When? | 27 May 2022 |
Where? | Jožef Stefan Institute (Great Hall), Jamova cesta 39, Ljubljana |
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 our devices and with each other, the way we shop, work and travel. More and more it reshapes our interaction with service providers, either public or private. Programs that automatically correct spelling errors and aid sophisticated writing, 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 much more, are already empowering our everyday lives, our businesses and our administrations. But can we fully use our own language in our digital interactions? Is our language adequately supported and ready to keep pace with the technological advancements of the AI era?
The third Slovenian European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) workshop will address these questions and it will seek to engage participants in a fruitful discussion on the status and prospects of Language Technology for Slovenian. 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. Please register here.
For further information, please contact the local workshop manager: Simon Krek, Jožef Stefan Institute: simon.krek@ijs.si
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Workshop programme
ELRC WORKSHOP |
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08:00 – 09:00 | Registration |
09:00 – 09:30 |
Welcome and introduction Simon Krek, Jozef Stefan Institute and Centre for Language Resources and Technologies, University of Ljubljana |
09:30 – 09:55 |
eTranslation Miha Žličar, Directorate General for Translation, European Commission |
09.55 – 10:20 |
Update from the ELRC Thierry Declerck, DFKI / European Language Resource Coordination |
10.20 – 10:30 | Discussion/questions |
10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee Break |
10:45 – 11:00 |
Machine Translation for Slovenian Iztok Lebar Bajec, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana |
11:00 – 11:15 |
Speech Technology for Slovenian Marko Bajec, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana |
11:15 – 11:30 |
Semantic Technology for Slovenian Slavko Žitnik, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana |
11:30 – 11:45 |
Slovenian Terminology Portal Miro Romih, Amebis |
11:45 – 12:00 |
FedTerm CEF project Andraž Repar, Jozef Stefan Institute |
12:00 – 12:15 |
National programme on encouraging the development and use of artificial intelligence by 2025 Samo Zorc, Government Office for Digital Transformation |
12:15 – 12:45 |
Discussion/questions. Speakers from the morning session in the panel |
12:45 – 13:30 | Lunch Break |
ELG WORKSHOP |
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13:30 – 14:00 |
The European Language Grid and European Language Equality Projects Penny Labropoulou, Institute for Language and Speech Processing/R.C. “Athena”, Greece |
14:00 – 14:20 | Panel on ELG and Synergies with the Slovenian LT community as presented in the morning sessions |
14:20 – 14:40 | Conclusions |