Past events
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2012
April
Nuance Automotive Forum Europe 2012
16-17 April: Stuttgart, Germany
Nuance Automotive Forum is a premier networking event where executives and experts from leading automotive companies come together to discuss the future of automotive HMI and its impact on the business. Drivers increasingly expect cars that are always connected to the Internet, provide location-based services and allow them to send messages or stay connected to social networks. At the conference several ground-breaking innovative solutions will be introduced that smartly integrate different modalities and technologies to enable safe and convenient completion of tasks while on the go, including multilingual solutions. For the full programme and details of how to register, please visit the website.
The World Wide Web Conference
16-20 April: Lyon, France
The World Wide Web Conference is a yearly international conference on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web. It began in 1994 at CERN and is organized by the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2). The Conference aims to provide the world a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The conference brings together researchers, developers, users and commercial ventures—indeed all those who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer. WWW2012 will focus on “openness” in web technologies, standards and practices, and will showcase the best of the region’s technology and culture.
One of the keynote speakers will be Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission and European Digital Agenda Commissioner. For more information about the conference please visit the official website.
Translation in the 21st Century
19-20 April: Tokyo, Japan
TAUS Executive Forums are two-days meetings for buyers and providers of language services and technologies, aimed at an open exchange about language business innovation and translation technology. The TAUS Tokyo Executive Forum 2012 is the second TAUS meeting in Japan. Language and translation business is undergoing dramatic changes, characterized by a growing number of languages, a shift to more dynamic content and user-centric publishing. In this rapidly changing environment buyers and providers of language services and technologies are challenged to change their business models. In the TAUS Executive Forums we invite language industry operators to help define strategies for translation in the 21st century. For full details of the call for proposals and how to register, please visit the website.
13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for computational Linguistics
23-27 April: Avignon, France
The EACL conference is the triennial conference of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). EACL-2012 will be the thirteenth EACL conference, building on the success of previous conferences in Athens (2009) and Trento (2006).
The conference will give the chance to present a large number of original and unpublished research in all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include disciplines such as psycholinguistics, speech, information retrieval, multimodal language processing, and language issues in emerging domains such as bioinformatics and social media. For full programme information including the list of keynote speakers, and details of how to register please visit the website.
Asia Translation Summit
24-25 April: Beijing, China
Language translation is critical for global business, knowledge sharing and learning. Translation helps to foster education, drive innovation, spur growth, develop countries and lead discovery. Translation is a key to a better world. No wonder that the translation industry in Asia is booming. The TAUS Asia Translation Summit is a strategic and future-oriented conference for everyone who cares about translation services and technologies in Asian languages.
Qualico 2012: Structures and Processes in Language and Text: A Quantitative Linguistics Perspective
26-29 April: Belgrade, Serbia
Over the last three decades, Quantitative Linguistics has undergone a rapid and promising development, with respect to both theory and application. Quantitative methods are constantly gaining importance in all branches of language and text research. The quantitative approach to language opens up important and exciting theoretical perspectives, as well as solutions for a wide range of practical problems, by introducing into linguistics the methods and models of advanced scientific disciplines such as the natural sciences, economics, and psychology. The International Quantitative Linguistics Association (IQLA) was founded in 1994. In December 2007, the IQLA Members' Meeting agreed on the organization of biannual QUALICO conferences, in order to intensify contact and exchange of ideas. The last conference took place in Graz, Austria (2009), the next will be held in Belgrade, Serbia (2012) and Athens, Greece (2014). For full programme information including the list of keynote speakers, and details of how to register please visit the website.
January
2012 International School in Language and Speech Technologies
23-27 January: Tarragona, Spain
WSLST 2012 offered a broad and intensive series of lectures on language and speech technologies at different levels. Participating students were able to choose their preferred courses according to their interests and background. The aim of the school was to help students, with the aid of top-name instructors, initiate and foster their research careers. Full details on the school and its courses are available on the website.
2011
December
NTCIR - 9 Workshop Meeting
6-9 December: Tokyo, Japan
The NTCIR Workshop is a series of evaluation workshops designed to enhance research in information access technologies including information retrieval, summarization, extraction, question answering, etc. The aims are to encourage research in information access technologies by providing large-scale infrastructure of research and evaluation; to provide a forum for research groups interested in evaluation and exchanging research ideas in an informal atmosphere; and to investigate evaluation methods and metrics of information retrieval and access technologies. Anybody interested in the research and development in IR and other information access technologies and their evaluation are welcome to join NTCIR-9 Meeting and EVIA regardless of participation of the evaluation task(s) set by the NTCIR-9 organizers. For full details visit the website.
