Welcome to the META-NET Translation And Localization Vision Group Meeting 2010
News
March, 29, 2011: Program and Venue info posted.
March, 23, 2011: Website created.
About META-NET
META-NET is a Network of Excellence dedicated to building the technological foundations of a multilingual European information society.
About META-NET Vision Groups
The Vision Groups are a central instrument within META-NET. Vision Groups meet twice a year to generate domain-specific visions and roadmaps in the form of technology forecasts. This includes ideas for innovative applications of language technology and scenarios for the future knowledge society. The visions produced will be gathered by the META-NET Technology Council which will consolidate them into a Strategic Research Agenda. The agenda will contain high level recommendations and suggestions for joint actions to be presented to the EC and national as well as regional bodies.
As META-NET strives to bring Europe's language technology industry not only scientifically, but also economically into a leading position, the Vision Groups are primarily composed of distinguished stakeholders from industry and business, supplemented by leading researchers from the respective fields.
The Vision Groups bring together the different Language Technology communities and the industries. At the same time, the produced visions will be used to convey META's message to policy makers, private and public sponsors and the general public.
The groups were assembled in an effort to cluster the relevant and most promising European Language Technology-related industry sectors into reasonably sized working groups.
This next meeting is the most important one as this is the last opportunity to extend and modify our visions and key umbrella topic for the SRA. Our final contributions will be presented to the META Technology Council on May 25. Afterwards, the SRA will be finalised and presented at the next META-FORUM, which will take place on June 27-29 in Budapest. As you know, the goal of META is to influence the European Union's Framework Programme 8 (FP8), which is already in the process of being shaped, albeit at a very general level.
