[lg policy] call: META-FORUM 2012 - A Strategy for Multilingual Europe

Mon Jun 4 14:38:04 UTC 2012

META-FORUM 2012 - A Strategy for Multilingual Europe
Short Title: META-FORUM

Date: 20-Jun-2012 - 21-Jun-2012
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact: John Judge
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.meta-forum.eu

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
General Linguistics; Translation

Meeting Description:

META-FORUM is an international conference on powerful technologies for
the multilingual European information society. Organised by META-NET,
a European Network of Excellence in Language Technologies, META-FORUM
is now in its third year. For more information see:
http://www.meta-forum.eu

META-FORUM 2012: A Strategy for Multilingual Europe
June 20/21, Brussels, Belgium

Call for Participation:

What would Europe be without its languages? The rich multiculturalism
of Europe is synonymous not just with its many peoples, but with the
languages they speak. These languages are precious assets which, in
the modern Information Society need to be preserved, promoted and
enabled through Language Technologies.

Through a focused and concerted effort the META-NET initiative
(http://www.meta-net.eu) is working to promote Language Technologies
as a means to turn Europe's linguistic diversity into Europe's
linguistic opportunity.

You are invited to learn more about this work, to become actively
involved and to represent your business/industry's view at META-FORUM
2012: A Strategy for Multilingual Europe, June 20/21 2012 in Brussels,
Belgium, http://www.meta-forum.eu.

Industry Exhibition - Last Remaining Spaces

The Industry Exhibition which will run concurrent with the main
conference will feature presentations and demonstrations from large
and small businesses working across the field of Language Technologies
as well as showcasing recent R&D work carried out in EU-funded
projects (a few slots are still available!).

Highlights

The program includes presentations and panel discussions with
representatives of Google, EFNIL, BBC, Airbus, several national
language bodies (Germany, Malta, Estonia, Norway, Lithuania), the
European Commission, among others. Research presentations give an
overview of the current state of multilingual Language Technology in
Europe. META-NET's open resource exchange facility META-SHARE and a
Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) for multilingual Europe will be
presented. The SRA for European LT will be of utmost importance in
laying the foundation for the next decade of funding on the national
and international level, especially with regard to the final stages of
FP7 and the next Framework Programme starting in 2014.

Free Registration

Registration for META-FORUM 2012 is free, but online pre-registration
at http://www.meta-net.eu/events/meta-forum-2012/registration is
essential. If you wish to avail of one of the remaining slots at the
industry exhibition please contact us.

Help shape the future of multilingual Europe at META-FORUM 2012. As
Europeans, we must ask ourselves what would we be without our
languages? Have your say at META-FORUM 2012: A Strategy for
Multilingual Europe.

We're convinced that META-FORUM 2012 will mark a cornerstone both for
Multilingual Europe and for the European LT landscape and we look
forward to seeing you in Brussels!

Satellite events:

META Exhibition: expo with ca. 40 exhibits, booths and stands from
research and industry. Running concurrently with META-FORUM 2012 in
the Gallery and in room Adolphe Max (opposite the registration desk).
Inter-service group on Language Technology meeting (organised by the EC).

Day 1 - June 20, 2012

09:15-09:45
Opening Session

Thibaut Kleiner (Member of the Cabinet of Neelie Kroes, Commissioner
for the Digital Agenda and Vice-President of the European Commission,
EC):
"Technological Challenges of the Multilingual European Society"

Hans Uszkoreit (META-NET; DFKI, Germany):
"European Language Technology: Where do we stand - in a nutshell?"

09:45-11:00
Session: Europe and its Languages - Joint session by META-NET and
EFNIL (European Federation of National Institutions for Language)

Opening - Algirdas Saudargas (MEP, Lithuania) (5 mins.)

Introductory Talk - András Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest):
"Language Death in the Digital Age" (10 mins.)

N.N.: ''Are Europe's Languages in Danger? Presentation of the META-NET
Language White Paper Series'' (10 mins.)

Panel with Representatives of the EFNIL Language Communities (50 mins.):
Gerhard Stickel, Institute for the German Language, EFNIL President
Manwel Mifsud, National Council for the Maltese Language (tbc)
Arvi Tavast, Institute of the Estonian Language
Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen, The Language Council of Norway
Algirdas Saudargas (MEP, Lithuania)
András Kornai (moderator; session chair)

11:00-11:30
Coffee break

11:30-12:55
Session: Industry and Innovation - Language Technology Made in Europe
Chair: N.N.

