W3C Workshop:
The Multilingual Web - Where Are We?26-27 October 2010, Madrid

W3C

sponsored by MultilingualWeb

Hosted by the
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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Program

Sessions will start with a 30 minute talk from a lead speaker, followed by several 15 minute speakers, who are currently listed alphabetically. The final order may change.


26 October
0900 Welcome
 
0930Kimmo Rossi
European Commission - DG INFSO E1
EC language programs and hopes for the future
 

Keynote

Reinhard Schäler
LRC, University of Limerick
The Multilingual Web, Policy Making and Access to Digital Knowledge for All
1000
 
  Break
1100

Developers

Richard Ishida
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
Latest developments at the W3C/IETF

1130

Axel Hecht
Mozilla
Localizing the web from the Mozilla perspective *

TBD
Opera
topic *

1200

Q&A
Lunch
1330

Creators

Roberto Belo Rovella
BBC World
Best practices and standards needed for BBC World *

 
1400

Paolo Baggia
Loquendo
Multilingual Aspects in Speech and Multimodal Interfaces

Luis Bellido
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Experiences in creating multilingual web sites

Pedro L. Díez
Linguaserve
topic *

Max Froumentin
World Wide Web Foundation
topic *
 
1430
 
1500

Q&A
 
1530  
1600

Localizers

Christian Lieske
SAP
ITS+XLIFF and other l10n standards *
 
1630

Josef van Genabith
Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)
Next Generation Localisation

Daniel Grasmick
affiliation *
topic *

Marko Grobelnick
SJI
topic *
 
1700
  Q&A
 
26 October
0900

Machines

Felix Sasaki
DFKI
Language resources, language technologies, text mining and the Semantic Web
 
0930

Gerhard Budin
affiliation *
i18n aspects of semantic Web *

Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani
CNR-ILC
Language Resources: a pillar of Language Technology

Thierry Declerck
DFKI
topic *
 
1000
 
  Break
1100

José Carlos González
TBD *
TBD *

Erhard Hinrichs
affiliation *
topic *

Wim Peters
CNR-ILC
Language Resources: a pillar of Language Technology

Piek Vossen
affiliation *
topic *
1130
1200 Q&A
Lunch
1330

Users

Ghassan Haddad
Facebook
topic *
1400

Yousef Elbes
World Health Organization
topic *

Denis Gikunda
Google
Google's community Translation in Sub Saharan Africa

Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo, Loïc Martínez Normand
Sidar Foundation
topic *

Swaran Lata
affiliation *
topic *

Jan Nelson
Microsoft
Bridging languages, cultures, and technology: How Microsoft is working to help unleash the unlimited potential for billions of people around the globe
1430
1500
Q&A
1530
  Break
1615 Discussion
1630
1700 Wrap up and close