For the fifth consecutive year, LT-Innovate, Europe's language technology industry association, is organising the LT Industry Summit on 17-18 May 2016 in Brussels. The LT Industry Summit is the yearly point of convergence between the language technology industry, its clients, research partners and policy makers.
This year's summit programme includes best practice presentations by language technology suppliers and users, presentations of new solutions and technologies, buyer presentations of needs in terms of language technologies and presentations of research output.
The full summit programme is now available on the conference website.
Speakers include Jochen Hummel, Steve Renals, Andrew Joscelyne, Gerhard Budin and Matthias Heyn, who will be speaking about infrastructures and language resources for a multilingual Europe: the Language Technology Industry Cloud, the Conversational Interaction Technology Innovation Alliance, the Language Resources Observatory, etc. Luc Meertens and Bram Vandewalle will be speaking about language technology and artificial intelligence. Frits Jacobs and Ambra Neri will be speaking about how to combine language technologies with structured content processes for medical devices.
This year's LT Industry Summit also features an LT CEO Summit session “What Executives Should Know About Language Technology” and a panel discussion on language policies and funding sources in Europe.
Other topics to be discussed at this year's summit include semantic content enrichment, industry needs for in-domain language resources, the usability of existing language resources and how to speed up the creation of new language resources, language resources for lesser used languages, machine-assisted multilingual curation, context-aware machine translation, etc.
The LT Industry Summit is organised by LT-Innovate. LT-Innovate wants to provide a forum in particular to the 500 small and medium-sized European players in a market which is dominated by non European players. Over the last few years, LT-Innovate has published a number of reports, surveys and position documents on the European language technology market, its status and its potential.
In 2014, the LT Industry Summit was nominated for a Language Industry Award (LIA) in the Best Learning and Networking Event in The Language Sector category.
www.lt-innovate.org