2nd ELRC Conference
When: |
26 October 2016 |
Where: |
Sicco Mansholt Room, Charlemagne Building, Rue de la Loi 170, Brussels |
|
8:00 – 09:00 |
Registration |
| 09:00 – 09:30 |
Opening addresses Marco Marsella - Head of Unit, DG CNECT, Unit G3 Learning, Multilingualism and Accessibility (Presentation) (Video) Josef van Genabith - ELRC Coordinator and Scientific Director, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH (Presentation) (Video) |
| 09:30 – 10:00 |
Automated Translation platform of Connecting Europe Facility (CEF): Making public online services multilingual Aleksandra Wesolowska, Programme Officer, DG CNECT, Unit G3 Learning, Multilingualism and Accessibility (Presentation) (Video) |
| 10:00 – 11:00 |
The use of MT as a supporting tool for language professionals |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
The use of MT@ EC within the European Commission Katja Mai, Translator and CATE-Lab Coordinator, DGT (Presentation) (Video) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 |
The use of MT by language service providers Jaroslaw Ganczarenko, Translation Engineer, GET IT Language Solutions (Presentation) (Video) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 12:00 |
The use of MT at universities Alexander Waibel, Director of the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies, Head of Interactive Systems Lab, Carnegie Mellon University / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Presentation) (Video) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 |
The value of data for good machine translations Marcus Danei, Product Manager Language Technology, SAP Language Services, SAP SE (Presentation) (Video) |
| 12:30 – 13:00 |
Sharing language resources in the public sector Prodromos Tsiavos, Legal Advisor, Athena Research Centre (Presentation) (Video) |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Lunch break |
| 13:45 – 14:45 | Best practice examples for sharing language resources in public service administrations |
| 13:45 – 14:05 |
Spotlight: Status quo of data contributions from public service administrations within ELRC Khalid Choukri, ELRC Partner and CEO, Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency ELDA (Presentation) (Video) |
| 14:05 – 14:25 |
Data collection context and strategy in Ireland Aodhán Mac Cormaic, Assistant Principal, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltracht Affairs (Presentation) (Video) |
| 14:25 – 14:45 |
Data collection context and strategy in Germany Alexandra Soska, Z II 5 Language Service, Federal Ministry of the Interior (Presentation) |
| 14:45 – 15:30 |
Panel: How to enable the sharing of language resources in public service Administrations Aleksandra Wesolowska, Programme Officer, DG CNECT, Unit G3 Learning, Multilingualism and Accessibility (Presentation) (Video) Andrejs Vasiljevs, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, Tilde Josef van Genabith, ELRC Coordinator and Scientific Director, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH Khalid Choukri, ELRC Partner and CEO, Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency ELDA Stelios Piperidis, Head of Department, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ILSP Pierre Zweigenbaum, Head of ILES Group, CNRS Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur, LIMSI |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Outlook: Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs) to benefit from automated translation |
| 16:00 – 16:20 |
Online Dispute Resolution Platform (ODR) Xenios Xenophontos, DG Justice and Consumers (Presentation) (Video) |
| 16:20 – 16:40 |
European Data Portal Wendy Carrara, Director and EU Policy Advisor, Capgemini Consulting (Presentation) (Video) |
| 16:40 – 17:00 |
Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI) Phil Cummings, DG EMPL, Unit R4 and Franciska Barabas-Komives, DG EMPL, Legal Expertise and EESSI (Presentation) (Video) |
| 17:00 – 17:15 |
Summary and conclusions Josef van Genabith, ELRC Coordinator and Scientific Director, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH (Video) |
| From 17:30 | Champagne reception |
