| When? | 10 November 2021 |
| Where? | National Defence Academy , Stiftgasse 2a, 1070 Vienna (2G rule) + virtual |
| Organisation |
• The European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) consortium |
Language Technology is shaping our multilingual future. It has already been transforming the way we interact with each other, the way we work, shop and travel. More and more it reshapes our interaction with digital services, both public and private. Digital assistants that transform our voices to text messages on mobile phones, bots that answer our calls to the bank or to our social security organisation, systems that automatically translate from a foreign language, and many more innovative applications, are empowering our everyday lives, our businesses and our administrations. But do the existing solutions allow us to use our own language in all digital interactions? Are they really ready for use yet? And is our language adequately supported and ready to keep pace with the technological advancements of the AI era?
The Austrian European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) workshop addresses these questions and seeks to engage participants from both public services and industry in a fruitful discussion on the status and prospects of Language Technology in and for Austria. Developers, integrators and users of Language Technology, both from the private and public sector will share experiences, requirements and ways for transforming digital interaction in our multilingual Europe with Language Technologies. Finally, we will discuss how language data, i.e. texts and speech, can fuel development in Artificial Intelligence.
The ELRC workshop is a free event, but registration is required here. Please keep in mind that for on-site participation a 2G rule (vaccinated, recovered) applies. If a 2G certification cannot be provided, please consider online participation on Zoom.
For further information, please contact the ELRC Secretariat at info@lr-coordination.eu.
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Workshop programme
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 – 09:05 |
Introduction Elisa Schnell, BA MA (NAP) and Ass.-Prof. Dr. Dagmar Gromann (NAP) |
| 09:05 – 09:10 |
Welcome Lieutenant General Mag. Erich Csitkovits, Commandant, Austrian National Defence Academy |
| 09:10 – 09:35 |
Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Latest trends and Prof. Benjamin Roth, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienn |
| 09:35 – 10:20 |
Language Technology in and for Austria from the industry Klaus Fleischmann, MA, CEO of Kaleidoscope |
| 10:20 – 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 – 11:15 |
Advances of the CEF AT platform Andreas Eisele, Project Manager Machine Translation, Directorate-General for Translation, European Commission |
| 11:15 – 12:00 |
Language technologies in and for Austria by/for the public sector Ass. jur. Matthias Lichtenthaler, Federal Computing Center |
| 12:00 – 12:30 |
Language Technologies: requirements and offerings (Q&A session) Moderation: Mag. Elisabeth Müller-Lipold and Ass.-Prof. Dr. Dagmar Gromann |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 – 13:45 |
Value of data for the development of top quality Language Mag. Hannes Pirker, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and |
| 13:45 - 14:30 |
Language data creation, management and sharing: existing Ing. Brigitte Lutz, MSc, Open Data Portal, City of Vienna |
| 14:30 – 14:35 |
Lightning Talks for Language Technology demonstrations |
| 14:35 – 14:40 |
Concluding remarks Elisa Schnell, BA MA (NAP) and Ass.-Prof. Dr. Dagmar Gromann (NAP) |
| 14:40 – 15:30 | Demo session of Language Technologies and socializing |