Translation and Language Services: Serge Gladkoff (President, Logrus
International Cooperation, Russia/USA; CLS Communication, Switzerland)

Text Analytics and Big Data: Tomás Pariente (Atos Research and
Innovation, Spain)

Machine Translation: Radu Soricut (Manager of Application Science &
Engineering and Senior Research Scientist, SDL International, UK/USA)

Future Media: George Wright (Head of the Internet Research & Future
Services Team, BBC Research, UK) (tbc)

Controlled Language: Florence Beaujard (Airbus, France)

Interactive Agents: N.N. (Artificial Solutions, Sweden) (tbc)

Localization and Language Services: Lori Thicke (CEO, Lexcelera
Localization, France)

Discussion (15 mins.)

12:55-14:00
Lunch break

14:00-16:00
Session: Language Technologies for Europe 2020 - Joint session by
META-NET and LT Innovate
Chair: N.N.

Joint opening: Introduction and Presentation of Partnership. Georg
Rehm (META-NET; DFKI, Germany) (10 mins.)

Presentation of LT Innovate. Jochen Hummel (LT Innovate; ESTeam,
Sweden) (15 mins.)

The META-NET Strategic Research Agenda: Overview, Preparation,
Dissemination. Hans Uszkoreit (META-NET; DFKI, Germany) (15 mins.)

The SRA Research Priority Themes for Multilingual Europe 2020 (30 mins.)
Research Priority Theme 1: Translation Cloud - Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia)
Research Priority Theme 2: Social Intelligence and eParticipation -
Marko Grobelnik (Institut ''Jožef Stefan'', Slovenia)
Research Priority Theme 3: Socially Aware Interactive Assistants -
Joseph Mariani (CNRS-LIMSI/IMMI, France)
The LT-Innovate Innovation Themes (35 mins.): iEnterprise, iHealth,
iHelpers, iServices, iSkills. N.N. (tba)

Discussion (15 mins.)

16:00-16:30
Coffee break

16:30-18:00
Session: LT Fireworks - Research, Innovation and Technology - META
Prize and META Seal of Recognition Award Ceremony
Moderators: Josef van Genabith (DCU and CNGL, Ireland) and Georg Rehm
(DFKI, Germany)

The winners of the META Prize and the META Seal of Recognition will be
discussed and decided upon by the META Technology Council. The
programme of this session will be announced at the conference.

Day 2 - June 21, 2012

09:30-10:30
Session: Plans for LT Research and Innovation on the European Level
Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR, Italy)

Connecting Europe Facility (CEF): Kimmo Rossi (Language Technologies &
Machine Translation Unit, Directorate General for Information Society
and Media, European Commission, Luxembourg) (20 mins.)

Final 2012/2013 calls in FP7 and Horizon 2020: Roberto Cencioni
(Language Technologies & Machine Translation Unit, Directorate General
for Information Society and Media, European Commission, Luxembourg)
(20 mins.)

Discussion, Q/A (20 mins.)

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break

11:00-12:00
Session: META-SHARE: An Open Resource Exchange Infrastructure
Chair: N.N.

Overview, Current State, Towards Version 3 of META-SHARE. Stelios
Piperidis (ILSP, Greece) (15 mins.)

The contribution of CESAR. Tamás Varadi (Research Institute for
Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) (10 mins.)

The contribution of METANET4U. Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon,
Portugal) (10 mins.)

The contribution of META-NORD. Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia) (10 mins.)

META-SHARE in 2013 and beyond - Discussion, Q/A (15 mins.)

12:00-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-15:30
Session: Plans for LT Research and Innovation in Member States and Regions
Chair and Moderator: Joseph Mariani (CNRS-LIMSI/IMMI, France)

Short presentations (5-7 mins.) by representatives of national and
regional funding agencies about national plans and international
connections and synergies.

Panel discussion on how to initiate and structure the cooperation
between the member state or regional level and the European level with
representatives of national and regional funding agencies:

The Netherlands: Catia Cucchiarini, De Nederlandse Taalunie

Catalonia: Yvonne Griley i Martinez, Directora de política
lingüística, Generalitat de Catalunya (tbc)

Bulgaria: Petya Evtimova, Deputy Minister of Education and Research, Bulgaria

Czech Republic: Karel Oliva, member of the Council of Research,
Development and Innovations of the Czech Republic, head of the
Institute of the Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences (tbc)

Additional participants to be announced

Joseph Mariani (moderator; session chair)

15:30-16:00
Coffee Break

16:00-17:00
Keynote Lecture: Fernando Pereira (Google Inc.): title tba

17:00-17:15
Closing Session: Next Steps and Future Plans

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