Latvian language in digital Europe
| When: | 30.11.2022 13:00-17:00 (registration form 12:30) |
| Where: | The European Union House (Aspazijas bulvāris 28, Riga) |
| Organizers: |
European Language Resource Coordination Consortium Culture Information Systems Centre Tilde |
In this workshop, the European Language Resource Coordination Consortium gathers decision-makers and experts from the Latvian State Administration, Research and Technology Community in order to promote cooperation at the national and European levels for broader use of Latvian language technologies in public administration and digital services.
Multilingualism is one of Europe's greatest value, but at the same time it is also a challenge faced by many institutions in their daily work. Language technologies facilitate communication in different languages and the exchange of documents between European public authorities. Artificial intelligence-based solutions - machine translation, multilingual access to websites, speech recognition and smart assistants - are changing how public administrations, citizens and businesses communicate in the digital environment. To ensure equal opportunities for everyone, the European Commission and Latvian State Administration institutions provide technological platforms for automated translation and multilingual communication.
At the seminar, officials of the European Commission, representatives of public institutions, language technologists and language service providers will share best practices, experiences and highlight development challenges for the wider use of language technologies in public services and the work of public administrations. Your views and participation are of the utmost importance for developing language technology services tailored to your needs at the national and European levels.
Welcome to the ELRC seminar. Its organiser is the European Language Resource Coordination Consortium in cooperation with the Culture Information Systems Centre; the local organiser is the language technology company Tilde.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with organizers representative Aivars Bērziņš:
Phone. nr. 29206344
E-mail: riga-seminar@lr-coordination.eu
Agenda of the workshop
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Registration |
| 13:00 - 13:15 |
Opening Andrejs Vasiļjevs, ELRC |
| 13:15 - 13:35 |
European Linguistic Equality (ELE) - Latvian language in the Digital Age - ELE project study Inguna Skadiņa, University of Latvia, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics |
| 13:35 - 14:05 |
Common European Language Data Space Philippe Gelin (Head of Unit G3: Accessibility, Multilingualism and Safer Internet, DG CONNECT, EC) |
| 14:05 - 14:25 |
The CEF eTranslation platform/CEF LT services Christopher Scott, Computational Linguist - Directorate General for Translation (DGT) - European Commission |
| 14:25 - 14:45 |
HUGO.LV - Latvian state administration language technology platform Jānis Ziediņš, Culture Information Systems Centre |
| 14:45 - 15:05 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:05 - 16:55 |
Artificial intelligence technologies - a colleague and daily assistant for the state administration Moderator: Andrejs Vasiļjevs, ELRC |
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Virtual assistants - assistants in daily work with clients Helmuts Ancāns, Bank of Latvia Kristīne Ilgaža, Rural Support Service Mētra Aržanovska, State Chancellery |
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Speech technology solutions Ieva Kalderauska, National Council of Electronic Media Indulis Bikše, The Parliament of the Republic of Latvia |
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Machine translation solutions Kaspars Milaševičs, Latvian Standard Vents Armands Krauklis, Municipality of Valka region |
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| 16:55 - 17:10 | Conclusions |
