The 19th LSP Symposium will be be held from 8-10 July 2013 at the Centre for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna.
ESTeam and LISE project partners will present LISE and speak on terminology workflows, cooperation in terminology work, elevating the quality of terminology resources, legal and legislative taxonomy management and the cooperation of LISE with IATE.
Michael Wetzel, Senior Product Manager at ESTeam, will present the technology behind LISE.
The EU’s multilingual nature can be an asset for European companies, giving them the tools they need to harness multilingualism as a means of accessing multicultural global markets and gaining a competitive advantage over their US counterparts, heard participants in this Policy Dialogue, jointly organised by the EPC and the European Academy of Yuste Foundation, and with the kind support of Poliglotti4.eu project.
Jochen Hummel, Chairman of LT Innovate and CEO of ESTeam is quoted in this report, saying that while "… capital could flow freely between EU countries, the same could not be said of information, citing as an example the difficulties of cross-border e-government." And " …it’s not necessarily a translation problem. It’s a problem of processing multilingual information. The control of information and content has changed, shifting from companies to users and from governments to citizens"
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Brussels will again be the meeting point for the Language Technology Industry to network, discuss needs, strategies, innovation opportunities and business trends.
The LT-Innovate Summit will bring together Language Technology vendors (speech, translation and intelligent content technologies) and other stakeholders (investors, buyers, integrators, researchers, policy makers).
Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam and Chairman of LT-Innovate welcomes you at the event.
The European Data Forum is the annual meeting-point for data practitioners from industry, research, the public-sector and the community, to discuss the opportunities and challenges of the emerging Big Data Economy in Europe.
Gudrun Magnusdottir, CSO of ESTeam, is moderating a panel discussion on language technology: Unlocking the Data Treasure Chest.
Language technologies are inevitable for adding value to Big Data. They are needed for extracting information and knowledge from textual documents and social media, and for making them accessible across language borders. But they are also required for searching, linking and documenting non linguistic, e.g. numerical or multi media data, through effective metadata. And they are the core of intuitive semantic interfaces to the human consumer of the end products, e.g., through question answering, report generation and summarization.
Join Gudrun and a round of experts on 10th of April.
The tekom spring conference is an event which focuses on German speaking regions of Europe. This year’s focus is on Mobile Documentation.
Meet Michael Wetzel, Senior Product Manager, at the event
The Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz) brings
together today’s industry thought leaders and practitioners to explore
the challenges and opportunities jointly impacting both corporate
business leaders and technologists.
Meet Jochen Hummel, CEO and Gudrun Magnusdottir, CSO at the event.
Listen to Jochen and Gudrun on Monday, June 3: Language meets Knowledge – how to achieve cross-border interoperability.
Last Monday, 4th February, all LISE partners were on their way to Benelux.
The first event took place in Luxembourg: a joint workshop with IATE users from several European institutions (CdT, Court of Auditors, Parliament). Representatives from all LISE work packages teamed up with members from the IATE group to play with, evaluate and discuss LISE technology. ESTeam Tools – the technology in LISE – are now customized and enabled to process IATE data – with more than 11 million terms probably the largest European terminology collection. It turned out that particularly ESTeam Cleanup plays an indispensable role when assuring high quality terminology resources. High quality language resources – crucial in legal practices (LISE’s focus) as well as in the finance, insurance or health care business(es). One participant commented: “automatically spotting errors, misspellings, doublettes, wrong classification attributes … – this is a terminologist’s dream”.
We then all continued to Ghent to meet in the premises of LISE partner CrossLang. The official LISE EMB / TMB meetings carried on throughout Wednesday afternoon. Joeri van de Walle from CrossLang presented us with preliminary results from the IATE workshop, confirming the encouraging feedback from the day before. The final evaluation reports will contain qualitative (via a survey) as well as quantitative figures (via statistical capabilities in the ESTeam Tools). An additional workshop is already planned to take place in Brussels.
On Thursday we had the LISE Advisory Group meeting. Advisors from EMF, Swiss Federal Chancellery, and Infoterm assessed LISE, its technological and economic potential. Since the workshops have already confirmed the users’ needs and the value of the technology, we are now ready to focus on how to exploit and market the LISE value proposition. And, indeed, we are embracing several brilliant suggestions from the advisors on how to proceed.
Fascinating weeks!
Network Meeting and General Assembly. Current State of Play and Next Steps
The highlights are:
Introducing the META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020
Official launch of META-SHARE
Taking stock and wrapping up: three years of META-NET
Discussion: next steps and future plans
Meet Jochen Hummel, CEO at ESTeam and Gudrun Magnusdottir, CSO at ESTeam at the event.
Sprachtechnologie heute und morgen: Perspektiven und Strategien
Organised by META-NET, the DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence), and GSCL(German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology).
