Call for participation: META Forum 2013

Connecting Europe for New Horizons September 19/20, 2013 http://www.meta-forum.eu *** Register now! *** Venue: German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology — Berlin, Germany META-FORUM 2013 — Connecting Europe for New Horizons is an international conference on powerful language technologies for the multilingual information society, the data value chain and the information market place. The two special themes of this year's edition of the conference are Big Data Text Analytics and Multilingual Web Services for Multilingual Europe. Previous editions of the conference series are META-FORUM 2012 (Brussels), META-FORUM 2011 (Budapest) and META-FORUM 2010 (Brussels). Call for active participation in META Exhibition and LT Industry Session now open! Highlights: • Horizon 2020 and Connecting Europe Facility (CEF): Current State of Play • Sessions on Technologies for the Multilingual Web; MT for Professionals; Services for Multilingual Europe; The Most Urgent Needs of Europe's Languages; Connecting Towards New Horizons; Quality Translation and Innovation • New Stakeholders: GALA (Globalization and Localization Association), NPLD (Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity), Council of Europe Committee of Experts on the Charter of Regional and Minority Languages • Towards a European Language Technology Platform • An Update of the META-NET White Paper Series • Invited keynote lectures by Daniel Marcu (SDL) and Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI) • Panel discussions • Award Ceremony: META Prize and META Seal of Recognition • META Exhibition (industry and research exhibition – software demos and posters) META-FORUM 2013 will be held jointly by META-NET and the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, co-organised with MultilingualWeb-LT, QTLaunchPad and LT Berlin.