Ninth Language Technologies Conference

October 9 - 10, 2014

Information Society - IS 2014

Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana

PROCEEDINGS Invited Speakers Conference schedule Programme Committee Additional Information

The IS-LT'14 conference is the ninth in the series of Slovenian Language Technologies Conferences ('98, '00, '02, '04, '06, '08, '10, '12) with the official languages of the conference being both Slovene and English.

Invited speakers

Matej Ďurčo, Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology / Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Austrian Academy of Sciences
CLARIN-DARIAH.AT - Weaving the network
The talk gives an overview of recent developments in Austria regarding CLARIN and DARIAH, the two Digital Humanities research infrastructure consortia. Presented are the manifold related international engagements as well as a new wave of national activities and projects coming to life this year. Special attention will be directed towards semantic technologies, which are becoming the focal point of a very diverse range of research areas in the humanities, raising the question how can HLT support other disciplines coping with the "semantic turn".
Maciej Piasecki, Institute of Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology
User-driven Language Technology Infrastructure - the Case of CLARIN-PL
The talk discusses user-driven development in CLARIN-PL, the Polish branch of the European language technology infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. CLARIN-PL can be used as an exemplar of a bi-directional (i.e. top-down and bottom-up) approach to developing language tools and resources (LTRs). We will overview the state of the Polish basic processing chain, the set of Polish LTRs and typical processing schemes emerging from the development of key applications. We will also discuss the problem of the quality of services offered by language tools that goes much beyond the typical measures used during testing. In conclusion, we will envisage further user needs and LT development for which the 3-4 year construction phase is a good starting point for a fully-fledged infrastructure.
Maja Popović, Language Technology Lab, DFKI
Machine translation: approaches, applications and challenges
The talk will give an overview of the current state of machine translation (MT) taking into account both research and industrial points of view: differences and (dis)advantages of the three main approaches (rule-based, statistical and example based), pecularities of spoken language translation, as well as methods and difficulties considering evaluation of generated translations.

Programme Committee

Tomaž Erjavec (chair), Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
Jerneja Žganec Gros (chair), Alpineon Ltd (Slovenia)
Simon Dobrišek, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
Darja Fišer, Dept. of Translation, University of Ljubljana
Ivo Ipsić, Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka
Primož Jakopin, Institute for Slovene language, ZRC SAZU
Zdravko Kačič, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor
Simon Krek, Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, Jožef Stefan Institute
Cvetana Krstev, Arts Faculty, University of Belgrade
Nataša Logar, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
Birte Lönneker-Rodman, Across Systems GmbH
France Mihelič, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
Dunja Mladenić, Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, Jožef Stefan Institute
Nikola Ljubešić, Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences, University of Zagreb
Marko Stabej, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Tomaž Šef, Dept. for Intelligent Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute
Jan Šnajder, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
Darinka Verdonik, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor
Špela Vintar, Dept. of Translation, University of Ljubljana
Janez Žibert, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies University of Primorska

Organising Committee

Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute
Jerneja Žganec Gros, Alpineon

Information

Up to date information is available at http://nl.ijs.si/isjt14 or write to hlt-conf@ijs.si. Please note that all organisational matters (registration, accomodation, etc.) are handled by the meta-conference Information Society - IS 2014.

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