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Information Days

On this page you can find information about events we are organising relevant to both the ICT-FP7 and ICT-PSP Programmes and Calls.

Language Technology Days, 22-23 March 2010

Following the success of our Language Technology Days held in January 2009 which attracted some 250 partipants, we are again organising an event in Luxembourg which aims at informing prospective proposers about the upcoming ICT-PSP 4th Call and the ICT-FP7 Work Programme 2010-2011.  The particularities of each programme and call will be presented, and the similarities and differences highlighted.  High-level speakers will also be there to give presentations covering varied related topics, including newly started projects, the commercial viewpoint, future prospects, and much more.  The draft agenda below gives you an overview of the LT Days and links to the individual presentations when they become available.   Parallel sessions are shown with the same background colour.

Language Technology Days 22-23 March 210 Conference Centre, Jean Monnet Building
Day 1 - 22 March 2010
14h00-15h00	Registration of participants
15h00 - 17h00	Session 1: "Different initatives, different target communities, different business models ...... one common effort" The following representatives of major initiatives in the area of Language Resources have confirmed their participation and will present their views. Speakers : Jaap van der Meer, TAUS-TDA Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA Steven Krauwer, CLARIN Stelios Piperidis and Nicoletta Calzolari, T4ME
15h00 - 17h00	ICT-PSP Proposals Clinic You will have the chance to present your idea for a proposal to one of our Project Officers and get his/her immediate feedback Poster sessions plus the chance to do some free networking
Day 2 - 23 March 2010
08h30-09h15	Registration of participants
09h15 - 09h30	Opening and welcome Mrs Patricia Manson, acting Director Mr Roberto Cencioni, Head of Unit & Mr Kimmo Rossi, Deputy Head of Unit E1
09h30 - 10h00	Session 2 "Enterprise Language Processing: mega-trends and developments..." Keynote speaker: Don DePalma, Common Sense Advisory
10h00 - 10h45	Session 3: Overview of the Multilingual Web theme under the 4th PSP Call for Proposals Speaker: EC official
10h45 - 11h30	Session 4: Language Technologies within the ICT work programme 2011-2012 Main orientations and opportunities Speaker: EC official
11h30 - 13h15	Session 5: Presentation of ongoing and newly started Machine Translation projects Discussion of new and emerging challenges Speakers: Philipp Koehn, EUROMATRIX+ (SMT) Bill Byrne, FAUST (MT & user feedback) Christof Monz, COSYNE (MT & social media) Andy Way, PLUTO (MT & patents)
LUNCH
14h15 - 15h45	Session 6: Interactive session on the ICT-PSP call - How to design a successful proposal Administrative, financial and contractual information Brief presentation of successful consortia from the 2009 call Speakers: EC chair/speaker Adriane Rinsche, successful proposer, MORMED Bojan Petek, member of the evaluation panel
14h15 - 16h00	Session 7: Presentation of newly started Language Resources projects - community based platforms, shared infrastructure and services - methods and techniques for automating the discovery and acquisition process Discussion of new challenges and opportunities Speakers: Hans Uszkoreit, T4ME (LT "hub" for reusable language resources & technologies) Nuria Bel, PANACEA (parallel corpora) Andrejs Vasilijevs, ACCURAT (comparable corpora) Beatrice Daille, TTC (cross-lingual terminology)
16h00 - 17h30	Session 8: Evaluation "Evaluation for whom? Evaluating what?" Interactive session on competitions, tasks, metrics and resources:  what should be the role and function of evaluation in future ICT work programmes? Moderator and panellists: Emanuele Pianta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, CELCT Panellist: Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan University Panellist: Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI-CNRS Panellist: Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
14h15 - 16h00	ICT-PSP Proposals Clinic You will have the chance to present your idea for a proposal to one of our Project Officers and get his/her immediate feedback
Day 3 - 24 March 2010
09h30 - 13h00	Free "bottom-up" slot We will be pleased to host a couple of sessions devoted to specific themes and/or organised by a group of participants sharing common interests.

Registration

Registration is now open and will close on 26 February.  You can register by downloading the attached registration form, completing it and returning it with "LT Days" in the subject line to our E1 Mailbox.   Alternatively, you can send the required details in an e-mail to the same e-mail address.

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Participants

We encourage all participants in the Information Days to be active and promote their projects!  If you have not been invited as a speaker during the course of the two days, we warmly invite you to bring along posters and/or flyers describing your project. 

 

The full list of registered participants will be available here.

 

Proposals Clinic

If you have a proposal idea you would like to discuss with an EC official, this should reach us before 12 March 2010.  The outline should be maximum three A4 pages and should be structured according to the template below:

 

• Describe the rationale and the problem area your proposal addresses, in particular

   - Describe which problem you intend to solve and how

   - Details data sets: source(s), typology, volume

• How will the proposal contribute to the objectives and impacts set out in the Work Programme?

   - What are the key scientific and technological methods and innovations?

   - What public deliverables are foreseen?

   - What impact do you expect (scientific, technical, socio-economic)?

• Describe the consortium

   - Give partners; names or profiles and the intended skills mix

   -Indicate the intended instrument (if known)

• Indicate the scale of your ambition

   - What is the estimated effort (man-months)?

   - How long will the proposed project last?

   - What amount of EU funding are you looking for?

Send your proposal idea by e-mail to the E1 Mailbox with the mention "LT Days 2010 Proposals Clinic" in the subject field.

 

Previous Language Technology Days

To give you an idea of what this event will be like, have a look at last year's agenda, speaker profiles and participants list.

 

 

ICT 2010, 27-29 September 2010, Brussels

Every two years an event is organised jointly by the European Commission and whichever Member State currently holds the presidency of the European Union.  The conference aims to bring together all European researchers and policy makers.  In 2008 the conference took place in Lyon, France.  With more than 4500 registered participants, it was deemed to be one of the most successful conferences so far.  The event combines the conference, exhibition and networking sessions.  This time, the event will take place in the Heysel Conference Centre, Brussels.

 

 

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