Welcome! Please register in advance via the ELRC website.
*in collaboration with the Finnish Language Cluster Kites http://www.kites.fi
09:00 – 10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome and introduction
Krister Lindén, ELRC Technology National Anchor Point in Finland, FIN-CLARIN, University of Helsinki
Taru Virtanen, ELRC Public Services National Anchor Point in Finland, Prime Minister’s Office
Mikael Reiman, European Commission Representation in Finland
Session 1. Connecting a multilingual Europe: European context and local needs
10:10 – 10:25 The European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC)
Aivars Bērziņš, European Language Resource Coordination, Tilde
10:25 – 11:30 Multilingual Finland
Challenges in multilingualism
Christoffer Forssell, The Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE
Carola Grönholm, Kela
Government language and translation guidelines
Taru Virtanen, Prime Minister’s Office; ELRC PS-NAP
Translation procurement in the public sector, Hansel as a case study
Anni Airaksinen, Hansel
11:30 – 12:00 Panel session: How MT can help, an outlook into current and future challenges
Moderator: Mikael Reiman, European Commission Representation in Finland
Panelists: Christoffer Forssell/YLE, Simo Kankkunen/Prime Minister’s Office and Jörg Tiedemann/University of Helsinki
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
Session 2. Engage: hands-on data
13:00 – 13:30 The CEF eTranslation platform @ work *
Erkka Vuorinen, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT)
13:30 – 14:00 eTranslation Termbank *
Simon Dahlberg, Language Council of Sweden (Språkrådet)
14:00 – 14:30 Governments, NGOs, MT and accessibility *
Mary Nurminen, University of Tampere and Maarit Koponen, University of Turku
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:30 Data sharing myths and challenges *
Jarkko Reittu, National Institute for Health and Welfare
15:30 – 16:00 Identifying and managing your data and how ELRC can assist and help *
Aivars Bērziņš, European Language Resource Coordination, Tilde
16:00 – 16:30 Questions and Answers/Open Discussion/Conclusion
Updated: October 23, 2018