LangTech 2002: New International Forum on Language Technologies
The pace of commercial deployment of speech and language technologies has lead to strong calls for a high-level industry conference to showcase advancements and bring developers, entrepreneurs and researchers together with integrators, investors and corporations. LangTech 2002 will address the state of play from an industrial, R&D and academic viewpoint and demonstrate the potential to corporations to improve business processes through the adoption of speech and language technologies. Examples of contemporary language technologies in action include speech recognition interfaces, website translation tools, content management systems and cross lingual search engines. These technologies have found applicability in real world contexts from CRM to e-commerce and software localisation. The conference topics address the latest technology breakthroughs and are presented by experienced practitioners in the field. Practical solutions and near-market research results are presented during the conference and in the accompanying exhibition, showing state-of-the-art products and solutions. Special pitch sessions will enable SMEs and start-up companies to promote their products and services and explore funding possibilities, and a funding session will highlight the venture capital community views on language technology investments. LangTech 2002 is an EC supported initiative, through the involvement of EUROMAP Language Technologies. Bente Maegaard, Central Co-ordinator, EUROMAP stated, we view LangTech as an important development in bringing together the various parties comprising the language technologies sector for high level interaction and discussion. The conference is particularly useful for smaller concept developers seeking a valuable promotional platform.' Speaking contributions have already been secured from leading industry players including SAP, LingTech, DaimlerChrysler and Conexor. Noted technology scientist, Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), will make a keynote address.,
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