08 October 2019 – META-FORUM 2019 Day 1
| 08:00 | Doors open - Registration |
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| Opening Session | |
| 09:00 | Welcome and Introduction – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) - Slides |
| 09:15 | Welcome Address – Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic; Chair of META-NET Executive Board) - Slides |
| 09:30 | Opening Address – Jill Evans (Member of the European Parliament) |
| 09:45 | European Language Grid: An Overview – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) - Slides |
| 10:05 | Expo and Coffee Break |
| 10:45 | Opening Keynote: Gail Kent (Director of Directorate G “Data”, DG Connect, European Commission) |
| Session 1: Introducing the European Language Grid | |
| 11:15 | Deep Dive 1 – ELG Community: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany), Katrin Marheinecke (DFKI, Germany), Katja Prinz (SAIL LABS, Austria) 01-01-ELG-Deep-Dive-1-Community - Slides |
| 11:35 | Deep Dive 2 – ELG Platform: Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece), Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia), Florian Kintzel (DFKI, Germany) - Slides |
| 11:55 | Deep Dive 3 – ELG Content: Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK), Ian Roberts (University of Sheffield, UK), Khalid Choukri (ELDA, France) - Slides |
| 12:15 | First Public Demonstration of ELG: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany), Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece), Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK) - video of the current ELG prototype |
| 12:30 | Announcing the ELG Open Calls: Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) - Slides |
| 12:45 | Discussion |
| 13:00 | Expo and Lunch Break |
| Invited Keynote Chair and moderator: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) | |
| 14:00 | Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA): “Towards a Global Language Grid – Challenges and Opportunities” - cancelled |
| Session 2: Current EU Language Technology Research Projects Chair and moderator: José Manuel Gómez Pérez (Expert System, Spain) | |
| 14:45 | ELITR: Barry Haddow (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Slides |
| 14:52 | COMPRISE: Emmanuel Vincent (Inria, France) - Slides |
| 14:59 | Bergamot: Uli Germann (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Slides |
| 15:06 | EMBEDDIA: Matthew Purver (University of London, UK) - Slides |
| 15:13 | Gourmet: Barry Haddow (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Slides |
| 15:20 | Prêt-à-LLOD: John McCrae (Insight Centre, Ireland) - Slides |
| 15:30 | Expo and Coffee Break |
| 16:15 | Session 3: Discussion Panel – Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence – Collaborations and Prospects Chair and moderator: Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic – META-NET and European Language Grid) |
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| Session 4: Language Technology and Digital Public Services – CEF Automated Translation and INEA Projects Chair and moderator: Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece) | |
| 17:15 | Overview of CEF AT and INEA Projects - Philippe Gelin (European Commission) - Slides |
| 17:25 | Project: CEF INEA NEC-TM Data – Manuel Herranz (Pangeanic, Spain) - Slides |
| 17:35 | Project: CEF INEA Neural Translation for the EU – Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) - Slides |
| 17:45 | ELRC Country Profiles - Lilli Smal (DFKI, Germany) - Slides |
| 17:55 | Discussion |
| 18:05 | End of META-FORUM 2019 Day 1 |
09 October 2019 – META-FORUM 2019 Day 2
| 08:00 | Doors open - Registration |
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| 09:00 | Session 5: News from the Language Communities and selected ELG National Competence Centres (NCCs) Chair and moderator: Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia) |
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| 10:15 | Expo and Coffee Break |
| Session 6: ELG and the European LT Industry Chair and moderator: Gerhard Backfried (Sail Labs, Austria) - Slides | |
| 10:45 | CEF LT Market Study: Luc Meertens (Crosslang, Belgium) - Slides |
| 11:00 |
The European Language Grid as the Primary Marketplace for European LT – with contributions from the ELG consortium partners from industry:
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| 11:30 |
European LT Developers and LT Users: Demands and Ideas – with contributions from:
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| 12:10 | Discussion |
| 12:30 | Expo and Lunch Break |
| Session 7: Selected relevant EU projects Chair and moderator: Khalid Choukri (ELDA, France) | |
| 13:30 | WeVerify: Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK) - Slides |
| 13:40 | Elexis: Simon Krek (Institut Jožef Stefan, Slovenia) - Slides |
| 13:50 | Memad: Dieter Van Rijsselbergen (Limecraft, Belgium) - Slides |
| 14:00 | Lynx: Elena Montiel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) - Slides |
| 14:10 | Fandango: Francesco Saverio Nucci (Engineering, Italy) - Slides |
| Session 8: Sustainability of the ICT-29 Projects Chair and moderator: Georg Rehm (DFKI) | |
| 14:20 | Overview of the Sustainability Plans of the ICT-29b) Projects: John McCrae (Insight Centre, Ireland) - Slides |
| 14:30 | European Language Grid – Towards a Legal Entity: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) - Slides |
| 14:45 | Discussion |
| 15:00 | Expo and Coffee Break |
| Invited Keynote Chair and moderator: Ulrich Germann (University of Edinburgh, UK) | |
| 15:45 | Maxim Khalilov (Unbabel, Portugal): “Unbabel – AI-Powered Translation Solutions for Multilingual Europe” |
| Award Ceremony – META Seal of Recognition, META Prize Chair and moderator: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) - Slides | |
| 16:30 |
2019 Winners of the META Seal of Recognition
Mozilla - for their initiative to integrate Machine Translation into the browser - Slides
Explosian.ai - for their highly efficient and popular spaCy software - Slides
2019 Winner of the Honorary META Prize
Algirdas Saudargas – for his continued support of Multilingual Europe and the META-NET initiative
2019 Winner of the META Prize
Jill Evans – for her supportive work regarding the European Parliament report “Language equality in the digital age”, published in 2018
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| Closing Session | |
| 17:15 | Closing Remarks – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) - Slides |
| 17:30 | End of META-FORUM 2019 |