European Language Equality

The second annual ELE Conference

Digital Language Equality for a Multilingual Europe

27 June 2023
Brussels, Belgium

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Programme

8:30	Doors open – Registration

Session 1: Opening – European Language Equality
9:00	Welcome – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) – Slides – Video
9:15	Keynote – Jordi Solé (Member of the European Parliament) – Video
9:30	ELE: General Overview and Book Presentation – Andy Way and Georg Rehm (Dublin City University, Ireland; DFKI, Germany) – Slides – Video
9:45	New Features in the Digital Language Equality Dashboard and an Update of the Cross-language Comparison – Maria Giagkou (ILSP, R.C. “Athena”, Greece) – Slides – Video
10:00	ELE Strategic Research, Innovation and Implementation Agenda – Revisited – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) – Slides – Video

10:15	Coffee Break

Session 2: The Role of National and Regional Language Institutes for Digital Language Equality – Chair: Sabine Kirchmeier (European Federation of National Institutions for Language, Denmark)
10:45	Panel discussion – Slides – Video
	Frieda Steurs (Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal, Netherlands)
	Kristine Eide (Norwegian Language Council, Norway)
	Svetla Koeva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
	Rickard Domeij (Language Council of Sweden, Sweden)
	Davyth Hicks (European Language Equality Network)
11:30	Discussion – Video

Session 3: ELE – The Pilot Projects and their results
11:45	Pilot Projects: Overview – Jana Hamrlova (Charles University, Czech Republic) – Slides – Video
	NGT-Dutch Hotel Review Corpus – Mirella De Sisto (Tilburg University, Netherlands) – Slides – Video
	European LT Domains 2023 – Diego Alves (University of Zagreb, Croatia) – Slides – Video
	Computing Facilities for LT – Gaurish Thakkar (University of Zagreb, Croatia) – Slides – Video
	A BLARK for Minority Languages in the Era of Deep Learning: Expertise from Academia and Industry – Sofía García (imaxin\|software, Spain) – Slides – Video
	Building E2E Spoken-language Understanding Systems for Virtual Assistants in Low-resources Scenarios – Andrés Piñeiro (Balidea, Spain) – Slides – Video
	Multilingual and Mixed Language Data for Inclusive Speech Technology – A. Seza Doğruöz (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) – Slides – Video
	Generation of a Large Speech Corpus for Spain Languages using Data Augmentation – José Miguel Herrera (Pangeanic, Spain) – Slides – Video
	Artificial Intelligence Data Kit 2030 – Svetla Koeva (Institut for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin, Bulgaria) – Slides – Video

12:30	Lunch Break + Project Expo

Session 4: European Large Language Models – Chair: Andy Way (Dublin City University, Ireland)
13:30	Industrial Language Model Research for a Multilingual Europe – Jussi Karlgren (SILO AI, Sweden)
13:45	Developing Multilingual LLMs – Pedro Ortiz (DFKI, Germany) – Slides – Video
14:00	High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT) – Barry Haddow (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) – Slides – Video
14:15	European Web Crawls and LLMs: the OpenWebSearch Project – Michael Granitzer (University of Passau, Germany) – Slides – Video
14:30	Q&A and Discussion – Video

14:45	Coffee Break

Session 5: National Language Technology and AI Programmes in Europe – Chair: German Rigau (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
15:15	Language-centric AI in Europe 2023 – German Rigau (University of the Basque Country, Spain) – Slides – Video
15:20	National AI Programme: Spain (PERTE) – Cristina Gallach (Alliance for the New Economy of Language, Spain) – Video
15:32	National AI Programme: France – Lucie Gianola (Ministry of Culture, France) – Slides – Video
15:44	National AI Programme: Sweden – Magnus Sahlgren (AI Sweden, Sweden) – Slides – Video
15:56	National AI Programme: Denmark – Carl Frederik Bach Kirchmeier (Agency for Digital Government, Denmark) – Slides – Video
16:08	Q&A and Discussion – Video

16:30	Short Break

Session 6: ELE – LDS – EDIC: How are they related and how do they play together?
16:35	Presentation of the Language Data Space (LDS) – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) – Slides – Video
16:45	Presentation of the Language EDIC (European Digital Infrastructure Consortium) – Thibault Grouas (General Delegation for the French Language and the Languages of France, France) – Slides – Video
17:00	The Future of Data Spaces: Beyond LDS & EDICs – Philippe Gelin (European Commission, DG CONNECT, Luxembourg) – Slides – Video

Closing Session
17:20	Recap, Outlook and Closing Remarks – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) – Slides – Video

17:30	End of META-FORUM

	Reception