November
IJCNLP 2011
8-13 November: Chiang Mai, Thailand
The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on November 8-13, 2011. The conference will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. IJCNLP 2011 will include full papers, short papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. Full details including how to register are on the conference website.
Search Solutions 2011 - Innovations in Web & Enterprise Search
16 November: London, UK
Search Solutions is a special one-day event dedicated to the latest innovations in web & enterprise search. In contrast to other major industry events, Search Solutions aims to be highly interactive, with attendance strictly limited. The programme includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval. NOTE: Search Solutions now offers a Tutorial Programme on Tuesday 15th November. Search Solutions is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (British Computer Society), and is held at the BCS Central London Office. For full programme information including the list of keynote speakers, and details of how to register please visit the website.
Supporting Digital Humanities 2011
17-18 November: Copenhagen, Denmark
SDH2011 - Answering the unaskable. For the second time the CLARIN and DARIAH initiatives have decided to jointly organise the second SDH conference which will be held at the University of Copenhagen. Digital technologies have the potential to transform the types of research questions that are asked in the Humanities, and to address traditional questions in new and exciting ways, but ultimately they will also answer questions that we were not even aware we could ask, hence the title of this conference. How can digital humanities help not just to find the answers to research questions more quickly and more easily, but also to formulate research questions we would never have been able to ask without access to large quantities of digital data and sophisticated tools for their analysis? Supporting the Digital Humanities will be a forum for the discussion of these innovations, and of the ways in which these new forms of research can be facilitated and supported. Full details can be found on the website.
LIHMT 2011 - International Workshop on Using Linguistic Information for Hybrid Machine Translation
18 November, Barcelona, Spain
The one-day workshop is being organised as part of the dissemination effort of the OpenMT-2 project, a Spanish government funded, three-year, multisite research effort addressing, on the one hand, approaches to integrating structural information (morphological, syntactic and semantic) into open-source SMT and, on the other, to developing novel automatic MT evaluation using linguistically motivated metrics. Thus, the central issues to be addressed during the workshop include:methods and techniques for integrating structural information (syntactic and semantic) into HMT, methods and techniques for handling morphologically rich languages (e.g. Basque) within HMT, alternative approaches to automatic MT evaluation relying on linguistic criteria.
The programme will include three invited plenary talks, each addressing one of the central issues above, and the presentation of a number of refereed contributions on related topics. For full details visit the website.
ML4HMT-2011 - Shared Task on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation
19 November, Barcelona, Spain
The workshop will explore alternatives in order to provide optimal support for Hybrid MT design, using sophisticated machine-learning techniques. One further important objective of the workshop is to build bridges from MT to the ML community to systematically and jointly explore the choice space for Hybrid Machine Translation. For more details visit the website.
October
Localization World
10-12 October: Silicon Valley, USA
Localization World is back in the heart of Silicon Valley! Its main programme theme this year is "Innovation" and five tracks will cover topics such as:Global Business Best Practices,Localization Core Competencies, Advanced Localization Management, Managing Global Websites and The Inside Track. It is desigend to appeal to newcomers and industry veterans alike, and will offer ample opportunities for networking and business introductions. For the full programme and details of how to register visit the conference website.
Bringing MT to the User: Research meets Translators
14 October: Luxembourg
The Joint EuroMatrix-CNGL (JEC) 2011 workshop will be hosted by the Directorate General for Translation (DGT) in Luxembourg. In keeping with previous JECs, the format of the workshop is highly interactive with research paper presentations, invited talks and a panel discussion. This third joint workshop is being organised by the EuroMatrixPlus project, the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), DGT, and Autodesk. Full details available on the workshop web page.
Computational Linguistics - Applications Conference - CLA'11
17-19 October: Jachranka, Poland
The Computational Linguistics - Applications Conference was established in 2008 in order to create a dialogue between researchers and practitioners involved in Computational Linguistics and related areas of Information Technology. This year's conference, the fifth in the series, will be held in the Warszawianka Hotel Wellness & Spa near Warsaw. The programme and registration details can be found on the website.
The 10th International Semantic Web Conference
23-27 October: Bonn, Germany
ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. Of particular interest this year is the 2nd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web. This is being organised in view of the success of last year's workshop and the fact that research interest is growing rapidly in this area. For full details of the conference, workshop, registration and calls for papers, visit the website.
