Organizers:
The European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) consortium
Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki
Language Technology is shaping our multilingual future. It has already been transforming the way we interact with our devices and with each other, the way we shop, work and travel. More and more it reshapes our interaction with service providers, either public or private. Programs that automatically correct spelling errors and aid sophisticated writing, digital assistants that transform our voices to text messages on mobile phones, bots that answer our calls to the bank or to our social security organisation, systems that automatically translate from a foreign language, and much more, are already empowering our everyday lives, our businesses and our administrations. But can we fully use our own language in our digital interactions? Is our language adequately supported and ready to keep pace with the technological advancements of the AI era?
The third Finnish European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) workshop will address these questions and it will seek to engage participants in a fruitful discussion on the status and prospects of Language Technology for Finnish. Developers, integrators and users of Language Technology, both from the private and public sector will share experiences, requirements and ways for transforming digital interaction in our multilingual Europe with Language Technologies. Finally, we will discuss how language data, i.e. texts and speech, can fuel development in Artificial Intelligence.
This workshop continues the series of previous ELRC workshops that were organized in Finland on 19.2.2016 and 24.10.2018.
This ELRC workshop is organized in collaboration with the European Language Grid (ELG). The 4th Regional ELG Workshop will take place in the afternoon, starting at 14:00. For details, see the ELG workshop page. Welcome to register and attend both events!
The ELRC workshop is a free event, but registration is required. You can use the same form to register to both the ELRC workshop (morning sessions) and the ELG workshop (afternoon sessions).
Please register via the ELRC website by 10th December. Welcome!
| 09:30 – 09:40 | Welcome and introduction (video, pdf) |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | The potential of Language Technology and AI – where we are, where we should be heading (video, pdf) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Language Technologies for the Languages of Finland – Panel session (video, pdf) |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | The CEF AT Platform (video, pdf) |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Language technologies by/for the public sector – Panel session (video, pdf) |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Language data creation, management and sharing: existing practices and challenges – Panel session (video) |
12:15 – 12:30 | The EU Council Presidency Translator – Finnish presidency success story and what’s beyond (video, pdf) |
12:30 – 12:40 | Conclusions (video, pdf) |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | Break |
| 14:00 – 16:30 | European Language Grid (ELG): Introduction and overview. The ELG workshop is organized in collaboration with the European Language Grid (ELG) and it will take place in the same online meeting room as the ELRC workshop. Please note that the ELG workshop will be held in English only. Welcome to register and participate in both events! The detailed program for the ELG workshop is updated at https://www.kielipankki.fi/elg-workshop-2020/. |
Please register via the ELRC website by 10th December. Welcome!
Mietta Lennes and Tommi Jauhiainen
University of Helsinki / FIN-CLARIN
fin-clarin [ATT] helsinki.fi
Last updated: December 8, 2020