META-FORUM 2011 - Programme
Solutions for Multilingual Europe
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June 27: META-FORUM 2011 (Day 1)
Room: Function Lobby
08:00–18:00 | Registration and conference desk |
Room: Budapest Ballroom
Opening Session |
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09:15–09:30 | Welcome address by Zsolt Nyitrai (Hungarian Secretary of State for ICT at the Ministry for National Development, Hungarian Government, Budapest) (video) |
09:30–09:45 | Welcome address by Zoran Stančič (Deputy Director-General at Directorate-General Information Society and Media, European Commission, Brussels) (video) |
09:45–10:00 | Special Guest: “Europe’s Languages and their Technology” |
10:00–10:15 | Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): “META, META-NET and META-FORUM” (video) |
Keynote Lecture Chair: Jan Odijk (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) |
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10:15–10:50 |
Thomas Hofmann (Google, Switzerland): “Language Technologies for Better Internet Services” (video) |
10:50–11:00 |
Q/A - Discussion |
11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break |
Session 1. Multilingual LT Research in Europe: Trends & Challenges Chair: Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal) |
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11:30–11:45 |
Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University and Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Ireland): “An Overview of Multilingual LT Research in Europe” (video) |
11:45–12:00 |
Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh, UK): “Moses: The Success of an Open-Source Machine Translation Platform” (video) |
12:00–12:15 |
Jan Hajic (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic): “META-RESEARCH: Leading-Edge Machine Translation Research for Multilingual Europe” (video) |
12:15–12:30 |
Q/A - Discussion (video) |
12:30–14:00 |
Lunch |
Session 2. European Language Technology Industries Chair: Adriane Rinsche (LTC, UK) |
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14:00–14:15 |
Jochen Hummel (ESTeam GmbH, Germany, and LTBA, Language Technology Business Association): “Visibility for the European Industrial LT Landscape” (Slideshare) (video) |
14:15–14:30 |
László Podhorányi (Vice Director General, Vodafone Hungary): “Interactive Language Technology at Vodafone” (video) |
14:30–14:45 | Johannes Bursch (Daimler, Head of Corporate Language Management, Germany): “Role and Challenges of the Corporate Language Management at Daimler AG” (video) |
14:45–15:00 | Laszlo Tihanyi (Morphologic, Director of Translation Business Unit, Hungary): “Introducing iTranslate4” (video) |
15:00–15:15 | Rose Lockwood (INMARK Estudios y Estrategias, S.A., Spain): “Language Technology – From Research to Innovation” (video) Q/A - Discussion (video) |
Session 3. Supporting Innovation in Language Technology Chair: Gudrun Magnusdottir (ESTeam, Sweden) |
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15:15–15:40 |
Roberto Cencioni (Head of Language Technologies & Machine Translation Unit, Directorate General for Information Society and Media, European Commission, Luxembourg): “EC support for LT – What has been done so far, what are the future perspectives?” (video) |
15:40–16:05 |
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Research Centre “Athena”, Greece): “META-SHARE: An Open Resource Exchange Infrastructure for Stimulating Research and Innovation” (video) Q/A - Discussion (video) |
16:05–16:40 |
Coffee break |
Session 4. Are Europe's Languages in Danger? |
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16:40–16:55 |
Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia): “The META-NET White Paper Series on European Languages” (video) |
16:55–17:45 |
Panel Discussion: Language Communities taking an Active Role in LT Research and Innovation with representatives from:
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Keynote Lecture Chair: Tamás Varadi (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) |
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17:45–18:15 |
Bran Boguraev (IBM, TJ Watson Research Center, USA): “Building Watson: language technologies for Deep QA and the Jeopardy! challenge” |
18:15–18:30 |
Q/A - Discussion |
Rooms: Function Lobby, Margit, István, Erzébet
09:00–18:00 |
META Exhibition |
June 28, META-FORUM 2011 (Day 2)
Room: Budapest Ballroom
Session 5. European Institutions and Multilingual Language Technologies Chair: Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen, Norway) |
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09:15–09:35 |
Conrad Toft (Interinstitutional Language Technology Watch, EESC, Belgium): “Language Technology at European Institutions” (video) |
09:35–09:55 |
Spyridon Pilos (Head of sector “Language Applications” Informatics Unit – Resources Directorate, Directorate General for Translation, European Commission, Luxembourg): “Machine Translation at the European Commission” (video) |
09:55–10:10 |
Q/A - Discussion (video) |
Session 6. Language Technologies for Multilingual Societies | |
10:10–11:00 |
Panel Discussion: Multilingualism in Small and Large Regions with representatives of:
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11:00–11:30 | Coffee break |
Session 7. Case Study: The Central and South Eastern European Perspective Chair: Khalid Choukri (ELDA, France) |
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11:30–11:45 |
Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia): “The CESAR Project – enabling LRT for 70M+ Speakers” (video) |
11:45–12:05 |
Maciej Ogrodniczuk and Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences): “Polish LRTs – CESAR's story” (video) |
12:05–12:25 |
Svetla Koeva (Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): “Furthering LRT in Bulgaria” |
12:25–12:45 |
Tamás Váradi (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): “Hungarian Language Technology – From Platform to Alliance” (video) |
12:45–13:00 |
Q/A - Discussion (video) |
13:00–14:30 |
Lunch |
Session 8. A Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR, Italy) |
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14:30–14:40 |
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): “Introduction” (video) |
14:40–15:00 |
Joseph Mariani (CNRS/LIMSI, France): “The Future European Multilingual Information Society” (video) |
15:00–15:30 |
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): “The Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe – Summary of Discussions and Plan for Completion” (video) |
15:30–16:00 |
Q/A - Discussion (video) |
16:00–16:30 |
Coffee break |
Session 9. META Prize and Seal of Recognition |
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16:30–17:00 |
Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) and Josef van Genabith (DCU, CNGL), Ireland): META Prize and META Seal of Recognition Award Ceremony |
Closing Session |
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17:00–17:15 |
Hans Uszkoreit: “META: Towards Multilingual Europe” |
Room: Lanchid
10:00–13:00 |
LT Business Forum (organised by the European Commission, Luxembourg) |
Rooms: Function Lobby, Margit, István, Erzébet
09:00–17:00 |
META Exhibition |
June 29, META-FORUM Satellite Event (Danubius Gellert Hotel)
09:00–13:00 |
PANACEA Users' Workshop An independent workshop of one of our partner projects, this satellite event offers users of Language Resources a meeting point where they can discuss easier ways to provide their businesses and technology with much needed Language Resources. This event is taking place at the Danubius Gellert Hotel. |
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