September
The Machine Translation Marathon
5-10 September: Trento, Italy
RANLP 2011
12-14 September: Hissar, Bulgaria
RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the most established and competitive NLP conferences. The event is held biennially and grew out of the International summer schools "Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics", which were organised for many years as training events. The 8th RANLP conference took the form of speeches by invited keynote speakers and presentations of peer-reviewed individual papers. There was also an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. The conference was preceded by two days of tutorials (10-11 September 2011). Post-conference workshops were held on 15-16 September 2011.
CLEF 2011
19-22 September: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
CLEF 2011 - Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation followed the successful format of CLEF 2010. That is, a four-day event with a conference covering a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation, and a set of labs and workshops designed to test different aspects of mono and cross-language Information retrieval systems. Together, the conference and the lab series maintained and expanded upon the traditional CLEF Track philosophy.
Machine Translation Summit XIII
19-23 September: Xiamen, China
This was the thirteenth Machine Translation Summit, organized by the International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) and hosted by the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT) and Chinese Informaton Processing Society of China (CIPS). MT Summit XIII featured a comprehensive program that included research papers, reports on users' experiences, discussions of policy issues, invited talks, panels, exhibits, tutorials, and workshops. Machine Translation was defined in the broadest possible sense, to include not just fully automatic MT but tools for translation support and multilingual text processing as well. The full summit programme can be found on the website.
MultilingualWeb 3rd Workshop
21-23 September: Limerick, Ireland
This was the third workshop of a series of four and had as its title "A local focus for the Multilingual Web". The working shop was co-located with the 16th annual LRC Internationalisation & Localisation conference (September 22-23). For more details about the programme please visit the website. You can also find information about the Internationalisation & Localisation Conference on their website.
Multilingual Competences for Professional and Social Success in Europe
28-29 September: Warsaw, Poland
This conference, organised under the auspices of the Polish Presidency, aimed to show the impact of multilingual competences on professional and social success in Europe. The debates during panel sessions and workshops focused mainly on acquiring multilingual competences, communication and the increased demand for language services. More details on the conference website.
TM-Europe 2011
29-30 September: Warsaw, Poland
The theme of this year's Translation Management Europe Conference was "Process Management and Standards for the Translation and Localisation Industry". The conference focused on management issues for the translation and localisation industry, with particular emphasis on process management and standards. The previous conferences covered vendor and process management from the global and the local perspective, quality and terminology management, and technology and project management. TM-Europe 2011 focused on process management and standards for the translation and localisation industry and their practical business application. Full programme is available on the conference website.
August
NLPCS2011 - special theme: Human-machine interaction in translation
20-21 August: Copenhagen, Denmark
This was the 8th international workshop on natural language processing and cognitive science and its aim was to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Processing working within the paradigm of Cognitive Science. The overall emphasis of the workshop was on the contribution of cognitive science to language processing, including conceptualisation, representation, discourse processing, meaning construction, ontology building and text mining. In view of the special theme the organisers particularly welcomed papers addressing aspects of human and machine translation and human-computer interaction in translation.
June
6 June: Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Localisation World Barcelona
14-16 June: Barcelona, Spain
27-28 June: Budapest, Hungary
29 June - 1 July: London, UK
May
SpeechTEK Europe 2011
25-26 May: London, UK
This was the second SpeechTEK Europe Conference and Exhibition. By late 2010 it was estimated that 1.2 billion people around the world will carry handsets capable of rich, mobile commerce. This Conference explored this new environment for the convergence of mobility, addressing issues specific to the European marketplace, including the use of mobile devices that enable customer interactions any time, anywhere, and in any language. The full programme is available on the website.
3rd FLaReNet Forum: "Language Resources in the Sharing Age: The Strategic Agenda"
26-27 May: Venice, Italy
This 3rd FLaReNet Forum was hosted by FLARENET to review and discuss the strategic research agenda. Further information has been published on the FLaReNEt website http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=FLaReNet_Forum_2011.
EAMT 2011
30-31 May: Leuven, Belgium
This was the 15th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation. The venue of the conference was the Faculty of Arts of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and the conference was organized by the Centre for Computational Linguistics. Everyone interested in machine translation was invited to participate in this conference - developers, researchers, users, professional translators, managers, marketing experts - anyone who has a stake in the vision of an information world in which language issues become transparent to the information consumer. Especially invited to share their experiences were users, developers to describe what is happening in the internet marketplace, researchers looking to new capabilities, and visionaries to describe the future.
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