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META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020

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List of Key Contributors

The experts listed in the following contributed to this Strategic Research Agenda (54% from language technology user or provider industries, 46% from language technology research, 4% from national or international institutions). The Strategic Research Agenda is presented by the META Technology Council.

  1. Sophia Ananiadou, U. of Manchester, UK
  2. Sanne Andresen, Ordbogen, DK
  3. Toni Badia, Barcelona Media, ES
  4. Antonio Balvet, U. of Lille, FR
  5. Michaela Bartelt, Electronic Arts, GER/USA
  6. Christoph Bauer, ORF, AT
  7. Matthias Bärwolff, Tazaldoo, GER
  8. Caterina Berbenni-Rehm, Promis, LUX
  9. Juanjo Bermudez, Lingua e-Solutions SL, ES
  10. Henriette Edvarda Berntsen, Tansa, NO
  11. Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA, FR
  12. Hervé Bourland, IDIAP, CH
  13. Antonio Branco, U. of Lisbon, PT
  14. Andrew Bredenkamp, acrolinx, GER
  15. Anton Bregar, PL
  16. Gerhard Budin, U. of Vienna, AT
  17. Axel Buendia, Spir. Ops, FR
  18. Paul Buitelaar, DERI, IE
  19. Aljoscha Burchardt, DFKI, GER
  20. Will Burgett, Intel, USA
  21. Johannes Bursch, Daimler AG, GER
  22. Miriam Butt, U. of Konstanz, GER
  23. Nicoletta Calzolari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
  24. Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, IE
  25. Olga Caprotti, U. of Gothenburg, SE
  26. Jean Carrive, INA, FR
  27. Khalid Choukri, ELDA, FR
  28. Philipp Cimiano, U. of Bielefeld, GER
  29. Ann Copestake, U. of Cambridge, UK
  30. Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University, IL
  31. Morena Danieli, Loquendo, IT
  32. Christophe Declercq, Imperial College, UK
  33. Claude de Loupy, Syllabs, FR
  34. Maarten de Rijke, U. of Amsterdam, NL
  35. Koenraad De Smedt, U. of Bergen, NO
  36. István Dienes, HU
  37. Alice Dijkstra, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, NL
  38. Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext, BG
  39. Petar Djekic, SoundCloud, UK
  40. Bill Dolan, Microsoft, USA
  41. Rickard Domeij, Language Council of Sweden, SE
  42. Christoph Dosch, Institut für Rundfunktechnik, GER
  43. Christian Dugast, Tech2Biz, GER
  44. Ray Fabri, U. of Malta, MT
  45. Marcello Federico, FBK, IT
  46. David Filip, Moravia, CZ
  47. Dan Flickinger, Stanford Univ., USA
  48. Gil Francopoulo, CNRS/LIMSI, IMMI, Tagmatica, FR
  49. Piotr W. Fuglewicz, TiP, PL
  50. Robert Gaizauskas, U. of Sheffield, UK
  51. Martine Garnier-Rizet, CNRS/LIMSI and IMMI, FR
  52. Simon Garrett, British Telecom, UK
  53. Stefan Geissler, Temis, GER
  54. Edouard Geoffrois, Ministry of Defense and French Nat. Research Agency, FR
  55. Yota Georgakopolou, European Captioning Institute, UK
  56. Jost Gippert, U. of Frankfurt, GER
  57. Mircea Giurgiu, U. of Cluj-Napoca, RO
  58. Serge Gladkoff, Logrus International and GALA Standards Director, USA/RUS
  59. Daniel Grasmick, Lucy Software, GER
  60. Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, FR
  61. Marko Grobelnik, Institut “Jožef Stefan”, SI
  62. Joakim Gustafson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE
  63. Thomas Hagen, Dictatr AS, NO
  64. Jan Hajic, Charles U. Prague, CZ
  65. Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler AG, GER
  66. Mattias Heldner, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE
  67. Sebastian Hellmann, U. of Leipzig, GER
  68. Manuel Herranz, PangeaMT, ES
  69. Theo Hoffenberg, Softissimo, FR
  70. Thomas Hofmann, Google, CH/USA
  71. Timo Honkela, Aalto University, FI
  72. Roman Jansen-Winkeln, Belingoo Media Group, LUX
  73. Krzysztof Jassem, Poleng, PL
  74. Keith Jeffery, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Lab., UK
  75. Richard Jelinek, PetaMem GmbH, GER
  76. Kristiina Jokinen, U. of Helsinki, FI
  77. Rebecca Jonson, Artificial Solutions, ES
  78. John Judge, Dublin City U./CNGL, IE
  79. Martin Kay, Stanford University, USA and Universität des Saarlandes, GER
  80. Melih Karakulukcu, Karakulukcu Consulting, TR
  81. Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai, FI
  82. Marc Kemps-Snijders, Meertens Instituut, NL
  83. Ilan Kernerman, K Dictionaries, IL
  84. Christopher Kermorvant, A2iA, FR
  85. Simon King, U. of Edinburgh, UK
  86. Philipp Koehn, U. of Edinburgh, UK
