META-FORUM 2016 - Programme
META-FORUM 2016 Beyond Multilingual Europe
July 04/05, 2016
Lisbon, Portugal
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Programme
4 July 2016 – META-FORUM 2016 Day 1
08:30 | Registration |
09:30 | Opening Session |
09:30 | Welcome and Introduction Georg Rehm (DFKI; META-NET General Secretary) [Slides] |
09:45 | Welcome of the Local Organiser António Branco (University of Lisbon; META-NET) |
09:50 | Welcome Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague; Chair of META-NET) [Slides] |
10:00 | Opening Address Algirdas Saudargas (Member of the European Parliament) |
10:15 | The Data Economy and the Multilingual Digital Single Market – Aligning our Agendas |
Chair and moderator: Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde) | |
10:15 | The Big Data Value Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda Version 2.0 Milan Petkovic (Eindhoven University of Technology; Philips; BDVA) [Slides] Big Data Value Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda Version 2.0, January 2016 (PDF) |
10:30 | The Strategic Agenda for the Multilingual Digital Single Market Version 0.9 Georg Rehm (DFKI; META-NET) [Slides] Strategic Agenda for the Multilingual Digital Single Market Version 0.9, July 2016 |
10:45 | Panel discussion: Language as a Key Challenge for Big Data – Current state of play and future directions |
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11:15 | Poster Session and Coffee break |
Chair: Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen) | |
11:45 | Keynote Lecture |
Chair: Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI) | |
Multilingual Europe as a Challenge for Language Technology Ryan McDonald (Google) [Slides] |
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12:15 | Multilingual Technologies: Research and Innovation for the Multilingual Digital Single Market |
Chair: Josef van Genabith (DFKI) | |
12:15 | Invited presentation: Neural Machine Translation: Breaking the Performance Plateau Rico Sennrich (University of Edinburgh) [Slides] |
12:30 | Invited presentation: Deploying Machine Translation in an Industrial Setting: Challenges and Opportunities Tony O'Dowd (KantanMT) [Slides] |
12:45 | QTLeap: A European scientific research project on machine translation by deep language engineering approaches António Branco (University of Lisbon), Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI), Aljoscha Burchardt (DFKI), Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague), Martin Popel (Charles University in Prague), Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Markus Egg (Humboldt University Berlin), Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country), Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen), Filipe Barrancos (Higher Functions), Rosa Del Gaudio (Higher Functions), Gorka Labaka (University of the Basque Country) and João Silva (University of Lisbon) [Slides] |
12:55 | Machine Translation of Medical Text in the KConnect Project Petra Galusčáková, Jan Hajič, Jindřich Libovický, Pavel Pecina and Aleš Tamchyna (all Charles University in Prague) [Slides] |
13:05 | The EXPERT project: achievements and lessons learnt Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton) [Slides] |
13:15 | The Usage of Language Resources in the Web Portal for On-line Learning of Croatian (HR4EU) Matea Filko, Daša Farkaš, Diana Hriberski, Jurica Polančec and Marko Tadić (all University of Zagreb) [Slides] |
13:25 | Discussion |
13:35 | Poster Session and Lunch break |
14:30 | Interoperability of Quality – Is Language Technology ready to help us make Big Decisions with Big Data? Panel Discussion |
Moderator: Dave Lewis (Trinity College Dublin; ADAPT) | |
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15:15 | Towards an Update of the META-NET Strategic Research Agenda |
Moderator and session chair: Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI; Honorary Chair of META-NET) | |
16:00 | Poster Session and Coffee break |
16:30 | Text Analytics and Curation Technologies for the Multilingual Digital Single Market |
Chair: Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb) | |
16:30 | MixedEmotions: Social Semantic Emotion Analysis for Innovative Multilingual Big Data Analytics Markets Paul Buitelaar (National University of Ireland) and Ian Wood (National University of Ireland) [Slides] |
16:40 | The xLiMe Project: crossMedia knowledge extraction Achim Rettinger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), Ronald Denaux (Expert System Iberia), José Manuel Gómez Pérez (Expert System Iberia) and Marko Grobelnik (Jožef Stefan Institute) [Slides] |
16:50 | SUMMA: Scalable Understanding of Multilingual Media Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh) on behalf of the SUMMA Consortium [Slides] |
17:00 | From websites to apps, and now from apps to chatbots? António Branco (University of Lisbon) [Slides] |
17:10 | Smart Data Web, Smart Data for Mobility Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI) [Slides] |
