5th ELRC Conference
… because Language Data Matters!
Fifth ELRC Conference,
Date: 10 March 2021 (09:30 am to 3:30 pm)
Location: Zoom
We would like to thank everyone who participated in the 5th ELRC Conference, be it as speaker or as participant. Thank you for all the inspiring comments and useful contributions!
For all of you who would like to have another look at the presentations or for those who did not manage to join us, we have uploaded the full recording on Youtube.
Have a look at the conference report, providing insights into all presentations, discussions and key takeaways here.
5th ELRC Conference Agenda
| 09:30 – 09:45 |
Welcome by the EC June Lowery-Kingston, Head of Unit "Accessibility, Multilingualism & Safer Internet”, European Commission |
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09:45 – 10:00 |
Welcome and Introduction Andrea Lösch, DFKI |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
Inside ELRC and Digital Europe 10:00 – 10:15: ELRC Update Andrea Lösch, ELRC Project Manager, DFKI 10:15 – 10:30: European Language Industry Survey: Tech Tools – Initial Findings and Outlook John Anthony O’Shea, Legal Translation Practitioner, Board Member FIT Europe 10:30 – 11:00: Inside Digital Europe: LT Funding Opportunities Philippe Gelin, Head of Sector Multilingualism, European Commission |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee Break |
| 11:20 – 12:20 |
Spotlight: Quality of Data 11:20 – 11:40: Judging the quality of translations – a practical guide Renate Müller, Quality and Language Coordinator, DGT, European Commission 11:40 – 12:00: Using crawled data for MT development – promises and pitfalls Marcis Pinnis, Chief AI Officer, Tilde 12:00 – 12:20: Language data collection and LT development for low-resourced languages Andrew Bredenkamp, Chair, Translators without Borders |
| 12:20 – 12:30 |
Wrap-up and outlook Andrea Lösch, ELRC Project Manager, DFKI |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 – 14:30 |
Re-using Language Data: Technical Possibilities and legal constraints 13:30 – 13:50: Language Data Validation and Curation in ELRC Victoria Arranz, Head of Language Resources Projects - R&D, ELDA and Mickael Rigault, Junior Project Manager & Legal Counsel, ELDA 13:50 – 14:10: Anonymising language data within the CEF Data Marketplace Amir Kamran, Head of NLP, TAUS 14:10 – 14:30: How much anonymisation is needed – a legal perspective Andreas Sesing, Research Assistant, Manager of the Institute of Legal Informatics, Saarland University Jonas Baumann, Research Associate, University of Johannesburg |
| 14:30 – 15:15 |
Data Creation and Sharing in CEF Generic Services Resource Projects 14:30 – 14:45: Massive collection and curation of monolingual and bilingual data: focus on underresourced languages Miquel Esplà Gomis, Research Assistant, University of Alicante 14:45 – 15:00: Federated Termbank Gabriele Sauberer, Leader of Dissemination Work package TermNet, and Artūrs Vasiļevskis, Head of Machine Translation solutions, Tilde 15:00 – 15:15: PRINCIPLE Jane Dunne, EU Research Project Coordinator, and Andy Way, Deputy Director, ADAPT Centre |
| 15:15 – 15:30 |
Summary and Conclusions Andrea Lösch, ELRC Project Manager, DFKI |
