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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? |
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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 |
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