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<br /></br><hr /><b>Evento científico: </b>IMPACT Conference<br
/>Londres (Reino Unido), del 24 al 25 de octubre de 2011<br />(1ª
circular)<br />URL: <a
href="http://www.impact-project.eu/news/ic2011/"
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/><b>Información de:</b> Isabel Martínez Sempere
<isabel.ms@ua.es><br /><hr /><p><a
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/><b>Descripción</b><br /><p>The final conference of the IMPACT
project will take place on 24-25 October 2011 at the British Library
in London. At this conference, the final tools and services of IMPACT
will be presented, along with related research in the field of OCR and
language technology. Please join us for this two day conference to
find out more about the project outputs and how you can use them in
your own digitisation initiatives.<br /><br />Registration<br />•
Early bird rate of £100 GBP (max. 100 tickets), available from 14 Feb
- 1 July 2011 <br />• Normal rate of £120 GBP, available from 2
July - 21 October<br />For bookings, please visit: <a
href="http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=BRITISHLIB&organ_val=25385"
target="_blank">http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=BRITISHLIB&organ_val=25385</a>
and click October.<br /><br />Location and travel information<br
/>Please check the Travel information page for more information on how
to reach The British Library and hotels near the conference
location.</p><br /><b>Área temática:</b> Lingüística
computacional, Lingüística de corpus, Lingüística histórica<br
/><br /><b>Entidad Organizadora: </b>IMPACT<br /><br
/><b>Contacto:</b> Isabel Martínez <isabel.ms@ua.es><br /><br
/><b>Programa</b><br /><p>Monday 24 October 2011<br /><br
/>Registration starts from 9.00 onwards. The conference will be opened
at 10.00.<br /> <br />BLOCK 1: OPERATIONAL CONTEXT<br /><br />
Welcome and Opening of the Conference by Hildelies Balk (IMPACT
Project Director, KB National library of the Netherlands)<br />
Strategic Digital overview by Dame Lynne Brindley (Chief Executive,
The British Library)<br /> Digitisation challenges & summary of
IMPACT achievements so far by Hildelies Balk (KB)<br /> IMPACT
Decision Support Tools and Learning Resource Toolkit by Neil
Fitzgerald (BL)<br /> Presentation of a case study from an IMPACT
library<br /> <br />BLOCK 2: FRAMEWORK AND EVALUATION<br /><br />
Experiences in mass digitisation: examining OCR quality by Paul Fogel
(University of California, California Digital Library) <br /> The
IMPACT Framework and what you can do with it by Clemens Neudecker
(KB)<br /> IMPACT Evaluation tools, ground truth and datasets by
the University of Salford<br /><br />BLOCK 3: TOOLS FOR IMPROVED TEXT
RECOGNITION<br /><br /> ABBYY FineReader: IMPACT improvements by
Michael Fuchs (ABBYY Europe)<br /> IBM Adaptive OCR engine and
CONCERT Cooperative Correction by Asaf Tzadok (IBM Haifa Research
Lab)<br /> IMPACT Document Understanding Platform by Günter
Mühlberger (University of Innsbruck)<br /> Postcorrection in
IMPACT by CIS group, University of Munich<br /><br />Evening Social
Event: Dinner at Smithy's, Leek Street, London <br /><br />Smithy's
Restaurant and Wine Bar is within walking distance of The British
Library. This dinner is included in the registration fee. More
information: <a href="http://www.smithyslondon.com/"
target="_blank">http://www.smithyslondon.com/</a><br /><br />Tuesday
25 October 2011<br /><br />BLOCK 4: LANGUAGE TOOLS AND RESOURCES<br
/><br /> Broad overview of language work in IMPACT<br />
Examples of work done in IMPACT for various languages<br /> Related
language work in this area: CLARIN by Stewen Krauwer (CLARIN
coordinator, University of Utrecht)<br /> <br />BLOCK 5: IMPACT
CENTRE OF COMPETENCE<br /><br /> The EC Digital Agenda and official
launch of the IMPACT Centre of Competence by Khalil Rouhana (European
Commission - Director for digital content and cognitive systems in DG
Information Society and Media)<br /> Introduction to the IMPACT
Centre of Competence by Aly Conteh (BL) and Hildelies Balk (KB)<br />
<br />PARALLEL SESSIONS<br />- Each session will be held twice so
participants have the option to attend 2 out of 3 sessions -<br /><br
/> Research session: Presentation and discussion of state of the
art research tools for document analysis and OCR<br /> Language
session: Presentation and demonstration of the IMPACT language tools &
resources in further detail<br /> Digitisation tips session: Meet
the expert: questions & answers on digitisation issues<br /><br /><br
/>The final wrap up of the conference will end at 17.30</p><br
/><b>Lengua(s) oficial(es) del evento: </b>inglés<br /><br /><b>Nº
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