Solutions for Multilingual
June 27/28, 2011 Hotel Marriott,
Programme
June 27, META-FORUM 2011 (Day 1)
Room:
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,
09:30–09:45 Welcome
address by Zoran Stančič
(Deputy Director-General at Directorate-General Information Society and Media,
European Commission, Brussels)
09:45–10:00 Special
Guest: “
10:00–10:15 Hans
Uszkoreit (DFKI,
Keynote Lecture
Chair: Jan Odijk (
10:15–10:50 Thomas
Hofmann (
10:50–11:00 Q/A
- Discussion
Session 1. Multilingual LT Research in
Chair: Antonio Branco (
11:30–11:45 Josef
van Genabith (
11:45–12:00 Philipp Koehn (
12:00–12:15 Jan Hajic (
12:15–12:30 Q/A
- Discussion
Session 2. European Language Technology Industries
Chair: Adriane Rinsche (
14:00–14:15 Jochen Hummel (ESTeam
14:15–14:30 László Podhorányi (Vice Director
General, Vodafone
14:30–14:45 Johannes
Bursch (Daimler, Head of Corporate Language
Management,
14:45–15:00 Laszlo
Tihanyi (Morphologic, Director of Translation
Business Unit,
15:00–15:15 Rose
Lockwood (INMARK
Session 3. Supporting Innovation in Language Technology
Chair: Gudrun Magnusdottir (
15:15–15:40 Roberto
Cencioni (Head of Language Technologies & Machine
Translation Unit, Directorate General for Information Society and Media,
European Commission,
15:40–16:05 Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Research
Centre
Session 4. Are
16:40–16:55 Andrejs Vasiljevs (
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)
Lithuania: Rimvydas Vaštakas
(Vice-Minister, Ministry of Transport and Communications) Netherlands, Belgian
Flanders, Suriname: Peter Spyns (Dutch Language
Union, Nederlandse Taalunie)
Denmark: Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen (Director of the
Danish Language Council, Copenhagen) Moderator: Algirdas
Saudargas (Member of the European Parliament,
Lithuania/Belgium)
Keynote
Lecture
Chair: Tamás Varadi (Research Institute
for Linguistics,
17:45–18:15 Bran
Boguraev (IBM, TJ Watson Research Center,
USA): “Building Watson: language technologies for Deep QA and the Jeopardy! challenge” [not available]
18:15–18:30 Q/A
– Discussion
June 28, META-FORUM 2011 (Day 2)
Room:
Session 5. European Institutions and
Multilingual Language Technologies
Chair: Koenraad De Smedt (
09:15–09:35 Conrad
Toft (Interinstitutional
Language Technology Watch, EESC,
09:35–09:55 Spyridon Pilos (Head of sector
“Language Applications” Informatics Unit – Resources Directorate, Directorate
General for Translation, European Commission,
09:55–10:10 Q/A
-Discussion
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) Catalonia: Marta Xirinachs (Government of
Catalonia, Linguamón – House of Languages, Spain)
Wales: Jeremy Evas (Welsh Language Board) Moderator: Spyridon Pilos (European
Commission, Luxembourg)
Session 7. Case Study: The Central and South Eastern European Perspective
Chair: Khalid Choukri (
11:30–11:45 Marko
Tadic (
11:45–12:05
Maciej Ogrodniczuk and Adam Przepiórkowski
(
12:05–12:25 Svetla Koeva (Institute for Bulgarian Language,
12:25–12:45 Tamás Váradi (Research Institute
for Linguistics,
12:45–13:00 Q/A
-Discussion
Session 8. A Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual
Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR,
14:30–14:40 Hans Uszkoreit
(DFKI,
14:40–15:00 Joseph Mariani
(CNRS/LIMSI, France): “The Future European
Multilingual Information Society”
15:00–15:30 Hans Uszkoreit
(DFKI,
15:30–16:00 Q/A -Discussion
Session 9.
16:30–17:00 Georg
Rehm (DFKI,
Closing Session
17:00–17:15 Hans
Uszkoreit: “