META-FORUM 2011
Solutions for Multilingual
June 27/28, 2011
Hans Uszkoreit:
Thomas Hofmann: Language technologies for better intenet services [not available]
Session 1: Multilingual LT research in
Chair: Antonio Branco
Josef van Genabith: An Overview of Multilingual LT Research in Europe
Philipp Koehn: Moses: The Success of an Open-Source Machine Translation Platform
Jan Hajic: META-RESEARCH: Leading-Edge Machine Translation Research for Multilingual Europe
Session 2: European Language Technology Industries
Chair: Adriane Rinsche
Jochen Hummel: Visibility for the European Industrial LT Landscape
László Podhorányi: Interactive Language Technology at Vodafone
Johannes Bursch: Role and Challenges of the Corporate Language Management at Daimler AG
Laszlo Tihanyi: Introducing iTranslate4
Rose Lockwood: Language Technology – From Research to Innovation
Session 3: Supporting Innovation in Language Technology
Chair: Gudrun Magnusdottir
Roberto Cencioni: EC support for LT – What has been done so far, what are the future perspectives?
Stelios Piperidis: META-SHARE: An Open Resource Exchange Infrastructure for Stimulating Research and Innovation
Session 4: Are
Andrejs Vasiljevs: The META-NET White Paper Series on European Languages
Panel discussion: Kadri Vider, Rimvydas Vaštakas, Peter Spyns, Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen, Algirdas Saudargas
Keynote lecture:
Bran Boguraev: “Building Watson: language technologies for Deep QA and the Jeopardy! challenge” [not available]
Day 2, June 28
Session 5: European Institutions and Multilingual Language Technologies
Chair: Koenraad de Smedt
Conrad Toft: Language Technology at European Institutions
Spyridon Pilos: Machine Translation at the European Commission
Session 6: Language Technologies for Multilingual Societies
Panel discussion: Swaran Lata, Justus Roux, Marta Xirinachs, Jeremy Evans, Spyridon Pilas
Session 7: Case study: The Central and South Eastern European
Perspective
Chair: Khalid Choukri
Marko Tadic: The CESAR Project – enabling LRT for 70M+ Speakers
Maciej Ogrodniczuk and Adam Przepiórkowski: Polish LRTs – CESAR's story
Svetla Koeva: Furthering LRT in Bulgaria
Tamás Váradi: Hungarian Language Technology – From Platform to Alliance
Session 8: A Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual
Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari
Hans Uszoreit: Introduction
Joseph Mariani: The Future European Multilingual Information Society
Hans Uszoreit: The Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe – Summary of Discussions and Plan for Completion
Session 9:
Georg Rehm and Josef van Genabith: META Prize and META Seal of Recognition Award Ceremony
Closing Session
Hans Uskoreit:
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