When?	24 November 2022
Where?	Virtual via Webex
Organization:	Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) The European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) consortium The Institute for Bulgarian Language (IBL), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS)

Language Technology is shaping our multilingual future. European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) workshop aims to raise awareness of the importance of language data collected and stored by public administrations and the benefits of sharing it.

For further information, please contact the local workshop managers:
Hristina Dobreva
Ministry of Transport and Communications
hdobreva@mtitc.government.bg

Kalina Ivanova
Ministry of Transport and Communications
kgivanova@mtitc.government.bg

Workshop programme

09:30 – 09:40	Welcome and introduction Mr. Ivan Markov, Secretary General of the Ministry of Transport and Communications Mrs. Hristina Dobreva, State expert in the Ministry of Transport and Communications and National Anchor Point (Presentation)
09:40 – 10:10	The new Digital Europe Programme and the Language Data Space Mr. Dhafer Lahbib, European Commission, DG CNNECT (Presentation)
10:10– 10:40	Language Technologies for Bulgarian language Prof. Dr. Svetla Koeva, IBL, BAS and National Anchor Point (Presentation)
10:40 – 11:00	The potential of Language Technology and AI – where we are, where we should be heading Mrs. Hristina Dobreva, State expert in the Ministry of Transport and Communications and National Anchor Point (Presentation)
11:00– 11:15	Break
11:15– 11:45	The CEF AT Platform – Presentation/Demo Mr. Bogomil Kovachev, European Commission, DG Translation (Presentation)
11:45– 12:15	Language technologies by/for the public sector. Moderator: Mrs. Hristina Dobreva, State expert in the Ministry of Transport and Communications and National Anchor Point (Presentation) Participants in the panel sessions: Mrs. Annie Rusinova, National Revenue Agency Presenting personal experience with sharing language resources and using the eTranslation (Presentation) Mr. Tsvetan Deyanov, Ministry of e-Governance Presenting the machine translation of text in the egov.bg portal (Presentation)
12:15– 12:45	Language data creation, management and sharing: existing practices and challenges Moderator: Moderator: Mrs. Hristina Dobreva, State expert in the Ministry of Transport and Communications and National Anchor Point (Presentation) Participants in the panel sessions: Mr. Stanimir Minkov, Council of Ministers Administration Presenting the Portal for public consultations - strategy.bg and the Platform for publicly available information - pitay.government.bg (Presentation) Mrs. Reny Borisova, Ministry of e-Governance Presenting the Open data portal - data.egov.bg (Presentation) Dr. Orlin Kouzov, GATE Presenting the application of technologies in administration Dr. Temenuzhka Spasova, Ministry of e-Governance Presenting the National Spatial Data portal - inspireportal.egov.bg (video) Mrs. Hristina Dobreva, State expert in the Ministry of Transport and Communications and National Anchor Point Presenting the Single information portal - COVID-19 - coronavirus.bg (Presentation)
12:45– 13:30	Demo session of LT and AI technologies available for Bulgaria Prof. Dr. Svetla Koeva, IBL, BAS and NAP Collection of multilingual resources for CEF.AT (Presentation) Dr. Yordan Kralev, Technical university of Sofia Multilingual image corpus for multimodal content processing (Presentation)
13:30 – 13:45	Conclusions Mrs. Hristina Dobreva, State expert in the Ministry of Transport and Communications and National Anchor Point (Presentation)

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