, India): Indian Multilingual Initiatives – A holistic Perspective
Closing Session
11:45–12:15
 Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): "Founding META: Towards a Joint Action"

 

Room: "Foyer" (in front of "Theatre")

09:00–12:00
 META-NET Village: booths, posters and demos from all areas of META-NET
Chair: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)
  • META-SHARE demo – The open resource exchange facility designed and built by META-NET
  • The META-NET Virtual Information Centre
  • Machine Translation demos built by the META-NET line of action "Building Bridges to Neighbouring Technology Fields"
  • Poster presentations by the following EU-funded projects: ACCURAT, CLARIN, FLaReNet, Let's MT, MOLTO, Monnet, MultilingualWeb, PANACEA, PROMISE, TTC.