The CEF conference "Towards a Connected Multilingual Europe" will be held on Day Three of the Riga Summit. Pan-European digital service infrastructures (DSIs) foreseen in the CEF programme will deliver online public services for EU Member State administrations, citizens and economic operators. Automated Translation (AT) is one of the DSIs, and will provide automated translation services to all other CEF DSIs that necessitate multilingual communication or exchange of documents and other linguistic content between administrations, citizens and economic operators.

 

April 29, 2015
 

8:00-9:00

Registration

 

9:00-9:40

Opening addresses (MultilingualWeb and CEF conference)

Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Unit, Data Value Chain, European Commission, DG Connect Video
Dace Melbārde, Minister of Culture, Republic of Latvia Video 
Jānis Kārkliņš, Internet Governance Forum Video
Richard Ishida, W3C

9:40-10:00

Coffee Break

10:00-10:30

Keynote: 

Digital Priorities of the 2015 EU Presidency

Gatis Ozols, Head of the eServices Unit, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Latvia Video Presentation

10:30-12:00 

Setting the Scene: Connecting Europe Facility and Digital Service Infrastructures (CEF and DSIs)

Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Unit, Data Value Chain, European Commission, DG Connect Video  Presentation
Jānis Ziediņš, Project Manager, Culture Information Systems Centre, Latvia Video Presentation
Joao Rodrigues Frade, CEF project & architecture office, DG DIGIT Video Presentation
Aleksandra Wesolowska, Project Officer, Data Value Chain, European Commission, DG Connect Video Presentation

12:00-13:00

Setting the Scene: Automated Translation DSI (AT.DSI)

Aleksandra Wesolowska, Project Officer, Data Value Chain, European Commission, DG Connect Video Presentation
John Judge, ADAPT, Ireland Video Presentation
Spyridon Pilos, Head of Sector "Language Applications", European Commission, DG Translation Video Presentation

13:00-14:00Lunch

14:00-15:30 

Synergy of National Activities in Creation of Language Resources for Multilingual Europe

Presentations from the CEF Member States:

Tamás Váradi, Head of Language Technology Unit, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Video Presentation
Daiva Vaišnienė, Head of The State Commission of Lithuanian Language, Lithuania Video Presentation
Kadri Vider, Head of the Estonian Language Resources Center at the University of Tartu, Estonia Video Presentation
António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Video Presentation

15:30-16:00  

Coffee Break

16:00-16:50

Setting the Scene: The European Language Resource Coordination Action

Presentation from ELRC:

Josef van Genabith, DFKI, Germany Video Presentation
Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France Video Presentation
Andrejs Vasiļjevs, CEO, Tilde
Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Greece

16:50-17:50 

Maximising (Re)Usability of Language Resources

On Linked Open Data
Asunción Gómez-Pérez, LIDER, Spain Video Presentation

On LR Standardization
Dave Lewis, Trinity College Dublin Video Presentation

Language Resources and Open Data Policy and the PSI Directive
Aleksandra Wesolowska, DG Connect Video Presentation

Legal Aspects in Producing and Sharing Language Resources
Prodromos Tsiavos, London School of Economics Video Presentation

17:50-18:00

Conclusion and Wrap-up

Josef van Genabith, DFKI, Germany
Andrejs Vasiļjevs, CEO, Tilde

CEF - Towards a Connected Multilingual Europe