META-FORUM
2015 was held jointly by META-NET and the
Riga Summit 2015 on Multilingual
Digital Single Market, co-organised with Tilde and CRACKER on April 27, 2015 in
Riga, Latvia.
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META-FORUM 2015 and Riga Summit 2015 –
Opening Session
13:30 Introductory remarks
16:38 Opening
Address by
Lolita Čigāne,
Head of the Committee of
European Affairs of the
Latvian Parliament
24:43 META-FORUM 2015: Technologies for the Multilingual Digital Single Market – The Strategic
Agenda for the Multilingual
DSM at a Glance by
Georg Rehm (
DFKI,
Germany; META-NET, CRACKER)
37:29 Opening Address by
Edgars Rinkēvičs,
Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Latvia
46:28 Opening Keynote: Towards the Multilingual Digital Single Market –
Research and
Innovation Challenges by Márta Nagy-Rothengass (EC,
DG CONNECT)
59:21 Five years of META-NET: Where do we go from here? by
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany; META-NET)
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Session 1:
Text and
Data Value
Chains for the Multilingual Digital Single Market and European Data
Economy
1:12:29
Chair:
Nicoletta Calzolari (
Institute for
Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli”,
Italy)
1:14:44
Industry Keynote: Challenges, Solutions and
Visions for the Multilingual European Data Economy by
Laure Le Bars (
SAP, Germany;
Deputy President of the
Big Data Value
Association PPP)
1:33:51 A Summary of Research Activities: Technologies – Demands –
Gaps – Roadmaps presented by
Dave Lewis (
Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland) – including contributions from multiple other EU-funded projects
1:57:17
Open Discussion
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Session 2:
Interactive Things and Technologies for the Multilingual Digital Single Market
2:43:07 Chair: Núria
Bel (
Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Spain)
2:44:40 Industry Keynote: Challenges, Solutions and Visions for the Interactive Multilingual Digital Single Market by
Rebecca Jonsson (
Artificial Solutions,
Sweden;
Chief Researcher)
2:58:32 A Summary of Research Activities: Technologies – Demands – Gaps – Roadmaps, presented by
Steve Renals (
University of Edinburgh, UK) – including contributions from multiple other EU-funded projects
3:17:51 Open Discussion
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Session 3: Multilingual Technologies for the Digital Single Market
4:48:07 Chair: António
Branco (
University of Lisbon,
Portugal)
4:49:46 Industry Keynote: Challenges, Solutions and Visions for the Multilingual Digital Single Market by
Matthias Heyn (
SDL, UK; VP
Global Solutions)
5:13:36 A Summary of Research Activities: Technologies – Demands – Gaps – Roadmaps, presented by
Jan Hajič (
Charles University in Prague,
Czech Republic) – including contributions from multiple other EU-funded projects
5:36:57 Open Discussion
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6:00:50 Panel Discussion 1:
The Language Communities –
Joint Position Paper by NPLD (
Network to Promote Linguistic
Diversity) and EFNIL (
European Federation of
National Institutions for
Language)
Moderator: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)
Participants:
Meirion Prys
Jones (
CEO Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity, UK; NPLD)
Delyth Prys (
Bangor University, UK; NPLD)
Rickard Domeij (
Language Council of Sweden; EFNIL)
Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen (
Danish Language Council; EFNIL)
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7:39:18 Panel Discussion 2: Infrastructures,
Platforms and Services for the multilingual Digital Single Market
Moderator: Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany)
Participants:
Stelios Piperidis (Institute for
Language and Speech Processing,
Greece)
Khalid Choukri (
ELRA/
ELDA,
France)
Steven Krauwer (
CLARIN ERIC,
The Netherlands)
Jochen Hummel (ESTeam, Sweden/Germany)
Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia)
Asunción Gómez Pérez (
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
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8:41:20
Award Ceremony –
META Seal of
Recognition, META Prize
Moderators: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) and Tamás Váradi (
Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
2015
Winners of the META Seal of Recognition
LT-Innovate: Jochen Hummel
Translated:
Alessandro Cattelan
DBpedia: Markus Ackermann and Asunción Gómez Pérez
2015
Winner of the META Prize
BabelNet:
Roberto Navigli
- published: 05 May 2015
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