The second annual ELG conference

META-FORUM 2020

Piloting the European Language Grid


Virtual ZOOM conference (hosted from Berlin, Germany)

Television tower 'Alex' Berlin

1 December 2020 – META-FORUM 2020 Day 1

Session 1: Opening - Video
09:00 Welcome and Introduction
  • Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany; Coordinator ELG and General Secretary of META-NET) - Slides - Video
  • Jan Hajič (Charles University, Czech Republic; Chair of the META-NET Executive Board) - Slides - Video
09:15 Opening Keynote Speech
  • Patrick Breyer (Member of the European Parliament) - Video
09:30 Opening Keynote Speech
  • Yvo Volman (acting Director, Directorate G, DG CONNECT, European Commission) - Video
09:45
  • ELG – Broad overview
  • ELG - Language Technology, Services and Resources
  • ELG – Platform
  • Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) - Slides - Video
  • Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK) - Slides - Video
  • Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, R.C. “Athena”, Greece) - Slides - Video
10:30 Virtual Coffee Break
Session 2: ELG Open Calls & Pilot Projects - Video
10:45 ELG Open Call #1 and Open Call #2 - A brief overview of the two open calls
  • Jan Hajič (Charles University, Czech Republic) - Slides - Video
  • Lukáš Kačena (Charles University, Czech Republic)
  • Jana Hamrlova (Charles University, Czech Republic)
11:00 ELG Pilot Project: European Clinical Case Corpus
  • Bernardo Magnini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) - Slides - Video
11:05 ELG Pilot Project: Lingsoft Solutions as Distributable Containers
  • Michael Stormbom (Lingsoft, Inc., Finland) - Slides - Video
11:10 ELG Pilot Project: MKS as Linguistic Linked Open Data
  • Michael Wetzel (Coreon GmbH, Germany) - Slides - Video
11:15 ELG Pilot Project: Basque-speaking smart speaker based on Mycroft AI
  • Igor Leturia Azkarate (Elhuyar Fundazioa, Spain) - Slides - Video
  • Josu Aztiria (Elhuyar Fundazioa, Spain)
11:20 ELG Pilot Project: Italian EVALITA Benchmark Linguistic Resources, NLP Services and Tools
  • Viviana Patti (Universitá Degli Studi di Torino, Italy) - Slides - Video
11:25 ELG Pilot Project: Open Translation Models, Tools and Services
  • Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Slides - Video
11:30 ELG Pilot Project: Extracting Terminological Concept Systems from Natural Language Text
  • Dagmar Gromann (University of Vienna, Austria) - Slides - Video
11:35 ELG Pilot Project: Textual paraphrase dataset for deep language modelling
  • Filip Ginter (University of Turku, Finland) - Slides - Video
11:40 ELG Pilot Project: Virtual Personal Assistant Prototype
  • Franz Weber (Weber Consulting KG, Austria) - Slides - Video
11:45 ELG Pilot Project: Streaming Language Processing in Manufacturing
  • Dominik Riemer (FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany) - Slides - Video
12:00 Project Expo
13:30 End of META-FORUM 2020 Day 1

2 December 2020 – META-FORUM 2020 Day 2

Session 3: European Language Equality (ELE) - Video
09:00 Introducing the upcoming EU project
European Language Equality (ELE)
  • Andy Way (Dublin City University, Ireland; Coordinator ELE) - Slides - Video
  • Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany; Co-coordinator ELE)
  • Jan Hajič (Charles University, Czech Republic)
  • Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, R.C. "Athena", Greece)
  • German Rigau (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Session 4: News from the Language Communities - Video
09:30 Reports from selected ELG National Competence Centres (NCCs)
  • Marko Turpeinen (1001 Lakes, Finland) - Slides - Video
  • Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, NCC Belgium) - Slides - Video
  • Svetla Koeva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, NCC Bulgaria) - Slides - Video
  • Maciej Ogrodniczuk (Polish Academy of Sciences, NCC Poland) - Slides - Video
  • Marta Villegas (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, NCC Spain) - Slides - Video
  • François Yvon (LIMSI/CNRS, NCC France) - Slides - Video
  • Moderator: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) - Slides - Video
10:45 Project Expo
Session 5: European AI Initiatives and Language-centric AI Initiatives - Video
11:30

  • AI4EU

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  • AI4MEDIA
  • HumanE-AI-Net
  • VISION and CLAIRE
  • BDVA and AI PPP
  • ELG
  • Patrick Gatellier (Thales, France)
  • Joachim Köhler (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
  • Yiannis Kompatsiaris (CERTH, Greece)
  • Paul Lukowicz (DFKI, Germany)
  • Holger Hoos (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
  • Laure Le Bars (SAP, Germany)
  • Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)
  • Moderator: Jan Hajič (Charles University, Czech Republic) - Slides - Video
12:30 Project Expo
13:30 End of META-FORUM 2020 Day 2

3 December 2020 – META-FORUM 2020 Day 3

Session 6: ELG and the European LT industry - Video
09:00 European Language Technology companies present themselves and their specific needs, demands and wishes towards the ELG
10:15 Project Expo
Session 7: Sustainability of European LT Projects - Video
11:15 Sustainability of the European Language Grid and other related projects
  • Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) - Slides - Video
  • Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany) - Slides - Video
  • Philippe Gelin (European Commission, DG CONNECT, Luxembourg) - Slides - Video
Session 8: Closing - Video
11:45 A sneak peek at META-FORUM 2021
12:00 End of META-FORUM 2020 Day 3
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The European Language Grid has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement № 825627. The European Language Equality project has received funding from the European Union under grant agreement № LC-01641480 – 101018166.

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