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META-FORUM 2015 - Programme

Programme

 

Download the official Programme Brochure (PDF)

Strategic Agenda for the multilingual Digital Single Market, Version 0.5 (PDF)

 

Poster Session
  • Poster Session with 24 posters from currently running or recently ended EU-funded language technology research projects (during the lunch break).

April 27, 2015

 

08:00 Registration


META-FORUM 2015 and Riga Summit 2015 – Opening Session
09:00 Introductory remarks [Video]
09:05 Opening Address by Lolita Čigāne, Head of the Committee of European Affairs of the Latvian Parliament [Slides, Video]
09:15 META-FORUM 2015: Technologies for the Multilingual Digital Single Market – The Strategic Agenda for the Multilingual DSM at a Glance
Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany; META-NET, CRACKER) [Slides, Video]
09:30 Opening Address by Edgars Rinkēvičs, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Latvia [Slides, Video]
09:40 Opening Keynote: Towards the Multilingual Digital Single Market – Research and Innovation Challenges
Márta Nagy-Rothengass (EC, DG CONNECT) [Slides, Video]
09:50 Five years of META-NET: Where do we go from here?
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany; META-NET) [Slides, Video]
Session 1: Text and Data Value Chains for the Multilingual Digital Single Market and European Data Economy
Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari (Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli”, Italy)
10:00 Industry Keynote: Challenges, Solutions and Visions for the Multilingual European Data Economy
Laure Le Bars (SAP, Germany; Deputy President of the Big Data Value Association PPP) [Slides, Video]
10:20 A Summary of Research Activities: Technologies – Demands – Gaps – Roadmaps
Presented by Dave Lewis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) – including contributions from multiple other EU-funded projects. [Slides, Video]
10:40 Open Discussion
With interventions by Vesna Lusicky (University of Vienna, Austria), Tatiana Gornostay (Tilde, Latvia) and Dan Tufiș (Romanian Academy). [Video]
11:00 Coffee Break and Technology Showcase


Session 2: Interactive Things and Technologies for the Multilingual Digital Single Market
Chair: Núria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
11:30 Industry Keynote: Challenges, Solutions and Visions for the Interactive Multilingual Digital Single Market
Rebecca Jonsson (Artificial Solutions, Sweden; Chief Researcher) [Slides, Video]
11:50 A Summary of Research Activities: Technologies – Demands – Gaps – Roadmaps
Presented by Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh, UK) – including contributions from multiple other EU-funded projects. [Slides, Video]
12:10 Open Discussion
With interventions by Joseph Mariani (CNRS-IMMI and LIMSI, France), Gábor Prószéky (MorphoLogic, Hungary), Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson (University of Iceland) and Alexander Waibel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany). [Video]
12:30 Lunch Break and Poster Session


Session 3: Multilingual Technologies for the Digital Single Market
Chair: António Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
13:30 Industry Keynote: Challenges, Solutions and Visions for the Multilingual Digital Single Market
Matthias Heyn (SDL, UK; VP Global Solutions) [Slides, Video]
13:50 A Summary of Research Activities: Technologies – Demands – Gaps – Roadmaps
Presented by Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) – including contributions from multiple other EU-funded projects. [Slides, Video]
14:10 Open Discussion
With interventions by Serge Gladkoff (GALA Europe), Kim Harris (text&form, Germany) and Svetla Koeva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). [Video]
Panel Discussion 1: The Language Communities – Joint Position Paper by NPLD (Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity) and EFNIL (European Federation of National Institutions for Language)
Moderator: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)
14:30 Panel Discussion [Slides, Position Paper, Video]
Participants:
  • Meirion Prys Jones (CEO Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity, UK; NPLD)
  • Delyth Prys (Bangor University, UK; NPLD)
  • Rickard Domeij (Language Council of Sweden; EFNIL)
  • Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen (Danish Language Council; EFNIL)
15:15 Coffee Break and Technology Showcase


Panel Discussion 2: Infrastructures, Platforms and Services for the multilingual Digital Single Market
Moderator: Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany)
15:45 Panel Discussion [Slides, Video]
Participants:
  • Stelios Piperidis (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece)
  • Khalid Choukri (ELRA/ELDA, France)
  • Steven Krauwer (CLARIN ERIC, The Netherlands)
  • Jochen Hummel (ESTeam, Sweden/Germany)
  • Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia)
  • Asunción Gómez Pérez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)


16:30 Award Ceremony – META Seal of Recognition, META Prize
Moderators: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) and Tamás Váradi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) [Slides, Video]
2015 Winners of the META Seal of Recognition
2015 Winner of the META Prize


17:00 Closing Session – Next Steps – End of META-FORUM 2015
Hans Uszkoreit and Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) [Slides]


17:30 META-NET Network Meeting and Executive Board Election
(internal meeting, META-NET only)


19:00 Cocktail Reception