Program
The program committee:
Professor Janne Bondi Johannessen, University of Oslo
Associate Professor Magne H. Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science
and Technology
Associate Professor Christer Johansson, University of Bergen
Senior Advisor Katarina Mühlenbock, Nordic Language Technology
Coordinator Kristin Bech, The HIT Centre
Advisor Torbjørg Breivik, The Norwegian Language Council
CEO Per Berge, Sail Port Northern Europe AS
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Thursday,
October 24th
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| 09:30 - 10:30: | Registration. |
| 10:30 - 10:45: | Welcome. |
| 10:45 - 11:15: | Presentation of the report on Norwegian language technology resources. Prof. Torbjørn Nordgård , Norwegian University of Science and Technology. |
| 11:15 - 11:40: | Political advisor Eirik Lae Solberg, the Ministry of Trade and Industry. |
| 11:45 - 12:45: | Lunch |
| 12:45 - 13:15: | KUNSTI - the Norwegian Research Council's language technology program. Director Bente Maegaard, Centre for language technology, Copenhagen. |
| 13:15 - 14:00: | Discussion. |
| 14:00 - 14:30: | Coffee break |
| 14:30 - 15:00: | "Do we need a Norwegian language bank?" CEO Per Arne Larsen, Edda Language Resources. |
| 15:00 - 15:45: | "European Language Resource Association: A European infrastructure for language resource distribution and HL technology evaluation." Chief Executive Khalid Choukri. |
| 15:45 - 16:15: | Coffee break |
| 16:15 - 17:00: | "Corpus of Spoken Dutch / The Dutch HLT Platform." Prof. Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp. |
| 17:00 - 17:15: | Time for questions. |
| 17:15 - 19:15: | Time to look at the displays and poster presentations. |
| 19:15 - 19:30: | Welcoming glass |
| 19:30 - 20:00: | Mini-concert |
| 20:00: | Conference dinner |
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Friday,
October 25th
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| 09:00 - 09:30: | "Språkbanken - Bank of Swedish." Dr. Lars Borin, University of Uppsala. |
| 09:30 - 09:55: | Nordic Language Technology Holding AS, Voss. Tore Burheim. |
| 09:55 - 10:20: | "The Oslo Multilingual Corpus: Models, Methods, Uses." Prof. Stig Johansson, University of Oslo. |
| 10:20 - 10:45: | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:10: | "Speech techology - what, why and how?" Dr. Erik Harborg, the Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. |
| 11:10 - 11:35: | "The use of corpora in translation." Language consultant Marianne Bakke, Berlitz GlobalNET / Bowne. |
| 11:35 - 12:00: | "From parallel corpus to word net". Prof. Helge Dyvik, University of Bergen. |
| 12:00 - 13:00: | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 13:45: | "Impossibilities Creatively Combined: Scientific Progress by Novel Modes of Collaboration." Prof. Hans Uszkoreit, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken. |
| 13:45 - 14:30: | "Learning Text Mining." Prof. Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp. |
| 14:30 - 15:15: | "VISL: Language technology for corpus research and grammar teaching." Dr. Eckhard Bick, University of Southern Denmark, Odense |
| 15:15 - 15:45: | Coffee break |
| 15:45 - 16:45: | Short presentations of KUNSTI projects: KB-N, Prof. Magnar Brekke, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. LOGON, Prof. Jan Tore Lønning, University of Oslo. BRAGE, Associate Prof. Magne Hallstein Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. |
| 16:45 - 17:00: | Conclusion |
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