META-FORUM 2012 - Programme
A Strategy for Multilingual Europe |
Programme
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Day 1 – June 20, 2012
09:15 - 09:45 | Opening Session |
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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:
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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)
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11:40 | Text Analytics and Big Data: Tomás Pariente (Atos Research & Innovation, Spain)
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11:50 | Machine Translation: Radu Soricut (Manager of Application Science & Engineering and Senior Research Scientist, SDL International, UK/USA)
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12:00 | Future Media: George Wright (Head of the Internet Research & Future Services Team, BBC Research, UK)
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12:10 | Controlled Language: Florence Beaujard (Head of Linguistics and Physiology Group, Airbus, France)
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12:20 | Localization and Language Services: Lori Thicke (CEO, Lexcelera Localization, France)
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12:30 | Discussion
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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)
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14:40 | The SRA Research Priority Themes for Multilingual Europe 2020
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15:10 | The LT-Innovate Innovation Themes: iEnterprise, iHealth, iHelpers, iServices, iSkills. Moderator: Ruben Riestra (Senior Advisor, LT-Innovate) |
15:45 | Discussion
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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 |
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Moderators: Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR, Italy) and Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)
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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)
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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)
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10:10 | Discussion, Q/A
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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)
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11:30 | The contribution of CESAR. Tamás Varadi (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
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11:40 | The contribution of METANET4U. Antonio Branco (Univ. Lisbon, Portugal)
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11:50 | The contribution of META-NORD. Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia)
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12:00 | META-SHARE in 2013 and beyond – Q/A and Panel Discussion
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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)
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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 |