Attend a presentation by Michael Wetzel, Senior Product Manager at ESTeam about "Language Resources, Machine Translation and Interoperability"
Meet also Gudrun Magnusdottir, CSO at ESTeam.
Two entire days on trademarks: keynote speeches, plenary sessions and workshops. General survey of trademark protection and
anti-counterfeiting: strategies, case studies, best practices and ongoing reforms, all IP practitioners need to know. The key topics are:
Two days of intensive patent debates, with keynotes, plenary sessions and workshops (9 streams). A comprehensive blend of key patent reforms. The key topics are:
Learn about the latest developments in patent information from the EPO.
This year, at the invitation of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office, the Patent Information Conference will take place at the Grand Elysée hotel in Hamburg, Germany.
Packed with innovative panels, case studies and real-world perspectives, SemTechBiz offers one tutorial day and two comprehensive full days of fresh insight and immersive learning from global experts in technology, financial services, healthcare, publishing, search, mobile and enterprise data. An exhibit hall will also showcase the latest tools and solutions across the Semantic and Big Data landscape. Attendees come to SemTechBiz for the practical advice, hands-on guidance and meaningful takeaways that our business luminaries and subject matter veterans bring to the table.
The London Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz) brings together today’s industry thought leaders and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities jointly impacting both corporate business leaders and technologists.
Meet Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam, at the event.
On 19 June 2012, over 160 key players of the Language Technology (LT) industry met in Brussels for the first LT-Innovate Summit. The event showcased new technologies in LT, fostered investment opportunities, but most importantly, it successfully conveyed the message that Language Technologies are the missing piece in the puzzle of the EU’s strategy for the Digital Single Market.
Philippe Wacker, Secretary General of LT-Innovate (http://www.lt-innovate.eu), stated: “A multilingual infrastructure is as important for Europe as a broadband infrastructure! Making content produced in any language available to 500 million Europeans is the real opportunity in the decade ahead.”
Jochen Hummel, LT-Innovate Chairman and CEO of ESTeam: “The language infrastructure is an important piece of enabling technology that the EU should procure as soon as possible. It would be a major booster for the European content economy with positive spill-over effects for almost every segment of the economy and society at large.”
New frontiers in the constructive symbiosis of terminology and knowledge engineering
TKE 2012 will be the 10th edition of this conference that started out under the auspices of Infoterm in 1987, and since 1990 has been supported by Infoterm and TermNet. In the course of the years TKE has developed towards wider fields in knowledge transfer for special language communication in a multilingual global society. In this context, interdisciplinary research emphasizing the intersection of different disciplines dealing with terminological aspects and knowledge engineering resources online is welcome. This conference will mainly focus on those theoretical, methodological and practical aspects that show the symbiosis of terminology and knowledge engineering by highlighting the recent advances in these related fields.
Meet Michael Wetzel, Senior Product Manager, at the event.
The LT-Innovate Summit will bring together all major players involved in Language Technology (LT) such as policy makers, vendors and corporates, experts and investors, enhancing the visibility of the fragmented European LT landscape and establishing LT as a key enabling technology for Europe.
Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam and Chairman of LT-Innovate, will be moderating the event. Meet also Gudrun Magnusdottir, CSO of ESTeam, at the event.
META-FORUM is an international conference on powerful technologies for the multilingual European information society. Highlights:
Meet Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam, and Gudrun Magnusdottir, CSO of ESTeam, at the forum.
Explore semantic technologies for improved interoperability and e-Government services.
The Semantic Interoperability Conference 2012 – SEMIC 2012 – offers a unique opportunity to explore and discuss how semantic interoperability solutions are being embraced by e-Government initiatives. The conference combines plenary sessions and interactive panels in an inspiring networking atmosphere. e-Government and semantics experts will present their case studies and real-life examples and experiences with semantic technologies.
Meet Jochen Hummel, CEOof ESTeam, and Gudrun Magnusdottir, CSO of ESTeam, at the event.
Berlin Buzzwords 2012 is a conference for developers and users of open source software projects, focussing on the issues of scalable search, data-analysis in the cloud and NoSQL-databases. Berlin Buzzwords presents more than 30 talks and presentations of international speakers specific to the three tags "search", "store" and "scale".
Meet Michael Wetzel, Senior Product Manager, at the event.
Berlin, Töreboda, May 2012 – The European Commission, Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG, has signed a 2-year framework contract with ESTeam AB. In order to develop, manage and disseminate the ESCO classification (European skills/competences, qualifications, and occupations), the European Commission requires external expertise to support the development, enhancement, assessment and management of the ESCO taxonomy and other taxonomies.
ESCO’s objective is to develop a multilingual, structured, easy-to-use terminology to describe the most relevant skills, competences and qualifications needed for several thousand occupations. This brings benefits to both jobseekers and employers. For example, it could be used to help jobseekers better describe their skill sets, or to develop new training initiatives adapted to the needs of the labour market and improved career guidance services.