17:20 | Curation Technologies for Multilingual Europe Georg Rehm (DFKI) [Slides] |
17:30 | Award Ceremony – META Seal of Recognition, META Prize |
Moderator: Georg Rehm (DFKI; META-NET General Secretary) [Slides] | |
2016 Winners of the META Seal of Recognition | |
2016 Winner of the META Prize | |
18:00 | End of Day 1 |
5 July 2016 – META-FORUM 2016 Day 2
08:00 | Registration |
09:00 | Strategies, Technologies and Infrastructures for Multilingual Europe |
Chair: Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague) | |
09:00 | Invited presentation: Language technologies in practice Alex Waibel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) |
09:15 | Roadmap for Spoken Language Technologies ROCKIT Consortium: Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh), Jean Carletta (University of Edinburgh), Keith Edwards (University of Edinburgh), Herve Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), Phil Garner (Idiap Research Institute), Andrei Popescu-Belis (Idiap Research Institute), Dietrich Klakow (Saarland University), Andrey Girenko (Saarland University), Volha Petukhova (Saarland University), Philippe Wacker (LT Innovate), Andrew Joscelyne (LT Innovate), Costis Kompis (Vodera), Simon Aliwell (Vodera) and Youssef Sabbah (Europe Unlimited) [Slides] |
09:25 | Improving digital vitality on the cheap András Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) [Slides] |
09:35 | Beyond Multilingual Europe: potentials and gaps of EU aid in language technologies for the world Han-Teng Liao (United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS)) [Slides] |
09:45 | From Dictionaries to Cross-lingual Lexical Resources: a New Paradigm for Old Needs Guadalupe Aguado de Cea (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Elena Montiel-Ponsoda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Ilan Kernerman (K Dictionaries) and Noam Ordan (K Dictionaries) [Slides] |
09:55 | Putting language and data standards and best practices into action: the FREME framework Felix Sasaki (DFKI) [Slides] |
10:05 | A Framework for Supporting Multilingual Resource Development at Expert System Ronald Denaux, Jaime Biosca and José Manuel Gómez Pérez (all Expert System Iberia) [Slides] |
10:15 | Discussion |
10:25 | Multilingual Europe: News and Recent Developments from the Language Communities – Panel Discussion |
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Joint NPLD-EFNIL Position paper on Language and Technology (PDF) | |
11:15 | Poster Session and Coffee break |
Chair: Maria Gavriilidou (ILSP, R.C. "Athena") | |
11:45 | Multilingual Technologies: Machine Translation in Public Services |
Chair: Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, R.C. "Athena") | |
11:45 | CEF.AT and its Role for the Multilingual Digital Single Market Spyridon Pilos (DG Translation, European Commission) [Slides] |
12:00 | Universal access to public services across language barriers Andrea Lösch (DFKI) and Josef van Genabith (DFKI) [Slides] |
12:15 | A Maturity Model for Public Administration Open Translation Data Providers Núria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Mikel L. Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant) and Asunción Gómez-Pérez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) [Slides] |
12:30 | Towards European Translation Cloud: Development of public MT services in the Baltic countries Andrejs Vasiļjevs (Tilde) and Rihards Kalniņš (Tilde) [Slides] |
12:45 | Poster Session and Lunch break |
13:45 | Towards a Shared Programme between European Countries and the European Union? A Panel Discussion with Representatives of Funding Agencies |
Moderator: Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) [Slides] | |
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14:45 | European Research Excellence in Language Technologies featuring ERC Grant Holders |
Moderator: Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh) | |
14:45 | MULTIJEDI: Multilingual Joint Word Sense Disambiguation Roberto Navigli (Sapienza – Università di Roma) [Slides] |
15:05 | BroadSem: Broad-Coverage Semantic Analysis Ivan Titov (University of Amsterdam) [Slides] |
15:25 | Poster Session and Coffee break |
16:00 | Platforms and Infrastructures for Multilingual Europe: Panel Discussion |
Moderator: Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague) [Slides] | |
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17:00 | Keynote |
Chair: Josef van Genabith (DFKI) | |
Language Technologies for a Multilingual Customer Experience Declan Groves (Microsoft) [Slides] |
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17:20 | Closing Session |
Chair: António Branco (University of Lisbon) | |
17:20 | Closing Address Maria Fernanda Rollo (Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Portuguese Government) |
17:40 | Closing Remarks Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague; Chair of META-NET) Georg Rehm (DFKI; META-NET General Secretary) [Slides] |
18:00 | End of META-FORUM 2016 |