International conference. September 21, 2012. Riga, Latvia
8:15 Registration open
8:30 Conference exhibits open
9:00 Opening session
Opening address (video)
Valdis Dombrovskis, Prime Minister of Latvia
Keynotes (video)
Language as cornerstone of European cultural diversity and our national identity
Žaneta Jaunzeme-Grende, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Latvia (video)
Languages and the publishing strategy of the EU Publications Office
Harolds Celms, Director, Publications Office of the European Union (video)
9:40 Preparing European Languages for the Digital Age
Chaired by Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Chairman of the Board, Tilde
Translating for a multilingual European Union (video)
Uldis Priede, Head of Department, DGT Translation, European Commission
Language Technologies for a Better Understanding: European Research on a Core Component of Next Generation IT (video)
Hans Uszkoreit, Scientific Director, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Support for Language Technologies and Language Resources in Current and Upcoming EU programmes (video)
Kimmo Rossi, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Language Resource Infrastructures Boosting European Research and Innovation in Language Technologies - The case of META-SHARE (video)
Stelios Piperidis, President of the European Language Resource Association, Head of Department, ILSP/”Athena” RC
Latvian perspective (video)
Lauma Sīka, Acting State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Science, Latvia
11:15 Coffee break
11:45 Baltic Languages in the Digital Age
Presentation and discussion on the key findings of the META-NET Language Whitepapers
Chaired by Hans Uszkoreit, Scientific Director, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Kadri Vider, Head of the Center of Estonian Language Resources (video)
Andrejs Veisbergs, Head of the Presidential State Language Commission, Latvia (video)
Inguna Skadiņa, Chief Research Officer, Tilde, Latvia (video)
Daiva Vaišnienė, Chairperson of the State Commission of Lithuanian Language (video)
13:10 Buffet lunch
14:10 National Activities in Language Technology Field
Chaired by prof. Imants Freibergs, Former President of Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association (LIKTA)
Armands Magone, Director of Culture Information Systems Agency, Latvia (video)
Jolanta Zabarskaite, Director, Institute of Lithuanian Language (video)
Kadri Vider, Head of the Center of Estonian Language Resources (video)
15:10 Coffee break
15:30 Application of Language Technologies
Chaired by Armands Magone, Director of Culture Information Systems Agency, Latvia
Providing Language Technologies for the Global Market (video)
Ēriks Eglītis, Country manager, Microsoft Latvia
Developing Language Technology Applications for Smaller Languages (video)
Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tilde, Latvia
Natural Language Processing at IMCS UL (video)
Normunds Grūzītis, Researcher, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia
Interactive e-Learning Materials for Language Acquisition (video)
Dace Baumgarte, e-learning Project Manager, Datorzinību Centrs JSC, Latvia
16:45 Launch of Specialized Machine Translation Portal LetsMT (video)
Raivis Skadiņš, Chief Software Architect, Tilde, Latvia
17:00 Closing cocktail
