META-VISION

One of the main objectives of META-NET is our Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020 (SRA). The agenda contains high-level recommendations, ideas for visionary LT-based applications and suggestions for joint actions to be presented to the EC and national as well as regional bodies.

Apart from the public at large which can participate in the whole process via an online discussion forum, a total of four groups were involved in the vision building process. The main task of the three domain-specific Vision Groups (Translation and Localisation, Media and Information Services, Interactive Systems, see below) was to produce ideas and concepts for visionary LT-based applications within their respective domains and to provide input for technology forecasts.

The fourth group involved in the vision building process is the META Technology Council. The reports on the accumulated and condensed findings produced by the Vision Groups were discussed and processed by the META Technology Council which had its inaugural meeting on November 16, 2010, in Brussels, with follow-up meetings in Venice (May 25, 2011), Berlin (September 30, 2011) and, again, Brussels (June 19, 2012). The Council consolidated the input collected from Vision Groups and multiple discussions with the community into a first version of the Strategic Research Agenda which was published on July 11, 2012. The SRA will be used to convey META’s message to policy makers, private and public sponsors and the general public.

Update, July 11, 2012: The first version of META-NET's Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020 has been published!

Update, March 23, 2011: An important intermediate result of the META-VISION process is the document The Future European Multilingual Information Society (PDF).

Members and Participants

• List of all Vision Group members
• List of META Technology Council members

Vision Group Translation and Localisation

Fields

Technical documentation, consumer information, official bulletins, user interface localisation, games, services, etc.

Stakeholders

Software companies, game companies, large users of translation services, translation companies, localisation industry, etc.

Meetings

Berlin, Germany, July 23rd, 2010; Brussels, Belgium, September 29th, 2010; Prague, Czech Republic, April 7/8, 2011

Conveners

Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany) and Josef van Genabith (DCU/CNGL, Ireland)

Members

Members of this Vision Group

Presentations

Presentation given by Jörg Porsiel (META-FORUM 2010)
Presentation given by Josef van Genabith (META Technology Council meeting)
Presentations given by Joseph Mariani and Hans Uszkoreit (META-FORUM 2011)
Presentation given by Andrejs Vasiljevs (META-FORUM 2012)

Report

Results of the first two meetings (draft)

Vision Group Media and Information Services

Fields

Audiovisual sector, news, digital libraries, portals, search engines, etc.

Stakeholders

Media industries, web and search engine providers, archives, etc.

Meetings

Paris, France, September 10, 2010; Barcelona, Spain, October 15th, 2010; Vienna, Austria, April 1, 2011

Conveners

Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece) and Margaretha Mazura (EMF, Belgium/UK)

Members

Members of this Vision Group

Presentations

Presentation given by Philippe Wacker (META-FORUM 2010)
Presentation given by Stelios Piperidis (META Technology Council meeting)
Presentations given by Joseph Mariani and Hans Uszkoreit (META-FORUM 2011)
Presentation given by Marko Grobelnik (META-FORUM 2012)

Report

Results of the first two meetings (draft)

Vision Group Interactive Systems

Fields

Mobile assistance, dialogue translation, call centres, etc.

Stakeholders

Mobile software and service providers, telecom industry, call centres, games industries, etc.

Meetings

Paris, France, September 10, 2010; Prague, Czech Republic, October 5th, 2010; Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 28, 2011

Conveners

Joseph Mariani (LIMSI/CNRS, France) and Bernardo Magnini (FBK, Italy)

Members

Members of this Vision Group

Presentations

Presentation given by Alex Waibel (META-FORUM 2010)
Presentation given by Joseph Mariani (META Technology Council meeting)
Presentations given by Joseph Mariani and Hans Uszkoreit (META-FORUM 2011)
Presentation given by Joseph Mariani (META-FORUM 2012)

Report

Results of the first two meetings (draft)