6th ELRC Conference
31 March 2022, 09:30 to 15:30 CEST
Zoom
Think BIG. For Europe’s Multilingual FUTURE.
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6th ELRC Conference Agenda
| 09:30 – 09:45 |
Welcome by the EC (Philippe Gelin, Head of Sector Multilingualism, European Commission) |
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09:45 – 10:00 |
Welcome and Introduction (Andrea Lösch, ELRC Project Manager, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence) |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
INSIDE ELRC AND DIGITAL EUROPE 10:00 – 10:20 ELRC Update (Andrea Lösch, ELRC Project Manager, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence) 10:20 – 10:40 ELRC White Paper: Language data sharing & language-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Eileen Marra, ELRC Communication Manager, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence) 10:40 – 11:00 Quo vadis? The European Language Data Space (Philippe Gelin, Head of Sector Multilingualism, European Commission) |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 – 12:10 |
SPOTLIGHT: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR EUROPE 11:10 – 11:30 Why Europe needs large language models. An economic perspective (Jörg Bienert, Chairman of the German Federal Association for AI) 11:30 – 11:50 Possibilities and Limitations of Large Language Models: PAGnol, VLM-4 and Muse (Igor Carron, CEO, LightOn) 11:50 – 12:10 AI Sweden: Language Models for Swedish Authorities (Magnus Sahlgren, Head of Re-search Natural Language Understanding, AI Sweden) |
| 12:10 – 12:30 |
DISCOURSE: Language Technologies for fighting disinformation (Nikos Sarris, Senior Researcher, CERTH; Maria Bielikova, General Director, KInIT) |
| 12:30 – 12:45 |
Wrap-up and outlook (Andrea Lösch, ELRC Project Manager, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence) |
| 12:45 – 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 – 14:30 |
SPOTLIGHT: MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE DATA 13:30 – 13:50: Behind the Scenes: Multimodal Data Analysis (Suzanne Little, Associate Professor, DCU) 13:50 – 14:10: Multimodal Data in the Medical Domain (Alexandra König, Neuropsychologist, INRIA) 14:10 – 14:30: Multi3Generation: Multimodal Data for Natural Language Generation (Anabela Barreiro, Chair COST Action Multi3Generation, Inesc-ID) |
| 14:30 – 15:15 |
BRIDGING THE LANGUAGE GAP: LT SOLUTIONS FOR EUROPE 14:30 – 14:45: EMBEDDIA: AI Technology for the Media Industry (Senja Pollak, EMBEDDIA Coordinator, Jozef Stefan Institute) 14:45 – 15:00: Microservices at your service (Sebastian Andersson, Solution Architect, Lingsoft) 15:00 – 15:15: ENRICH4ALL (Dimitra Anastasiou, Researcher, LIST - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology) |
| 15:15 – 15:30 |
Summary and Conclusions (Andrea Lösch, ELRC Project Manager, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence) |
