The third annual ELG conference
Using the European Language Grid
Virtual ZOOM conference (hosted from Berlin, Germany)
15 November 2021 – META-FORUM 2021 Day 1
| Session 1: Opening - Video | ||
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| 9:00 | Welcome – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany; Coordinator ELG and General Secretary of META-NET) - Slides - Video | |
| 9:07 | Introduction – Jan Hajič (Charles University, Czech Republic; Chair of the META-NET Executive Board) - Slides - Video | |
| 9:15 | Opening Keynote – Philippe Gelin (European Commission, DG CONNECT, Luxembourg) - Slides - Video | |
| European Language Grid – Current stay of play | ||
| 9:45 | General Overview – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) - Slides - Video | |
| 10:00 | Technology Platform – Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, R.C. “Athena”, Greece) - Slides - Video | |
| 10:15 | Tools, Services and Resources – Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK) - Slides - Video | |
| 10:30 | Virtual Coffee Break | |
| Session 2: ELG Pilot Projects - Video | ||
| 10:45 | Presentation of project results: Overview – Lukáš Kačena (Charles University, Czech Republic) - Slides - Video | |
| 10:55 | Lingsoft Solutions as Distributable Containers – Michael Stormbom (Lingsoft, Inc., Finland) - Slides - Video | |
| 11:05 | Extracting Terminological Concept Systems from Natural Language Text – Dagmar Gromann (University of Vienna, Austria) - Slides - Video | |
| 11:15 | CEFR Labelling and Assessment Services – Mark Breuker (EDIA BV, Netherlands) - Slides - Video | |
| 11:25 | Basque-speaking smart speaker – Igor Leturia (Elhuyar Fundazioa, Spain) - Slides - Video | |
| 11:35 | Sign Language explanations for terms in a text – Helmut Ludwar (Sign Time GmbH, Austria) - Slides - Video | |
| 11:45 | Discussion | |
| 12:00 | ||
| The project expo of META-FORUM hosts 36 projects that are supported by the European Union or by national funding agencies and operate in the field of language technology. The expo takes place virtually in Gather Town, where every project is presented at its own booth. |
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| 13:30 | End of META-FORUM 2021 Day 1 | |
16 November 2021 – META-FORUM 2021 Day 2
| Session 3: European language technology industry - Video | ||
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| 09:00 | Presentations by industry representatives – Chair: Gerhard Backfried (HENSOLDT Analytics GmbH, Austria) - Slides | |
| Jochen Hummel (Coreon GmbH, Germany) - Slides - Video | ||
| Arantza Del Pozo (Vicomtech, Spain) - Slides - Video | ||
| Brigitte Lutz (City of Vienna, Austria) - Slides - Video | ||
| Svetla Boytcheva (Ontotext, Bulgaria) - Slides - Video | ||
| 10:15 | Virtual Coffee Break | |
| Session 4: Language-centric AI in Europe - Video | ||
| 10:30 | Introduction – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) | |
| European Language Technology projects | ||
| 10:35 | Live speech-to-text and MT tool for 24 languages – Marcin Feder (DG TRAD at European Parliament, Belgium) - Slides - Video | |
| 10:45 | SPEAKER – Johannes Fischer (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany) - Slides - Video | |
| 10:55 | NFDI4DataScience – Sonja Schimmler (Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany) - Video | |
| 11:05 | EBU: A European Perspective – Justyna Kurczabinska, Sébastien Noir (European Broadcasting Union, Switzerland) - Slides - Video | |
| 11:15 | WeVerify – Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK) - Slides - Video | |
| 11:25 | CLAIRE – Holger Hoos (University of Leiden, Netherlands) - Slides - Video | |
| 11:35 | Panel discussion | |
| 12:00 | End of META-FORUM 2021 Day 2 | |
17 November 2021 – META-FORUM 2021 Day 3
| Session 5: European Language Equality - Video | ||
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| 09:00 | Overview of ELE project – Andy Way (Dublin City University, Ireland, Coordinator ELE) & Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany, Co-coordinator ELE) - Slides - Video | |
| First results of the ELE project: | ||
| 09:15 | An Overview of Strategic LT/AI Documents in Europe – German Rigau (University of the Basque Country, Spain) - Slides - Video | |
| 09:30 | Defining Digital Language Equality – Federico Gaspari (Dublin City University, Ireland) - Slides - Video | |
| 09:45 | Collection of LRTs in 30+ European countries and production of 30+ Language Reports – Maria Giagkou (ILSP, R.C. “Athena”, Greece) - Slides - Video | |
| 10:00 | European LT Developers Survey – Maria Giagkou (ILSP, R.C. “Athena”, Greece) - Slides - Video | |
| 10:10 | European LT Users Survey – Natalia Resende (Dublin City University, Ireland) - Slides - Video | |
| 10:20 | Discussion | |
| Session 6: Closing Session | ||
| 10:30 | Recap and closing remarks | Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)) - Slides |
| 10:45 | End of conference / Virtual Coffee break | |
| Session 7: Training Session - Video | ||
| Workshop for interested LT & NLP developers who want to integrate services or language resources in ELG | ||
| 11:00 | Getting familiar with the ELG catalogue – Penny Labropoulou (ILSP, R.C. “Athena”, Greece) - Video | |
| 11:10 | Integrating services into ELG: what you need to know – Dimitris Galanis (ILSP, R.C. “Athena”, Greece) - Slides - Video | |
| 11:30 | Preparing python-based services for the integration – Rémi Calizzano (DFKI, Germany) - Video | |
| 11:50 | Registering services in the ELG platform – Ian Roberts (University of Sheffield, UK) - Slides - Video | |
| 12:05 | Using ELG services – Rémi Calizzano (DFKI, Germany) - Video | |
| 12:15 | Sharing datasets & models through ELG – Penny Labropoulou (ILSP, R.C. “Athena”, Greece) - Slides - Video | |
| 12:25 | Discussion & questions – ELG Technical Team | |
| 12:30 | End of workshop and of META-FORUM 2021 Day 3 | |