Information Days
On this page you can find information about events we have organised relevant to both the ICT-FP7 and ICT-PSP Programmes and Calls.
We organised an "Information & Networking Day" for the SME-DCL (Digital Content and Languages) Call which opened on 1 February 2011. This event took place on 21 January 2011, and was held in the Jean Monnet Conference Centre in Luxembourg-Kirchberg.
The SME-DCL Call made available 35 MEUR funding for consortia that must include at least two SMEs, but which may of course include other types of organisations as appropriate for the proposal.
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Information & Networking Day |
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| 09h30-10h00 | Registration |
| 10h00-10h30 | Presentation of the SME-DCL Call |
| 10h30-11h00 | How to write a winning proposal |
| 11h00-11h15 | Q&A |
| Break | |
| 11h45-13h00 | Self-presentations by participants (max 5 minutes each) |
| Lunch | |
| 14h00-14h15 | Conclusions and launch of networking sessions |
| 14h15-15h30 | Networking and discussions in groups around identified areas of interest |
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Agenda and further information
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Two Information sessions to inform prospective proposers about the upcoming HLT calls were organised :
- 19 October 2010 in Luxembourg
- 17 November 2010 in Brussels
The Luxembourg event was held in the Jean Monnet Building Conference Complex. In the morning a presentation was made on the 2011-2012 Work Programme and upcoming Calls for Proposals, and was followed by a Q&A discussion. The afternoon was devoted to industrial and commercial players, in particular SMEs. Participants had the opportunity to present their project idea or organisation in a special "elevator pitch" session.
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Work Programme Information Days |
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| morning | Registration | |
| Welcome and introduction | ||
| Upcoming calls: an overview | ||
| Language technologies within ICT Call 7 | ||
| Language technologies within the ICT SME Call | ||
| Lunch | ||
| afternoon (parallel sessions) |
Q&A discussion/participants' presentations | Dedicated SME session including specific actions and instruments |
| Wrap-up/close | ||
The Brussels event took place on 17th and 18th November at Le Plaza Hotel in the framework of the META-FORUM 2010: "Challenges for Multilingual Europe". This event was a big success and attracted over 250 participants from 37 countries! The EC session was in the afternoon of the 17th with the agenda covering the same topics as in the Luxembourg information day on 19th October.
- Full programme META-FORUM 2010 including presentations
- EC session presentation ( 168 KB)
- Towards a Business Forum for Language Technology Stakeholders ( 65 KB)
- List of participants at both events (PDF 60 KB)
Language Technology Days, 22-23 March 2010
Following the success of our Language Technology Days held in January 2009 which attracted some 250 participants, we again organised an event in Luxembourg which aimed 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 were presented, and the similarities and differences highlighted. High-level speakers gave presentations covering varied related topics, including newly started projects, the commercial viewpoint, future prospects, and much more. The agenda below gives you an overview of the LT Days and links to the individual presentations. Parallel sessions are shown with the same background colour.
Language Technology Days22-23 March 2010Conference Centre, Jean Monnet Building |
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Day 1 - 22 March 2010 |
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| 14h00-15h00 |
Registration of participants |
| 15h00 - 17h00 |
Session 1: "Different initatives, different target communities, different business models ...... one common effort" (Room M6) The following representatives of major initiatives in the area of Language Resources will present their views. Chair: Roberto Cencioni, EC Speakers : Jaap van der Meer, TAUS-TDA Khalid Choukri, ELDA Steven Krauwer, CLARIN Hans Uszkoreit and Nicoletta Calzolari, META-NET (T4ME)
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| 15h00 - 17h00 |
ICT-PSP Proposals Clinic (Room M4) Participants had the chance to present their idea for a proposal to a Project Officer Poster sessions plus free networking |
Day 2 - 23 March 2010 |
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| 08h30 - 09h15 |
Registration of participants |
| 09h15 - 09h30 |
Opening and welcome (Room M6) 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 - 10h40 |
Session 3: Overview of the Multilingual Web theme under the 4th PSP Call for Proposals Speaker: Kimmo Rossi, EC |
| 10h40 - 11h30 |
Session 4: Language Technologies within the ICT work programme 2011-2012 Main orientations and opportunities Speaker: Roberto Cencioni, EC Synopsis of WP 2011-2012 Consultations |
| 11h30 - 13h15 |
Session 5: Presentation of ongoing and newly started Machine Translation projects Discussion of new and emerging challenges Chair:Kimmo Rossi, EC Speakers: Philipp Koehn, EUROMATRIX+ (statistical MT) Bill Byrne, FAUST (MT & user feedback) Christof Monz, COSYNE (MT & social media) Andy Way, PLUTO (MT & patents) |
LUNCH |
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| 14h15 - 15h45 |
Session 6: Interactive session on the ICT-PSP call - How to design a successful proposal (Room M1) Administrative, financial and contractual information Brief presentation of successful consortia from the 2009 call Chair/speaker: Kimmo Rossi, EC Speaker: Adriane Rinsche, successful proposer, MORMED Draft template for proposals under 6.1 (This draft template is intended to be an aid for prospective proposers. It follows several enquiries we received since the publication of Call 4). |
| 14h15 - 16h00 |
Session 7: Presentation of newly started Language Resources projects (Room M6) - community based platforms, shared infrastructure and services - methods and techniques for automating the discovery and acquisition process Discussion of new challenges and opportunities Chair: Roberto Cencioni, EC Speakers: Hans Uszkoreit, META-NET (formerly T4ME - LT "hub" for reusable language resources & technologies) Nuria Bel, PANACEA (parallel corpora) Andrejs Vasiljevs, ACCURAT (comparable corpora) Beatrice Daille, TTC (cross-lingual terminology) |
| 16h00 - 16h15 |
Break |
| 16h15 - 17h30 |
Session 8: Evaluation (Room M6) "Evaluation for whom? Evaluating what?" Interactive session on challenges, tasks, metrics and resources: what should be the role and function of evaluation in future ICT work programmes? Chair: Roberto Cencioni, EC 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 (Room M4) Participants had the chance to present their idea for a proposal to a Project Officer |
Participants
The full list of registered participants is available here. (22 KB)
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