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An international event on powerful Language Technologies for the multilingual European information society
CESAR Road show in Bulgaria, May 2, 2012 Sofia, Hotel Sheraton
An international event on powerful Language Technologies for the multilingual European information society.
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30-10:00 | Opening. Welcome address by Petya Evtimova, Deputy Minister of Education, Youth and Science. Welcome address by Mr. Hristo Hristov, Head of Department Project Management, Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications. Welcome address by the Governing Board of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 10:00-10:40 | Roberto Cencioni, Head of Language Technologies & Machine Translation Unit, Directorate General for Information Society and Media, European Commission: Technologies for Europe's Information Society: А Broad Overview |
| 10:40-11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10-11:50 | Hans Uszkoreit, META-NET Coordinator: Language Technology for Europe: Chances, Needs and Plans |
| 11:50-12:20 | Tamas Varadi, CESAR coordinator: Supporting Multilingual Europe: CESAR Initiative |
| 12:20-12:45 | Discussion |
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:15 | Totka Chernaeva, Head of the Information and Communication Technologies unit at the Ministry of Transport, IT and Communications: Supporting ICT Policies along the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) |
| 14:15-14:30 | Atanas Kiryakov, CEO, Ontotext: Empowering Dynamic Semantic Publishing at the BBC |
| 14:30-14:45 | Mr. Luchezar Jackov, CTO, SkyCode Ltd.: iTranslate4.eu: Еuropean Portal for Machine Translation |
| 14:45-15:00 | Mr. Diman Karagyozov, CTO, Tetracom: Widening the Scope. Harnessing NLP Techniques in Content Management Systems |
| 15:00-15:15 | Stefan Gerdzhikov, Stoyan Mihov (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University): On Modernization of Historical Texts |
| 15:15-15:30 | Zapryan Kozludzhov, Zhivko Ivanov, Assoc. Petya Barkalova (Plovdiv University): Language Technology Education at the Faculty of Literature and Languages at the Plovdiv University |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-16:40 | Panel discussion: Bulgarian Language in the Digital Age |
| 16:40-17:00 | General discussion. Closing |
Parallel event:
A demo session and exhibition of LT products by industrial partners and sponsors, and research projects at national and international level
From 10:30 (coffee break)
Until: 14:00 (lunch)
