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for multiple postings**</span></big></b></p>
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We are pleased to announce that the <b>third FLaReNet Forum "<i>Language
Resources in the Sharing Age - the Strategic Agenda</i>"</b>
will take place in Venice, Italy, 26 and 27 May 2011, in the
beautiful setting of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a
href="http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=45619&image=5"><span
style="color: blue;" lang="EN-US">Auditorium Santa
Margherita</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-US">, Ca' Foscari University. </span></p>
<p class="body1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Following
the usual successful formula, the third Forum is conceived as a
collaborative workshop designed to raise discussion in a very
interactive way, thus creating a breeding ground for open
questions, new ideas and visions for the field of Language
Resources/Technologies.</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">The
Venice Forum sessions are devoted to the following topics:
Identification and tracking of Language Resources; Open Data; Go
green: reuse, repurpose, and recycle resources; Innovation needs
data; Data for all languages: think big; Long life to our
resources; From recommendations to actions: what’s next?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">A
description of the sessions is now available on the web site
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.flarenet.eu/">http://www.flarenet.eu/</a>).<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><u>*Registration
now open*</u><br>
Participation to the Forum is open but subject to online
registration due to the limited number of admissible
participants (up to a maximum of 150). Make sure to register
well in advance to secure your place through the </span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";"><a
href="http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=Final_Forum_Registration_Form"><span
style="color: blue;" lang="EN-US">Forum Registration</span></a></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> page. </span></p>
<p class="body1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><u>*Preliminary
list
of<span style=""> </span>Speakers*</u><br>
While the final program is taking shape, we are pleased to
announce that the following speakers have agreed to give a talk
at the Forum:</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Anne
Cambon-Thomsen, CNRS, France</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Timos
Sellis, IMIS, Greece</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Key Sun
Choi, KAIST, Korea</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Nancy
Ide, Vassar College, USA</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Chris
Cieri, LDC, USA</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">James
Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Bill
Dolan, Microsoft Inc., USA</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Hans
Uszkoreit, DFKI, Germany</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Andrejs
Vasiljevs, Tilde</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Frederique
Segond, Xerox, France</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Dunja
Mladenic, JSI, Slovenia</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Kenneth
Church, Johns Hopkins University, USA</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Peter
Wittenburg, MPI, The Netherlands</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">David
Giaretta, STFC, UK</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">David
Haskiya, Europeana</span></p>
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