Challenges for Multilingual Europe |
08:30 | Registration and conference desk |
Opening Session |
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09:30–09:45 |
Algirdas Saudargas, Member of European Parliament: Welcome Address |
09:45–10:00 | Roberto Cencioni (EC, Luxembourg): Greeting Address |
10:00–10:15 | Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): META-NET and META-FORUM: An Overview |
Invited Keynote Speech |
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Chair: Jan Odijk (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
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10:15–11:00 |
Yota Georgakopoulou (European Captioning Institute, UK): Challenges for the Audiovisual industry in the Digital Age: Accessibility and Multilingualism |
Coffee break |
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Interactive Session: From Shared Visions to a Strategic Research Agenda |
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Chair: Josef van Genabith (DCU and CNGL, Ireland) |
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11:30–11:50 |
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): Introduction – Towards Visions for Language Technology in Multilingual Europe |
11:50–12:00 |
Phillippe Wacker (EMF, UK): Preliminary findings of the Vision Group "Media and Information Services" |
12:00–12:10 |
Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA; University of Karlsruhe, Germany): Preliminary findings of the Vision Group "Interactive Systems" |
12:10–12:20 |
Jörg Porsiel (Volkswagen AG, Germany): Preliminary findings of the Vision Group "Translation and Localisation" |
12:20–13:00 |
Panel Discussion: From Vision Group meetings and online discussions to a Strategic Research Agenda. Participants: Philippe Wacker, Alex Waibel, Jörg Porsiel, Joseph Mariani (LIMSI/CNRS, France), Josef van Genabith, Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece). |
Lunch |
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Session Language Technology in Europe and Upcoming Funding Opportunities |
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Invited Keynote Speech |
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Chair: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) |
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14:00–14:30 |
Georg Artelsmair (European Patent Office, Germany): Recent Developments in Machine Translation Policy at the European Patent Office |
14:30–16:30 | Roberto Cencioni (European Commission, Luxembourg): EC Info-Session on Upcoming Calls and further Actions in Support of Language Technology and Innovation |
Coffee Break |
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Session: Towards Collaboration and Cooperation in Research and Sharing of Language Resources on a European Scale |
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Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR, Italy) |
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17:00–17:30 |
Jan Hajic (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic): Building Bridges using Innovative Approaches in Machine Translation |
17:30–18:00 |
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece): META-SHARE: The Open Resource Exchange Facility |
Invited Keynote Speech |
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Chair: Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany) |
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18:00–18:30 |
Bill Dolan (Microsoft Research, USA): Building Partnerships with Language Communities: The Importance of Shared Technology and Shared Data |
11:00–18:00 |
META-NET Village: booths, posters and demos from all areas of META-NET |
Chair: Bernardo Magnini (FBK, Italy) |
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Session Language Technology in Practice: Needs – Problems – Wishes |
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Chair: Toni Badia (Barcelona Media, Spain) |
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09:00–09:45 |
"Language Technology Companies and their Expectations towards Research Organisations and Funding Agencies". Introduction – Hanna Klimek (EC, Luxembourg): "Towards a Business Forum for Language-Technology Stakeholders" Short statements by representatives from companies that use or build Language Technologies:
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All presentations of this session in a single PDF file |
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09:45–10:30 |
John Hendrik Weitzmann (Creative Commons Initiative, Germany) and Prodromos Tsiavos (Creative Commons Initiative, Greece, UK, Norway): Language Resources and Legal Issues: Problems and Solutions for Basic and Industrial Research |
Coffee break |
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Invited Keynote Speech |
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Chair: Khalid Choukri (ELDA/ELRA, France) |
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11:00–11:45 |
Swaran Lata (Department of Information Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, India): Indian Multilingual Initiatives – A holistic Perspective |
Closing Session |
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11:45–12:15 |
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): "Founding META: Towards a Joint Action" |
09:00–12:00 |
META-NET Village: booths, posters and demos from all areas of META-NET |
Chair: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) |
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