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Meta-Forum 2011
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The video material of the conference can be found at http://videolectures.netCESAR in META-FORUM 2011
Solutions for Multilingual Europe June 27/28, 2011
Hotel Marriott, Budapest, Hungary |
June 27
Room: Function Lobby
08:00–18:00 |
Room: Budapest Ballroom
Opening Session | |
09:15–09:30 | Welcome address by Zsolt Nyitrai (Hungarian Secretary of State for ICT at the Ministry for National Development, Hungarian Government, Budapest) video |
09:30–09:45 | Welcome address by Zoran Stančič (Deputy Director-General at Directorate-General Information Society and Media, European Commission, Brussels) video |
09:45–10:00 | Special Guest: “Europe’s Languages and their Technology” |
10:00–10:15 | Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): “META, META-NET and META-FORUM” video |
Keynote Lecture | |
10:15–10:50 | Thomas Hofmann (Google, Switzerland): “Language Technologies for Better Internet Services” video1, video2, video3, video4 |
10:50–11:00 | Q/A - Discussio |
11:00–11:30 | Coffee break |
Session 1. Multilingual LT Research in Europe: Trends & Challenges | |
11:30–11:45 | Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University and Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Ireland): “An Overview of Multilingual LT Research in Europe” video |
11:45–12:00 | Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh, UK): “Moses: The Success of an Open-Source Machine Translation Platform” video |
12:00–12:15 | Jan Hajic (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic): “META-RESEARCH: Leading-Edge Machine Translation Research for Multilingual Europe” video |
12:15–12:30 | Q/A - Discussion video |
12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
Session 2. European Language Technology Industries | |
14:00–14:15 | Jochen Hummel (ESTeam GmbH, Germany, and LTBA, Language Technology Business Association): “Visibility for the European Industrial LT Landscape” (Slideshare) video |
14:15–14:30 | László Podhorányi (Vice Director General, Vodafone Hungary): “Interactive Language Technology at Vodafone” video |
14:30–14:45 | Johannes Bursch (Daimler, Head of Corporate Language Management, Germany): “Role and Challenges of the Corporate Language Management at Daimler AG” video |
14:45–15:00 | Laszlo Tihanyi (Morphologic, Director of Translation Business Unit, Hungary): “Introducing iTranslate4” video |
15:00–15:15 | Rose Lockwood (INMARK Estudios y Estrategias, S.A., Spain): “Language Technology – From Research to Innovation” video1, video2 |
| Q/A - Discussion video | |
Session 3. Supporting Innovation in Language Technology | |
15:15–15:40 | Roberto Cencioni (Head of Language Technologies & Machine Translation Unit, Directorate General for Information Society and Media, European Commission, Luxembourg): “EC support for LT – What has been done so far, what are the future perspectives?” video1, video2 |
15:40–16:05 | Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Research Centre “Athena”, Greece): “META-SHARE: An Open Resource Exchange Infrastructure for Stimulating Research and Innovation” video1, video2 |
| Q/A - Discussion video | |
16:05–16:40 | Coffee break |
Session 4. Are Europe's Languages in Danger? | |
16:40–16:55 | Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia): “The META-NET White Paper Series on European Languages” video1, video2 |
16:55–17:45 | Panel Discussion: Language Communities taking an Active Role in LT Research and Innovation with representatives from: Estonia: Kadri Vider (Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, Research Policy Department, Chief Expert) |
Keynote Lecture | |
17:45–18:15 | Bran Boguraev (IBM, TJ Watson Research Center, USA): “Building Watson: language technologies for Deep QA and the Jeopardy! challenge” |
18:15–18:30 | Q/A - Discussion |
June 28
Room: Budapest Ballroom
Session 5. European Institutions and Multilingual Language Technologies | |
09:15–09:35 | Conrad Toft (Interinstitutional Language Technology Watch, EESC, Belgium): “Language Technology at European Institutions” video1, video2 |
09:35–09:55 | Spyridon Pilos (Head of sector “Language Applications” Informatics Unit – Resources Directorate, Directorate General for Translation, European Commission, Luxembourg): “Machine Translation at the European Commission” video1, video2 |
09:55–10:10 | Q/A - Discussion video |
Session 6. Language Technologies for Multilingual Societies | |
10:10–11:00 | Panel Discussion: Multilingualism in Small and Large Regions with representatives of: India: Swaran Lata (Head of the Technology Development Programme for Indian Languages, Department of Information Technology, Government of India) South Africa: Justus Roux (North West University, member of the HLT Expert Panel of the South African Government)
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11:00–11:30 | Coffee break |
Session 7. Case Study: The Central and South Eastern European Perspective | |
11:30–11:45 | Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia): “The CESAR Project – enabling LRT for 70M+ Speakers” video1, video2 |
11:45–12:05 | Maciej Ogrodniczuk and Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences): “Polish LRTs – CESAR's story” video1, video2 |
12:05–12:25 | Svetla Koeva (Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): “Furthering LRT in Bulgaria” video |
12:25–12:45 | Tamás Váradi (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): “Hungarian Language Technology – From Platform to Alliance” video |
12:45–13:00 | Q/A - Discussion video |
13:00–14:30 | Lunch |
Session 8. A Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe | |
14:30–14:40 | Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): “Introduction” video |
14:40–15:00 | Joseph Mariani (CNRS/LIMSI, France): “The Future European Multilingual Information Society” video1, video2 |
15:00–15:30 | Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany): “The Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe – Summary of Discussions and Plan for Completion” video1, video2 |
15:30–16:00 | |
16:00–16:30 | Coffee break |
Session 9. META Prize and Seal of Recognition | |
16:30–17:00 | Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) and Josef van Genabith (DCU, CNGL), Ireland): META Prize and META Seal of Recognition Award Ceremony |
Closing Session | |
17:00–17:15 | Hans Uszkoreit: “META: Towards Multilingual Europe” |
Room: Lanchid
10:00–13:00 | LT Business Forum (organised by the European Commission, Luxembourg) |
Rooms: Function Lobby, Margit, István, Erzébet
09:00–17:00 |
