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DAY 1
24th November 2003
   
8:30
Opening & registrations
10:00
Opening Ceremony
Welcome Address & Programme Introduction
Invited speakers - tba
10:30
Keynote
Stuart R. Patterson, President
ScanSoft
USA
State of the Art and the Market in Speech Technologies, New Trends in HLT
11:15
Exhibition visit and press conference
 
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
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
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
13:15
Exhibition visit and Lunch
 
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
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
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
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
16:45
Exhibition visit and Coffee
17:15
SME elevator pitch presentations
18:30
Exhibition visit
 
Evening Reception

DAY 2
25th November 2003
   
8:30
Opening
Exhibition visit and coffee
10:00
Keynote
Sanda Harabagiu
Language Computer Corporation and Texas University
USA
Empowering Today's Customers with New Tools for Information Seeking
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
11:45
Panel 2: Speech and language technology markets: is the picture getting clearer?

Rose Lockwood - Bowne Global Solutions - United-Kingdom
Martine Dejean - Bureau Van Dijk - France
Peter Ryan - Datamonitor - United-Kingdom
Donna Parish - Multilingual Computing & Technology - USA

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
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
17:00
Awards ceremony (SMEs)
17:15
Closing ceremony
Speakers tba
 
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