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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">**Apologies
for multiple postings**</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">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 lang="IT"><a
href="http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=45619&image=5"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Auditorium
Santa Margherita</span></a></span><span style="font-size:
10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">, Ca' Foscari
University. </span></p>
<p class="body1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
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"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="EN-US">The Venice
Forum sessions are devoted to the following topics: </span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">- Identification
and tracking of Language
Resources<br>
- Open Data<br>
- Go green: reuse, repurpose, and recycle resources<br>
- Innovation needs data <br>
- Data for all languages: think big</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">- Long
life to our resources<br>
- From recommendations to actions: what’s next?</span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="body1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">A
description of the sessions is now available on the
web site.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">*Registration
now open*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">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 lang="IT"><a
href="http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=Final_Forum_Registration_Form"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Forum
Registration</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"> page. </span></p>
<p class="body1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="EN-US">*Preliminary
list of<span style=""> </span>Speakers*</span></p>
<p class="body1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="EN-US">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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" 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;" lang="EN-US">David
Haskiya, Europeana</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">*Important
notice*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="EN-US">Venice is a
worldwide top tourist destination attracting millions of
tourists each year. Do
not hesitate to make your hotel reservation as soon as possible.
A list of
hotels close to the Forum venue is available at the </span><span
lang="IT"><a
href="http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=Final_Forum_Accommodation"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Forum
Accommodation</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"> page. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="IT">FLaReNet
Forum
PC</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="IT">Nicoletta
Calzolari</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial;" lang="IT"> (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="EN-US">Khalid Choukri</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"> (ELDA, Paris, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="EN-US">Stelios Piperidis</span><span style="font-size:
10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"> (ILSP /
“Athena” R. C., Athens, Greece)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="EN-US">Jan Odijk</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"> (Universiteit Utrecht,
Utrecht, The Netherlands)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="IT">Núria Bel</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="IT">
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="IT">Joseph Mariani</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="IT"> (</span><span lang="IT"><a
href="http://www.limsi.fr/"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial; color: windowtext; text-decoration:
none;">LIMSI</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="IT">/</span><span lang="IT"><a
href="http://www.immi-labs.org/"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial; color: windowtext; text-decoration:
none;">IMMI</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="IT">-</span><span lang="IT"><a
href="http://www.cnrs.fr/"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial; color: windowtext; text-decoration:
none;">CNRS</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="IT">, Paris, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="IT">Claudia Soria</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="IT"> (</span><span lang="IT"><a
href="http://www.ilc.cnr.it/"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial; color: windowtext; text-decoration:
none;">ILC</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="IT">-</span><span lang="IT"><a
href="http://www.cnr.it/"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial; color: windowtext; text-decoration:
none;">CNR</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="IT">, Pisa, Italy)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="IT">Rodolfo Delmonte (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia,
Italy)</span></p>
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