Program of Translingual Europe 2009
| Wednesday, May 13th 12:00-18:00 | |
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| 12:00 | Registration |
| 12:30-14:00 | Buffet Lunch |
| 14:00-14:15 | Opening Addresses Ivan Wilhelm, "Plenipotentiary of the Government of Czech Republic for EU Research Programmes" and Former Rector of Charles University |
| 14:15-14:45 | Keynote: Information Technologie for the European Multilingual Information Society Horst Förster, Director, European Commission |
| 14:45-15:15 | Machine Translation Research at Google Inc. — Franz Och, Google Inc. |
| 15:15-15:45 | MT Research in Japan — Hitoshi Isahara, NICT (slides) |
| 15:45-16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15-16:35 | Progress in Statistical MT and International Evaluation — Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh (video, slides) |
| 16:35-16:55 | Tree-Based MT — Jan Hajič, Charles University Prague (video, slides PPT) |
| 16:55-17:15 | Hybrid Machine Translation — Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI and Saarland University (video, slides) |
| 17:15-18:15 | Panel Discussion: Will there Be a Winner? Competition of the MT Paradigms
Moderator Martin Kay (Stanford University) Panelists: Jaime Carbonell (CMU; slides PPT), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software; slides PPT, slides PDF), Philipp Koehn (U. Edinburgh), Franz Och (Google Inc.), Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI; slides) |
| Thursday, May 14th 9:00-13:00 | |
| 09:00-09:30 | New Paradigms for Machine Translation — Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University (slides PPT) |
| 09:30-09:50 | MT in a Large Corporation — Joerg Porsiel, Volkswagen AG (details) |
| 09:50-10:10 | MT Needs of Translation Enterprises — David Matuška, CEET, Prague (cancelled) |
| 10:10-10:30 | MT Needs of the EC Translation Services — Josep Bonet-Heras EC DGT (video, slides) |
| 10:30-11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:20 | The Challenge of Patent Translation and the Strategy at EPO — Georg Artelsmair, European Patent Office (video, slides) |
| 11:20-11:40 | Controlled Language for MT in Action — Johann Roturier, Symantec Ireland (slides PPTX) |
| 11:40-12:00 | Demands and Potentials of European LT Enterprises— Gudrun Magnusdottir (video, slides PPTX) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Will There Be Winners? Panel on European Needs, Priorities and Strategies
Moderator Mike Davis Panelists: Kimmo Rossi (EC), Monika Pereña (Generalitat de Catalunya; slides PPT), Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic), Gregor Thurmair (Linguatec; slides) |
| 13:00-14:30 | Buffet Lunch |
