When? 30 September 2021
Where? https://ec.europa.eu/estonia/about-us/contact_et + virtual 
Organisation

•    The European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) consortium
•    European Commission Directorate General for Translation (DGT)
•    Tilde Eesti OÜ

 

Workshop programme

Workshop programme in Estonian here

09:45 Opening remarks by the Acting Head of Estonian Language Department, DGT, Ms Leila Anupõld
10:00

“Has the machine translation really reached human parity?”

Samuel Läubli, Universität Zürich, Institut für Computerlinguistik

11:00

“How the neural machine translation exactly works?”

Mark Fišel, University of Tartu, Institute of Computer Science, Professor in natural language processing 

Presentation

11:45

“eTranslation – latest developments”

Hugo-Tanel Kaasik, DGT ET translator

Presentation

12:15

Panel discussion on pros and cons of the machine translation from the users perspective 

Moderator - PAEMURD Elis 

13:00 Lunch Break
14:00

Estonian Translators’ Survey 2021

Kerli Ilves, University of Tartu Skytte Institute of Political Studies

Presentation

14:30

State of play of the Estonian Language Technology Development program

Kadri Vare, Project Manager (Estonian Language Technology) at The Ministry of Education and Research / Susanna Oja, Head of Competence Centre for NLP at Institute of the Estonian Language  

Presentation

15:00

The central translation environment – results of the analysis and prototype procurement

Mari Peetris, Translation Adviser at the State Gazette Division of the Ministry of Justice / Maarja Ottis, Business Analyst at the Department of Supporting Information Systems of the Centre of Registers and Information Systems

Presentation

15:30

MTee MT engines project

Susanna Oja, Head of Competence Centre for NLP at Institute of the Estonian Language

Presentation

16:00

National Language Technology Platform (NLTP) project and its impact for Estonia

Martin Luts, Language Engineering Specialist for Tilde Eesti  

Presentation

The third European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) workshop in Estonia