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META-NET Network Meeting 2013 - Programme

 

Friday, January 25, 2013
09:30 META-NET SRA and META-SHARE Launch Event (official part)
09:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome Georg Rehm, DFKI, Berlin, Germany
10:15 Opening Address Kimmo Rossi, European Commission
10:30 META-SHARE Launch Ceremony Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, RC "Athena", Athens, Greece
10:45 The History and Evolution of META-SHARE
META-SHARE: An Overview Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, RC "Athena", Athens, Greece
The Contribution of CESAR Tamás Váradi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
The Contribution of METANET4U Antonio Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal
The Contribution of META-NORD Andrejs Vasiljevs, Tilde, Latvia
The Contribution of ELRA Khalid Choukri, ELDA, Paris, France
11:20 Introducing the META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020 Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI, Berlin, Germany
11:45 Keynote Jun'ichi Tsujii, Microsoft Research Asia, China and National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester, UK
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 META-NET Network Meeting and General Assembly (internal part)
13:30 Introduction and overview Georg Rehm, DFKI, Berlin, Germany
13:40 Progress of the initiative and taking stock: Three years of META-NET Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI, Berlin, Germany
14:15 Discussion and finalisation of the next iteration of the roadmap of the field
14.15    Priority Theme 1 – Translingual Cloud Jan Hajic, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
14:35    Priority Theme 2 – Social Intelligence and e-Participation Marko Grobelnik, JSI, Ljubljana, Slovenia
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30    Priority Theme 3 – Socially-Aware Interactive Assistants Joseph Mariani, CNRS/LIMSI-IMMI, Paris, France
15:50    Core language resources and technologies Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, RC "Athena", Athens, Greece
16:10    General discussion Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI, Berlin, Germany; all
16:30 Election of the next META-NET Executive Board tba
17:00 META-NET: Quo vadis and future plans. Discussion and General Assembly Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR, Pisa, Italy; Walter Daelemans, CLiPS, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI, Berlin, Germany; Josef van Genabith, CNGL, Dublin, Ireland
17:45 Next steps Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI, Berlin, Germany
18:00 End of meeting