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META-FORUM 2012 - Programme

Programme

 

Satellite events:
  • META Exhibition: expo with more than 40 exhibits, booths and stands from research and industry. Running concurrently with META-FORUM 2012 in the Gallery and in room Adolphe Max.
  • Inter-service group on Language Technology meeting (organised by the EC).

Day 1 – June 20, 2012

 

09:15 - 09:45 Opening Session

09:45 - 11:00 Session: Europe and its Languages – Joint session by META-NET and EFNIL (European Federation of National Institutions for Language)
09:45
Opening – Algirdas Saudargas (MEP, Lithuania)
09:50
Introductory Talk – András Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest): "Language Death in the Digital Age"
10:00
Bolette Sandford Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): "The META-NET Language White Paper Series: Overview and Key Results"
10:10
Panel with Representatives of the EFNIL Language Communities:
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:55

Session: Industry and Innovation – Language Technology Made in Europe

Chair: Bernardo Magnini (FBK, Italy)
11:30 Translation and Language Services: Serge Gladkoff (GALA Standards Director, GALA Board member; President, Logrus International Cooperation, Russia/USA)
11:40 Text Analytics and Big Data: Tomás Pariente (Atos Research & Innovation, Spain)
11:50 Machine Translation: Radu Soricut (Manager of Application Science & Engineering and Senior Research Scientist, SDL International, UK/USA)
12:00 Future Media: George Wright (Head of the Internet Research & Future Services Team, BBC Research, UK)
12:10 Controlled Language: Florence Beaujard (Head of Linguistics and Physiology Group, Airbus, France)
12:20 Localization and Language Services: Lori Thicke (CEO, Lexcelera Localization, France)
12:30 Discussion

12:55-14:00

Lunch break

14:00-16:00 Session: Language Technologies for Europe 2020 – Joint session by META-NET and LT Innovate

 

 

14:00

Chair and Moderator: Roberto Cencioni (European Commission, Luxembourg)

Joint opening:

Introduction and Presentation of Partnership. Georg Rehm (META-NET; DFKI, Germany)

14:10

Introducing LT Innovate. Jochen Hummel (LT Innovate; ESTeam, Sweden)

14:25 The META-NET Strategic Research Agenda: Overview, Preparation, Dissemination. Hans Uszkoreit (META-NET; DFKI, Germany)
14:40 The SRA Research Priority Themes for Multilingual Europe 2020
15:10 The LT-Innovate Innovation Themes: iEnterprise, iHealth, iHelpers, iServices, iSkills. Moderator: Ruben Riestra (Senior Advisor, LT-Innovate)
    • Rubén Riestra (INMARK International Area)
    • Rose Lockwood (INMARK International Area)
    • Philippe Wacker (EMF)
    • Paul Welham (CereProc Ltd.)
    • Claude de Loupy (Syllabs)
    • Jochen Hummel (ESTeam AB)
    • Adriane Rinsche (Language Technology Centre Ltd.)
    • Jochen Hummel (ESTeam AB)
15:45 Discussion
16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Session: LT Fireworks – Research, Innovation and Technology – META Prize and META Seal of Recognition Award Ceremony

 

 Moderators: Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR, Italy) and Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)
  • The winners of the META Prize and the META Seal of Recognition were voted on by the META Technology Council.
  • 2012 winners of the META Seal of Recognition:
    • Language Weaver: Radu Soricut
    • Phonexia s.r.o.: Radim Kudla
    • Audioma-Box by PerVoice SpA: Alessandro Tescari
    • Asia Online: Kirti Vashee, Dion Wiggins
    • XFST by Xerox: Lauri Karttunen
    • IPTranslator by PLuTO: Heidi Depraetere
    • Kantan MT by Xcelerator.ie: Tony O´Dowd
    • European Media Lab GmbH: Siegfried Kunzmann
    • Voxsigma Software Suite by Vocapia Research: Joseph Mariani
    • Extract! by Textkernel: Jakub Zavrel
    • IRSTLM Toolkit by FBK: Bernardo Magnini
  • 2012 winner of the META Prize:
    • JRC Optima Activity/Language Technology: Erik van der Goot

Day 2 – June 21, 2012

 

09:30 - 10:30 Session: Plans for LT Research and Innovation on the European Level
Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR, Italy)
09:30 Horizon 2020 and Connecting Europe Facility (CEF): Kimmo Rossi (Language Technologies & Machine Translation Unit, Directorate General for Information Society and Media, European Commission, Luxembourg)
09:50 Final 2012/2013 calls in FP7: Roberto Cencioni (Language Technologies & Machine Translation Unit, Directorate General for Information Society and Media, European Commission, Luxembourg)
10:10 Discussion, Q/A
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Session: META-SHARE: An Open Resource Exchange Infrastructure
Chair: Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)
11:00 Overview, Current State, Towards Version 3 of META-SHARE. Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)
11:30 The contribution of CESAR. Tamás Varadi (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
11:40 The contribution of METANET4U. Antonio Branco (Univ. Lisbon, Portugal)
11:50 The contribution of META-NORD. Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia)
12:00 META-SHARE in 2013 and beyond – Q/A and Panel Discussion
  • Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal; Coordinator of METANET4U)
  • Khalid Choukri (ELDA/ELRA, France)
  • Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece; Supervisor of META-SHARE; President of ELRA)
  • Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany; Coordinator of T4ME and META-NET)
  • Tamás Varadi (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary; Coordinator of CESAR)
  • Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia; Coordinator of META-NORD)
  • Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway; moderator)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 Session: Plans for LT Research and Innovation in Member States and Regions

Chair and Moderator: Joseph Mariani (CNRS-LIMSI/IMMI, France)

  • Short presentations by representatives of national and regional funding agencies about national plans and international connections and synergies.
    • Hungary: Károly Gruber, Hungarian Ambassador to Brussels
    • Bulgaria: Diana Popova, Senior expert, Science Directorate, Ministry of Education, Youth and Science
    • Czech Republic: Karel Oliva, member of the Council of Research, Development and Innovations of the Czech Republic, head of the Institute of the Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences
    • France: Edouard Geoffrois, Ministry of Defense and French National Research Agency
    • The Netherlands: Alice Dijkstra, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
    • Slovenia: Simona Bergoc, Department for Slovene Language, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport
  • Panel discussion on how to initiate and structure the cooperation between the member state or regional level and the European level with representatives of national and regional funding agencies
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 Keynote Lecture: Fernando Pereira (Google Inc.): "Low-Pass Semantics"

17:00 - 17:15 Closing Session: Next Steps and Future Plans

http://www.meta-net.eu/events/meta-forum-2011/press-release