  87. Maria Koutsombogera, ILSP, GR
  88. Steven Krauwer, U. of Utrecht, NL
  89. Verena Krawarik, APA, AT
  90. Stefan Kreckwitz, Across, GER
  91. Simon Krek, Institut “Jožef Stefan”, SI
  92. Brigitte Krenn, OFAI, AT
  93. Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, USA
  94. Michal Küfhaber, Skrivanek, CZ
  95. Serg Kulikov, Russian Acad. of Sciences, RUS
  1. Jimmy Kunzmann, EML, GER
  2. Gunn Inger Lyse Samdal, U. of Bergen, SE
  3. Bernardo Magnini, FBK, IT
  4. Gudrun Magnusdottir, ESTeam, SE
  5. Elisabeth Maier, CLS Communication, CH
  6. Joseph Mariani, CNRS/LIMSI and IMMI, FR
  7. Penny Marinou, Litterae Trans, GR
  8. Margaretha Mazura, EMF, UK/BE
  9. John McNaught, U. of Manchester, UK
  10. Erhan Mengusoglu, Mantis, TR
  11. Wolfgang Menzel, U. of Hamburg, GER
  12. Roger Moore, U. of Sheffield, UK
  13. Sukumar Munshi, Across, GER
  14. Bart Noe, Jabbla, BE
  15. Torbjørn Nordgård, LINGIT AS, NO
  16. Jan Odijk, U. of Utrecht, NL
  17. Stephan Oepen, U. of Oslo, NO
  18. Karel Oliva, Czech Acad. of Sciences, CZ
  19. Mehmed Özkan, Bogazici University, TR
  20. Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK
  21. Niko Papula, Mutilizer, FI
  22. Alexandre Passant, DERI, IE
  23. Pavel Pecina, Dublin City U./CNGL, IE
  24. Manfred Pinkal, Universität des Saarlandes, GER
  25. Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, GR
  26. László Podhorányi, Vodafone, HU
  27. Jörg Porsiel, VW, GER
  28. Gabor Proszeky, Morphologic, HU
  29. Artur Raczynski, European Patent Office, GER
  30. Jens Erik Rasmussen, Mikroverkstedet, NO
  31. Georg Rehm, DFKI, GER
  32. Steve Renals, U. of Edinburgh, UK
  33. Peter Revsbech, Ordbogen, DK
  34. Giuseppe Riccardi, U. of Trento, IT
  35. Daniel Ridings, Mikroverkstedet AS, LINGIT AS, NO
  36. Eirikur Rögnvaldsson, U. of Iceland, IS
  37. Philippe Rohou, ERCIM, FR
  38. Günther Roscher, ICS Dr. G. Roscher GmbH, GER
  39. Johann Roturier, Symantec, IE
  40. Dimitris Sabatakakis, Systran, FR
  41. David Sadek, Institute Telecom, FR
  42. Sergi Sagàs, MediaPro, ES
  43. Felix Sasaki, W3C and DFKI, GER
  44. Jana Šatková, ACP Traductera, CZ
  45. Maneerat Sawasdiwat, Rajamangala U. of Technology, TH
  46. David Schlangen, U. of Bielefeld, GER
  47. Jörg Schütz, Bioloom, GER
  48. Bjørn Seljebotn, Nynodata, NO
  49. Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, FR
  50. Mirko Silvestrini, Rapidrad, IT
  51. Ruud Smeulders, Rabo Bank, NL
  52. Svetlana Sokolova, ProMT, RUS
  53. Ralf Steinberger, JRC, EC, IT
  54. Juan Manuel Soto, Fonetic, ES
  55. Lucia Specia, U. of Sheffield, UK
  56. C. M. Sperberg-Mcueen, BlackMesa Technologies, USA
  57. Peter Spyns, Flemish Government, BE
  58. Maxim Stamenov, Bulgarian Acad. of Sciences, BG
  59. Kerstin Steffen, Maravision, ES
  60. Volker Steinbiss, RWTH Aachen and Accipio, GER
  61. Rudi Studer, KIT, GER
  62. Katerina Stuparicova, Charles U. Prague, CZ
  63. Daniel Tapias, Sigma Tech, ES
  64. Alessandro Tescari, Pervoice, IT
  65. Lori Thicke, Translators without Borders and Lexcelera, FR
  66. Gregor Thurmair, Linguatec, GER
  67. Rudy Tirry, Lionbridge, BE
  68. Attila Törcsvári, Arcanum Development, HU
  69. Diana Trandabat, U. of A. I. Cuza, RO
  70. Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID, PT
  71. Dan Tufis, Romanian Acad., RO
  72. Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI and Universität des Saarlandes, GER
  73. Erik van der Goot, Joint Research Center, EC, IT
  74. Peggy van der Kreeft, Deutsche Welle, GER
  75. Jaap van der Meer, TAUS, NL
  76. René van Erk, Wolters Kluwer, NL
  77. Josef van Genabith, Dublin City U./CNGL, IE
  78. Arjan van Hessen, Twente U. and Telecats, NL
  79. David van Leeuwen, TNO and Radboud University, NL
  80. Andrejs Vasiljevs, Tilde, LV
  81. Michel Vérel, VecSys, FR
  82. Kjersti Drøsdal Vikøren, Standard Norge AS, NO
  83. Bo Vincents, Ankiro, DK
  84. Claire Waast, EDF, FR
  85. Philippe Wacker, EMF, UK/BE
  86. Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI, GER
  87. Alex Waibel, KIT, GER and CMU, Jibbigo, USA
  88. Jürgen Wedekind, U. of Copenhagen, DK
  89. André Wlodarczyk, U. of Charles De Gaulle, FR
  90. Feiyu Xu, DFKI, GER
  91. Annie Zaenen, U. of Stanford, USA
  92. Jakub Zavrel, Textkernel, NL
  93. Patricia Zimmermann, SpeechConcept GmbH, GER
  94. Elie Znaty, VecSys, FR
  95. Chenqing Zong, Chinese Acad. of Sciences, CN