META-FORUM 2015 - Programme
Technologies for the Multilingual Digital Single Market April 27, 2015
Riga, Latvia
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Programme
Download the official Programme Brochure (PDF)
Strategic Agenda for the multilingual Digital Single Market, Version 0.5 (PDF)
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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] |
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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] |
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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 | |
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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 |