The first annual ELG conference

META-FORUM 2019

Introducing the European Language Grid

8/9 October 2019

Brussels, Belgium

Programme

08 October 2019 – META-FORUM 2019 Day 1


08:00	Doors open – Registration
Opening Session
09:00	Welcome and Introduction – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) – Slides
09:15	Welcome Address – Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic; Chair of META-NET Executive Board) – Slides
09:30	Opening Address – Jill Evans (Member of the European Parliament)
09:45	European Language Grid: An Overview – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) – Slides

10:05	Expo and Coffee Break

10:45	Opening Keynote: Gail Kent (Director of Directorate G “Data”, DG Connect, European Commission)

Session 1: Introducing the European Language Grid
11:15	Deep Dive 1 – ELG Community: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany), Katrin Marheinecke (DFKI, Germany), Katja Prinz (SAIL LABS, Austria) 01-01-ELG-Deep-Dive-1-Community – Slides
11:35	Deep Dive 2 – ELG Platform: Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece), Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia), Florian Kintzel (DFKI, Germany) – Slides
11:55	Deep Dive 3 – ELG Content: Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK), Ian Roberts (University of Sheffield, UK), Khalid Choukri (ELDA, France) – Slides
12:15	First Public Demonstration of ELG: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany), Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece), Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK) – Slides, video of the current ELG prototype
12:30	Announcing the ELG Open Calls: Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) – Slides
12:45	Discussion

13:00	Expo and Lunch Break

Invited Keynote Chair and moderator: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)
14:00	Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA): “Towards a Global Language Grid – Challenges and Opportunities” – cancelled

Session 2: Current EU Language Technology Research Projects Chair and moderator: José Manuel Gómez Pérez (Expert System, Spain)
14:45	ELITR: Barry Haddow (University of Edinburgh, UK) – Slides
14:52	COMPRISE: Emmanuel Vincent (Inria, France) – Slides
14:59	Bergamot: Uli Germann (University of Edinburgh, UK) – Slides
15:06	EMBEDDIA: Matthew Purver (University of London, UK) – Slides
15:13	Gourmet: Barry Haddow (University of Edinburgh, UK) – Slides
15:20	Prêt-à-LLOD: John McCrae (Insight Centre, Ireland) – Slides

15:30	Expo and Coffee Break

16:15	Session 3: Discussion Panel – Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence – Collaborations and Prospects Chair and moderator: Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic – META-NET and European Language Grid)
	Panellists: AI4EU: Patrick Gatellier (Thales, France) BDV: Laure Le Bars (SAP, Germany) CLAIRE: Morten Irgens (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway) HumanE AI: Paul Lukowicz (DFKI, Germany)

Session 4: Language Technology and Digital Public Services – CEF Automated Translation and INEA Projects Chair and moderator: Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)
17:15	Overview of CEF AT and INEA Projects – Philippe Gelin (European Commission) – Slides
17:25	Project: CEF INEA NEC-TM Data – Manuel Herranz (Pangeanic, Spain) – Slides
17:35	Project: CEF INEA Neural Translation for the EU – Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) – Slides
17:45	ELRC Country Profiles – Lilli Smal (DFKI, Germany) – Slides
17:55	Discussion

18:05	End of META-FORUM 2019 Day 1

09 October 2019 – META-FORUM 2019 Day 2


08:00	Doors open – Registration
09:00	Session 5: News from the Language Communities and selected ELG National Competence Centres (NCCs) Chair and moderator: Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia)
	Panellists: NCC Slovenia: Simon Krek (Jožef Stefan Institute, University of Ljubljana) – Slides NCC Denmark: Bolette Sandford Pedersen (University of Copenhagen) – Slides NCC Finland: Krister Linden (University of Helsinki) – Slides NCC Iceland: Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies) – Slides Davyth Hicks (European Language Equality Network, ELEN) – Slides

10:15	Expo and Coffee Break

Session 6: ELG and the European LT Industry Chair and moderator: Gerhard Backfried (Sail Labs, Austria) – Slides
10:45	CEF LT Market Study: Luc Meertens (Crosslang, Belgium) – Slides
11:00	The European Language Grid as the Primary Marketplace for European LT – with contributions from the ELG consortium partners from industry: SAIL LABS (Austria): Katja Prinz, Gerhard Backfried, Christoph Prinz – Slides Tilde (Latvia): Andrejs Vasiljevs – Slides Expert System (Spain): José Manuel Gómez Pérez, Andrés Garcia Silva – Slides
11:30	European LT Developers and LT Users: Demands and Ideas – with contributions from: K Dictionaries (Israel) – Ilan Kernerman – Slides 3pc (Germany) – Armin Berger – Slides SDL (UK) – George Bara Linagora (France) – Jean-Pierre Lorré – Slides Kairntech (France) – Stefan Geißler – Slides
12:10	Discussion

12:30	Expo and Lunch Break

Session 7: Selected relevant EU projects Chair and moderator: Khalid Choukri (ELDA, France)
13:30	WeVerify: Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK) – Slides
13:40	Elexis: Simon Krek (Institut Jožef Stefan, Slovenia) – Slides
13:50	Memad: Dieter Van Rijsselbergen (Limecraft, Belgium) – Slides
14:00	Lynx: Elena Montiel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) – Slides
14:10	Fandango: Francesco Saverio Nucci (Engineering, Italy) – Slides

Session 8: Sustainability of the ICT-29 Projects Chair and moderator: Georg Rehm (DFKI)
14:20	Overview of the Sustainability Plans of the ICT-29b) Projects: John McCrae (Insight Centre, Ireland) – Slides
14:30	European Language Grid – Towards a Legal Entity: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) – Slides
14:45	Discussion

15:00	Expo and Coffee Break

Invited Keynote Chair and moderator: Ulrich Germann (University of Edinburgh, UK)
15:45	Maxim Khalilov (Unbabel, Portugal): “Unbabel – AI-Powered Translation Solutions for Multilingual Europe”

Award Ceremony – META Seal of Recognition, META Prize Chair and moderator: Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) – Slides
16:30	2019 Winners of the META Seal of Recognition Mozilla – for their initiative to integrate Machine Translation into the browser – Slides Explosian.ai – for their highly efficient and popular spaCy software – Slides 2019 Winner of the Honorary META Prize Algirdas Saudargas – for his continued support of Multilingual Europe and the META-NET initiative 2019 Winner of the META Prize Jill Evans – for her supportive work regarding the European Parliament report “Language equality in the digital age”, published in 2018

Closing Session
17:15	Closing Remarks – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) – Slides

17:30	End of META-FORUM 2019