Language equality in the digital age towards a Human Language Project

European Parliament Brussels - Paul Henri Spaak (PHS) 7C050

Programme

• 14:00     Welcome of the Chair - Algirdas SAUDARGAS, MEP (EPP, LT), ITRE & CULT Committee
• 14:10     Setting the stage: The potential of Human Language Technologies

Maite Melero, Senior Researcher, Group of Computational Linguistics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

• 14:20     Human Language Technologies in a multilingual Europe

Georg Rehm, General Secretary, Network of Excellence META-NET

• 14:40     Challenges and opportunities posed by Multilingualism in the Digital Single Market

Andrejs Vasiljevs, CEO, Tilde

• 15:00     Social implications of unbalanced level of technology support for European languages

Sabine Kirchmeier, Vice-President of the executive committee, European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL)

• 15:20     Challenges and benefits of using minority languages in public

István Horváth, President, Institute for Research on Minorities Issues, Cluj/ Kolozsvár,

• 15:40     Human Language Technologies and public policies

Hans Uszkoreit, Scientific Director, Language Technology Lab, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

• 16:00     Human Language Technologies: Potential impact on European economy and society

Panel moderated by Maite Melero, Senior Researcher, Group of Computational Linguistics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and with the participation of:
Jill EVANS, MEP (EFA, UK), CULT Committee, Csaba SÓGOR, MEP (EPP, RO), LIBE & EMPL Committee, Ádám KÓSA, MEP (EPP, HU), EMPL Committee, Marco MARSELLA, European Commission and all speakers. More...