18th EFNIL Conference, Cavtat
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Programme The Role of National Language Institutions in the Digital Age
Wednesday 6 October 14.00 – 16.00 Arrival of delegation members – registration – coffee/tea and lunch 16.00 – 17.30 General Assembly for EFNIL members (Part 1) Social Program 18.00 – 19.00 Organized Cavtat sightseeing 19.30 Welcome reception – Hotel Croatia, Cavtat Thursday 7 October Conference room Bobara, Hotel Croatia, Cavtat
09.00-09.30 Registration 09.30 – 10.40 Opening session 09.30 – 10.10 Welcome address by Željko Jozić, Director of the Institute of the Croatian Language and Linguistics, Local organizer Nina Obuljen Koržinek, Minister of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia Radovan Fuchs, Minister of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia Filip Majcen, Director, DG Interpretation Johan Van Hoorde, President of EFNIL: introduction to the conference 10.10 – 10.40 Philippe Gelin: A Language Data Space for Europe: from vision to implementation. (slides)
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.50 Thematic session 1: Language Resources and technologies 11.00 – 11.35 Marko Tadić: Current pan-European Language Technologies initiatives: an opportunity for low-resourced languages (slides)
11.35 – 11.50 Frieda Steurs: The Dutch language: research and policy in the digital age (slides)
11.50 – 12.05 Rickard Domeij: National infrastructure for the languages of Sweden – past, present and future (slides) 12.05 – 12.20 Dr. Anželika Gaidienė: Lithuanian Language Technology Landscape: from documents till language technologies (slides) 12:20 – 12:35 Kozma Ahačič: Toward a comprehensive service for Slovenian language users: the Fran and Franček web portals and language-counselling service (slides) 12.35 – 12.50 General discussion Moderation: Tamás Váradi, Ludwig Eichinger 12.50 – 13.45 Lunch break 13.45 – 15.30 Thematic session 2: The political role of national language institutions 13.45 – 14.20 Prof. Trond Trosterud: Normative language work in the age of machine learning (slides) 14.20 – 14.35 Prof. Neasa Ní Chiaráin: Digital Plan for Irish (slides) 14.35 – 14.50 Isabella Tamba: The role of the Institutes of the Romanian Academy in the digitisation process of the linguistic research (slides) 14.50 – 15.05 Prof. Marek Łaziński, Polish language resources and their role in the description of the language change and establishing the new norm (slides) 15.05 – 15.30 General discussion Moderation: Júlia Choleva, Ase Wetas 15.30 – 15.55 Coffee break 15.55 – 17.30 Thematic session 3: Language research and language planning in relation to research and industrial development 15.55 – 16.40 Hans Uszkoreit, Feiyu Xu: Demand for NLP Applications in the Enterprise World with special attention to linguistic diversity and to latest developments such as the impact of very large language models (slides) (first half) (second half) 16.40 – 16.55 Andreas Witt: The Future is now. The Digital Transformation in the German Linguistics Community and the Key Role of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (slides) 16.55 – 17.10 Moritz Sommet: The digital language research landscape in multilingual Switzerland (slides) 17.10 – 17.30 General discussion Moderation: Sabine Kirchmeier, Johan Van Hoorde
Social Program
18.00 – 19.00 Cavtat – Dubrovnik boat ride 19.00 – 20.00 Dubrovnik sightseeing 20.00 – 20.40 Visit to a 16th-century Sponza Palace: Address by Mato Franković, Mayor of Dubrovnik Address by Johan Van Hoorde, President of EFNIL Classical music concert: Dubrovnik String Quartet 20.45 Conference dinner at Gradska kavana Arsenal Restaurant in Dubrovnik (https://www.nautikarestaurants.com/gradska-kavana-arsenal/)
Friday 8 October 09.00 – 10.45 European Language Equality 09.00 – 09.30 Andy Way: The European Language Equality Project (slides) 09.30 – 10.00 Per Langgård: How to struggle for a digital future - the case of Greenlandic (slides) 10.00 – 10.45 Panel discussion Marko Tadic, Philippe Gelin, Hans Uszkoreit, Rickard Domeij, Feiyu Xu, Sabine Kirchmeier, Frieda Steurs Moderation: Kristina Despot, Zeljko Jozic Announcement of Forum "Innovation, Technologies and Plurilingualism", organised by the French presidency of the EU, Ms. C.-L. Chambron, DGLFLF 10.55 – 11.20 Coffee/tea break 11.20 – 13.00 Master Thesis Award winners 11.20 – 11.30 Sabine Kirchmeier: Introduction of the MTA 11.30 – 11.55 Agnes Kim: Language and Society in Change. A Historical-Sociolinguistic Investigation Using the Example of the Marchfeld (Lower Austria) in the Early 20th Century (slides) 11.55 – 12.20 Pia Nilsson: Language in the Museum. An investigation of the views held by the public and by language experts on a Swedish language museum (slides) 12.20 – 12.45 Anne-Mieke Thieme: Multilingual The Hague: Municipal language policy, politics, and practice (slides) 12.45 – 12.55 Sabine Kirchmeier: Delivering the certificates Moderation: Sabine Kirchmeier, Ase Wetas
12.55 – 13.40 General Assembly for EFNIL members (Part 2 Election of a new Executive Committee) followed by coffee/tea and lunch.
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