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Outline Programme
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Papers for the parallel sessions on speech, multilinguality and knowledge management are by invitation only. The deadline for company presentations for the for language technology SMEs is now passed.
The Programme for Day 2 starts here.
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Day 1: Thursday 26 September
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8:00
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Opening of registration
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9:30
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Welcome Address: Peter Dortans, Managing Director, VDI/VDE-IT
Opening: Dr. Uwe Thomas, State Secretary
of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Programme Introduction: Professor Hans Uszkoreit, Programme Chair
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10:00
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Keynote address by
Bill Dolan, Head of Natural Language Processing Unit, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Language Technology in Consumer Software
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10:45
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Press Conference with Speaker Q & A and Introduction of LangTech Exhibition
Exhibition Visit & Coffee
LangTech 2002 Press Release [Word, 32 KB]
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11:30
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Parallel Sessions
Session Chairs
Voice: Joseph Mariani, Director, Information and Communication Technologies Department, French Ministry of Research
Multilinguality: Bente Maegaard, Director, Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark
Knowledge: Pierre Isabelle, Head of NLP Lab, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
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Voice
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Multilinguality
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Knowledge Management
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11:30
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Peter Hauser, ScanSoft, US
A Natural Man Machine Interface and Stability - for Successful Voice-Enabled Applications
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Daniel Grasmick, SAP, DE
Implementing Computer Aided Translation Tools ... or herding CATs?
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Bernd Kreissig, Duden/Bifab, DE
?DUDEN.DLL? - The Incarnation of the Dictionary in the Digital Age
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12:00
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Francis Charpentier, Telisma, FR
The Contribution of Speech Technologies to the Next Generations of Telecom Services
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G?bor Pr?sz?ky, Morphologics, HU
A Keyword to the 21th Century: Human Comprehension Assistance
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Charles Huot, Temis, FR
Text Intelligence ? in your daily business
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12:30
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Bernhard M. Haberl, Nuance, Europe, Middle East & Africa
The Importance of an Enterprise-wide Speech Strategy
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Gudrun Magnusdottir, Esteam, GR
Large Scale Translation Memory and Machine Translation Systems
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Geert Kobus, Knowledge Concepts, NL
Intranet Search in a Cross-lingual Environment
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13:00
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Exhibition Visit & Lunch
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14:30
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Parallel Sessions
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Voice
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Multilinguality
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Knowledge Management
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14:30
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Roberto Billi, Loquendo, IT
Building Successful Speech-enabled Services
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Annelise Bech, Lingtech A/S, DK
Keeping up! Enhancing the PaTrans MT-system to future needs
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Pasi Tapanainen, Connexor, FI
Understanding Language
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15:00
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Jeremy Peckham, SRC Ltd., UK
Can Automation be an Improvement on Human Agents?
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Jun-Ichi Tsujii, Tokyo Univ, JP
Machine Translation and Multilingual systems in Japan and Asia
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Luca Dini, CELI, IT
Language-based Web Discovery
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15:30
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Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler Chrysler, DE
In-vehicle Spoken Dialog: Safety and functionality
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Dimitris Sabatakakis, Systran, FR
MT in High Demand: Real-World MT Business Solutions by SYSTRAN
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Donia Scott, U. Brighton, UK
Knowledge Management in a Multilingual Environment
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16:00
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Christel M?ller, Telekom, DE
Voice-controlled Personal Assistant with Emotional Aspects
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Matthias Heyn, Trados, BE
The Value of Language Technologies in Companies
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Fabio Pianesi, IRST, IT
Past, Present and Future of Information Extraction for Knowledge Management
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16:30
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Exhibition Visit & Coffee
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17:00
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SME ?elevator pitch? presentations
Introductory Presentation: Peter Dortans, VDI/VDE-IT
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18:00
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Exhibition
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19:00
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Reception sponsored by Investitions Bank Berlin
The Investitionsbank Berlin warmly welcomes all LangTech participants
to an evening reception starting at 7.00 p.m. in their premises at
Bundesalle 210, 10719 Berlin.
The Investitionsbank is within walking distance of the conference venue.
A dinner buffet will be served at the reception.
Paul Hector will briefly speak on UNESCO?s work in the area of languages.
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Day 2: Friday 27 September
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9:00
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Coffee
Opening: Giovanni Varile, Head of Unit, Intelligent Interfaces & Surfaces, Information Society Directorate General, European Commission
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9:30
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Keynote address by
Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI GmbH, Germany
"Language Technologies for the Mobile Internet Era"
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10:15
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Panel Discussion on Industrial Needs and Outlook
Session Chair: Andrew Joscelyne
Participants
Roberto Cencioni, Head of Unit, Knowledge Technologies & Content Development Tools, Information Society Directorate General, European Commission
Daniel Grasmick, SAP
Jonathan Sage, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Ren?e Sztabelski, Globalization And Localization Association
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11:00
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Market Session
Session Chair: Andrew Joscelyne
Rose Lockwood and Steve McClure
"The Elusive Markets for Natural Language Technology"
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11:40
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Venture Capital Session
An overview by venture capital specialists, success stories and analysis of market opportunities in language technologies
Moderator: Roger Bendisch
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Overview Presentation: Marcus Jochim
"A VC Perspective on Closing Deals with Companies in the Voice Sector"
Panel discussion moderated by Roger Bendisch with Marcus Jochim, Dr. Bernd Geiger, and Luk Schoonbaert.
"The Role of Venture Capital for Language Technology Companies"
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13:00
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Exhibition Visit & Lunch
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14:30
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SME ?elevator pitch? presentations
Presentation: Dr. Torsten Mehlhorn, Investitionsbank Berlin
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Multitreux, Singapore
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, Egypt
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, Bulgaria
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15:35
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Coffee
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16:05
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Future directions for R&D with examples of tomorrow's applications
Session Chair & Presenter: Reinhard Karger, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Jackson Bond, 8hertz technologies
Mobile Information Management
Dr. Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
The Xerox Intelligent Copier
Dr. Klaus Netter, XtraMind
Infrastructures for Optimized Communication and Information Management
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16:50
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Awards ceremony for the LangTech 2002 Prize
Presented by Investitionsbank Berlin
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17:00
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Close
Closing address: Bente Maegaard, EUROMAP Co-ordinator
Announcing LangTech 2003: Joseph Mariani, Director, Information and Communication Technologies Department, French Ministry of Research
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