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Program
Sessions will start with a 30 minute talk from a lead speaker, followed by a panel of 15 minute speakers. The panel speakers are currently listed alphabetically. The final order may be different.
There will be a cocktail reception on the evening of the 26 October.
| 26 October |
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| 0915 |
Welcome
Vice Chancellor for Research, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
Director, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT- UPM) |
| 0935 |
Kimmo Rossi
European Commission - DG INFSO E1
EC language programs and hopes for the future
|
| 0955 | Keynote
Reinhard Schäler
LRC, University of Limerick
The Multilingual Web, Policy Making and Access to Digital Knowledge for All |
| 1045 |
Break |
| 1115 |
Developers
Richard Ishida
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
The Multilingual Web: Latest developments at the W3C/IETF |
| 1145 |
Axel Hecht
Mozilla
Localizing the web from the Mozilla perspective
Charles McCathieNevile
Opera
The Web everywhere, multilingualism at Opera
Jan Nelson, Peter Constable
Microsoft
Bridging languages, cultures, and technology
|
| 1230 |
Q&A |
| 1300 |
Lunch |
| 1400 |
Creators
Roberto Belo Rovella, David Vella
BBC World Service
Challenges for a multilingual news provider: pursuing best practices and standards for BBC World Service |
| 1430 |
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 Orzas, Giuseppe Deriard, Pablo Badía Mas
Linguaserve
Key Aspects of Multilingual Web Content Life Cycles: Present and Future
Max Froumentin
World Wide Web Foundation
The Remaining Five Billion: Why is Most of The World's Population Not Online and What Mobile Phones Can Do About It |
| 1530 |
Q&A |
| 1600 |
Break |
| 1630 |
Localizers
Christian Lieske
SAP
Best Practices and Standards for Improving Globalization-related Processes |
| 1700 |
Josef van Genabith
Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)
Next Generation Localisation
Daniel Grasmick
Lucy Software
Applying Standards - Benefits and Drawbacks
Marko Grobelnik
Institut Jozef Stefan
Cross-lingual document similarity for Wikipedia languages |
| 1745 |
Q&A |
| 1815 |
End |
| 1830 |
Cocktail reception
Sala de Profesores C-101, Edificio C |
|
27 October |
| 0930 |
Machines
Felix Sasaki
DFKI
Language resources, language technologies, text mining, the Semantic Web: How interoperability of machines can help humans in the multilingual web
|
| 1000 |
Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani
CNR-ILC
Language Resources: a pillar of Language Technology
Thierry Declerck
DFKI
lemon: An Ontology-Lexicon model for the Multilingual Semantic Web
José Carlos González
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / DAEDALUS
Turning multilingual resources into applications: a market perspective
|
| 1100 |
Break |
| 1130 |
Erhard Hinrichs
Tubingen University
Multilingual Web Services
Jörg Schutz
bioloom group
Semantic Technologies in Multilingual Business Intelligence
Piek Vossen
VU University Amsterdam
KYOTO: a platform for anchoring textual meaning across languages
|
| 1215 |
Q&A |
| 1300 |
Lunch |
| 1400 |
Users
Ghassan Haddad
Facebook
Facebook Translation Technology and the Social Web
|
| 1430 |
Denis Gikunda
Google
Google's community Translation in Sub Saharan Africa
Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo, Loïc Martínez Normand
Sidar Foundation
Localization and web accessibility
Swaran Lata
Department of Information Technology, Government of India
Challenges for Multilingual Web in India : Technology development and Standardization perspective
|
| 1515 |
Q&A |
| 1600 |
Break |
| 1630 |
Mark Davis
Google / Unicode Consortium
Software for the world: Latest developments in Unicode and CLDR (videocast)
|
| 1650 |
Discussion |
| 1720 |
Wrap up and close |
| 1730 |
End |
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