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| DAY 1 |  | 
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| 8:30 |  | 
| 10:00 | 
| Opening Ceremony |  
| Welcome Address & Programme Introduction Invited speakers - tba
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| 10:30 |  | 
| 11:15 | 
| Exhibition visit and press conference |  | 
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| Parallel sessions |  
| Speech Technologies and Applications | Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web | Multilinguality |  |  
| 11:45 | 
| Vincent Fontaine Babel Technologies
 Belgium
 Reaching new horizons with innovative speech technologies
 | Atanas Kiryakov OntoText-Sirma
 Bulgaria
 Semantic Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval
 | Bernard Normier Lingway
 France
 A Multilingual Application for Intellectual Property Management
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| 12:15 | 
| Melvyn Hunt Novauris
 United-Kingdom
 Automatic Identification of Spoken Names and Addresses
 | Bernt A. Bremdal and Robert Engels CognIT
 Norway
 Semantic Annotation and Markup of Information, a Business Case on Web Based Technology
 | Lennart Waje Xplanation
 Belgium
 Advantages of a web-based client/server translation solution
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| 12:45 | 
| Simona Fina SVOX
 Switzerland
 Multilingual and Mixed-lingual TTS Applications
 | Paul Buitelaar and Wolfgang Giere Frankfurt Hospital/DFKI
 Germany
 MuchMore: Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval in the Medical Domain
 | Atro Voutilainen Connexor
 Finland
 Managing Multilinguality in embeddable Language Processing
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| 13:15 | 
| Exhibition visit and Lunch |  | 
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| Parallel sessions |  
| Speech Technologies and Applications | Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web | Multilinguality |  |  
| 14:45 | 
| Francis Charpentier Telisma
 France
 How can Speech Recognition R&D help the ASR Industry to deliver best Services and Applications?
 | Maarten Laga Language and Computing
 Belgium
 Integration of NLP Technology into Knowledge Management can save Peoples Lives
 | Dimitrios Sabatakakis Systran
 France
 MT Solutions for Today?s Business Needs
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| 15:15 | 
| Marc Seligman Spoken Translation
 USA
 Spoken Language Translation: Interactivity as the Key to Real-World Development
 | Antonio S. Valderrábanos Bitext - The Bit and Text Company
 Spain
 A new KM Paradigm based on the Neolithic Experience: from foraging Knowledge to farming Knowledge
 | Gregor Thurmair Linguatec
 Germany
 Frontends for Content Analysis
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| 15:45 | 
| Jordan Cohen Voice Signal Technologies
 USA
 Putting Speech Technology in the Customer's Hand
 | Elisabeth Maier Canoo Engineering
 Switzerland
 Integrating Linguistic Products into Corporate Applications
 | Lou Cremers Océ
 The Netherlands
 An Automatic Localisation Workflow Integrating Language Technologies
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| 16:15 | 
| Franciska De Jong Twente University
 The Netherlands
 Spoken Document Retrieval
 | Hans Uszkoreit DFKI
 Germany
 Language Technology for Associative Memories and the Semantic Web
 | Johannes Heinecke joint presentation with Alain Léger, Aarno Lehtola and Catherine Bounsaythip
 France Telecom/VTT
 France/Finland
 Multilinguality in eCommerce Knowledge-Based Mediation System
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| 16:45 | 
| Exhibition visit and Coffee |  | 
| 17:15 |  | 
| 18:30 |  | 
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| DAY 2 |  | 
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| 8:30 | 
| Opening Exhibition visit and coffee
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| 10:00 | 
| Keynote |  
| Sanda Harabagiu Language Computer Corporation and Texas University
 USA
 Empowering Today's Customers with New Tools for Information Seeking
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| 10:45 | 
| Panel 1: Changing industry needs, new technology suppliers |  
| Carlo Aliprandi - Synthema - Italy Andrew Bredenkamp - Acrolinx - Germany
 Bernhard Steimel - MIND - Business Consultant - Germany
 Jaap van der Meer - Crosslanguage - Belgium
 Nick Wright - LINK - United-Kingdom
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| 11:45 | 
| Panel 2: Speech and language technology markets: is the picture getting clearer? |  
| Rose Lockwood - Bowne Global Solutions - United-KingdomMartine Dejean - Bureau Van Dijk - France
 Peter Ryan - Datamonitor - United-Kingdom
 Donna Parish - Multilingual Computing & Technology - USA
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| 12:45 | 
| Exhibition visit and lunch |  | 
| 14:15 | 
| Panel 3: Support of Language Technologies through National and European Programmes |  
| Hans Uszkoreit  - DFKI - Germany Giovanni Varile - European Commission - Luxemburg
 Joseph Mariani - Ministry of Research and New Technologies - France
 Bernd Reuse - Bundesministerium für Bilding und Forschung - Germany
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| 15:15 | 
| Exhibition visit and coffee |  | 
| 16:00 | 
| Panel 4: Future directions In Memory of Antonio Zampolli |  
| David Nahamoo - IBM T. J. Watson Rsearch Center - USA Roger Moore - 20/20 Speech Ltd - United-Kingdom
 Alex Waibel - Carnegie Mellon University, Interactive Systems Lab - USA
 Steven Krauwer - ELSNET/Utrecht University - Netherlands
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| 17:00 |  | 
| 17:15 | 
| Closing ceremony |  
| Speakers tba |  | 
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