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DAY 1 |
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8:30 |
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10:00 |
Opening Ceremony |
Welcome Address & Programme Introduction Invited speakers - tba | |
10:30 |
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11:15 |
Exhibition visit and press conference | |
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Parallel sessions |
Speech Technologies and Applications |
Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web |
Multilinguality | |
11:45 |
Vincent Fontaine Babel Technologies Belgium Reaching new horizons with innovative speech technologies |
Atanas Kiryakov OntoText-Sirma Bulgaria Semantic Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval |
Bernard Normier Lingway France A Multilingual Application for Intellectual Property Management | |
12:15 |
Melvyn Hunt Novauris United-Kingdom Automatic Identification of Spoken Names and Addresses |
Bernt A. Bremdal and Robert Engels CognIT Norway Semantic Annotation and Markup of Information, a Business Case on Web Based Technology |
Lennart Waje Xplanation Belgium Advantages of a web-based client/server translation solution | |
12:45 |
Simona Fina SVOX Switzerland Multilingual and Mixed-lingual TTS Applications |
Paul Buitelaar and Wolfgang Giere Frankfurt Hospital/DFKI Germany MuchMore: Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval in the Medical Domain |
Atro Voutilainen Connexor Finland Managing Multilinguality in embeddable Language Processing | | |
13:15 |
Exhibition visit and Lunch | |
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Parallel sessions |
Speech Technologies and Applications |
Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web |
Multilinguality | |
14:45 |
Francis Charpentier Telisma France How can Speech Recognition R&D help the ASR Industry to deliver best Services and Applications? |
Maarten Laga Language and Computing Belgium Integration of NLP Technology into Knowledge Management can save Peoples Lives |
Dimitrios Sabatakakis Systran France MT Solutions for Today?s Business Needs | |
15:15 |
Marc Seligman Spoken Translation USA Spoken Language Translation: Interactivity as the Key to Real-World Development |
Antonio S. Valderrábanos Bitext - The Bit and Text Company Spain A new KM Paradigm based on the Neolithic Experience: from foraging Knowledge to farming Knowledge |
Gregor Thurmair Linguatec Germany Frontends for Content Analysis | |
15:45 |
Jordan Cohen Voice Signal Technologies USA Putting Speech Technology in the Customer's Hand |
Elisabeth Maier Canoo Engineering Switzerland Integrating Linguistic Products into Corporate Applications |
Lou Cremers Océ The Netherlands An Automatic Localisation Workflow Integrating Language Technologies | |
16:15 |
Franciska De Jong Twente University The Netherlands Spoken Document Retrieval |
Hans Uszkoreit DFKI Germany Language Technology for Associative Memories and the Semantic Web |
Johannes Heinecke joint presentation with Alain Léger, Aarno Lehtola and Catherine Bounsaythip France Telecom/VTT France/Finland Multilinguality in eCommerce Knowledge-Based Mediation System | | |
16:45 |
Exhibition visit and Coffee | |
17:15 |
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18:30 |
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DAY 2 |
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8:30 |
Opening Exhibition visit and coffee | |
10:00 |
Keynote |
Sanda Harabagiu Language Computer Corporation and Texas University USA Empowering Today's Customers with New Tools for Information Seeking | |
10:45 |
Panel 1: Changing industry needs, new technology suppliers |
Carlo Aliprandi - Synthema - Italy Andrew Bredenkamp - Acrolinx - Germany Bernhard Steimel - MIND - Business Consultant - Germany Jaap van der Meer - Crosslanguage - Belgium Nick Wright - LINK - United-Kingdom | |
11:45 |
Panel 2: Speech and language technology markets: is the picture getting clearer? |
Rose Lockwood - Bowne Global Solutions - United-Kingdom Martine Dejean - Bureau Van Dijk - France Peter Ryan - Datamonitor - United-Kingdom Donna Parish - Multilingual Computing & Technology - USA | |
12:45 |
Exhibition visit and lunch | |
14:15 |
Panel 3: Support of Language Technologies through National and European Programmes |
Hans Uszkoreit - DFKI - Germany Giovanni Varile - European Commission - Luxemburg Joseph Mariani - Ministry of Research and New Technologies - France Bernd Reuse - Bundesministerium für Bilding und Forschung - Germany | |
15:15 |
Exhibition visit and coffee | |
16:00 |
Panel 4: Future directions In Memory of Antonio Zampolli |
David Nahamoo - IBM T. J. Watson Rsearch Center - USA Roger Moore - 20/20 Speech Ltd - United-Kingdom Alex Waibel - Carnegie Mellon University, Interactive Systems Lab - USA Steven Krauwer - ELSNET/Utrecht University - Netherlands | |
17:00 |
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17:15 |
Closing ceremony |
Speakers tba | |
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