ESTeam is providing expertise on taxonomies, semantic technologies as well as controlled vocabularies and terminological resources.
EURES Portal (basis of the ESCO classification)
Berlin, Töreboda May 2012 – OHIM, the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), based in Alicante, Spain, has signed a 4-Year framework contract with ESTeam AB. In a continuous effort to improve business processes, OHIM requires and implements high-quality and value-adding services with regard to the usage of domain language in legal decision support scenarios.
With many years of experience in intellectual property matters, ESTeam is delivering linguistic consultancy and development services, such as linguistic text mining and database cleaning, textual information retrieval, multilingual terminology management, resource providing and decision support analysis, tools and systems to OHIM.
The Digital Agenda for Europe is the European Union’s roadmap for bringing the benefits of a digital society and economy to Europe’s citizens. But it can only deliver if all stakeholders are involved in assessing problems and identifying solutions. The Assembly consists of an online engagement space launched ahead of the event, 8 workshops on key Digital Agenda topics and a plenary session to report feedback on previous discussions and hold debates on the way forward.
The hashtag of the assembly is #da12.
Meet Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam, at the event.
The largest conference for the Apache Lucene/Solr open source search community! Now in its third year – and its fifth conference, the event is hosted by Lucid Imagination, the commercial entity exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr enterprise search.
Meet Jochen Hummel, CEO at the event.
More than 9,000 intellectual property professionals will convene in Washington, D.C. for INTA’s 2012 Annual Meeting – the premier trademark event for networking, continuing legal education, and committee and client meetings. This year’s Annual Meeting will feature valuable skill-building workshops, industry breakouts,interactive table topics, and trademark law sessions focused on international topics; as well as an exhibition hall boasting nearly 100 exhibitors debuting new products and services to help protect your brand.
Meet Jochen Hummel, CEO and Gudrun Magnusdóttir, CSO at the event.
The bi-annual German speaking event is organized by Deutsche Terminologie-Tag e.V. (DTT). The main topics this year cover the following:
Meet Michael Wetzel, Senior Product Manager, at the event in Heidelberg.
The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) takes place in Istanbul. The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones.
ESTeam is pleased that its joined paper "Putting together apples and oranges: the LISE tools suite for collaborative terminology work" together with EURAC, Bolzano and the University of Vienna, Vienna has been accepted for the colabTKR workshop, Collaboration in Terminology and Knowledge Representation, scheduled for Tuesday, 22nd May.
Meet Michael Wetzel, Senior Product Manager, at the conference.
In a support action the EU is funding the creation of a forum for language technologies (LT) companies. The Language Technology Innovation Forum had its constituting meeting on Jan 27 in Brussels. The forum aims to have hundred members by June this year. On June 20 it will have, adjacent to the META meeting in Brussels, its first General Assembly featuring the award session for the LT biz contest.
The forum is supposed to be driven by industry focusing on SMEs and their needs. Therefore the forum has created an Industrial Advisory Board and a Steering Committee. Initiatives shall be driven through Special Interest Groups. Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam, has been elected chairman of the Steering Committee. He is heading the SIG for eGovernment aiming to position LT in the Semantic Layer of the EU’s Interoperability Model. He will also work closely with the forum on developing an Innovation Agenda for the LT industry.
Read more on lt-innovate.eu and follow @LTinnovate, @LangTechNews, and @JochenHummel on Twitter
ESTeam was pleased to host the LISE EMB/TMB meetings in its offices in Berlin. On 2nd and 3rd February LISE consortium members from University Vienna, EURAC, the European Union, crosslang, and ESTeam met to review the first 12 months of the project and to plan the next steps and deliverables.
Project coordinator Tanja Wissik started with a status assessment. We particularly tried to identify items that require clarification before the first official project review meeting end of March with the EU project officer. We then listed and discussed upcoming marketing and dissemination activities, concretely the attendance of LISE partners at the IRIS 2012 conference end of February in Salzburg, the LREC in Istanbul and the TKE in Madrid. The last session of the first day was dedicated to the LISE business plan, where I’ve reported on ESTeam’s in-depth research on the terminology market landscape and how LISE could see commercial success.
On the second day Elena Chiocchetti from EURAC reported on their user research progress and about the outcome of interviews with terminology managers in administrations – the survey is still running and also available online. Then we’ve dedicated a lot of time to demonstrate the already fully functional LISE collaboration portal, developed by ESTeam. It was very encouraging to see that the user needs as identified by EURAC matches very well with what has been implemented in the portal. A fascinating project!
The International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS) will take place at the Law Faculty of the University of Salzburg from 23-25 February 2012. Already being in its 14th year, IRIS has been established as the largest and most important academic conference on computers and law in Austria and Central Europe. The leading topic of IRIS2012 is: Transformation of Legal Languages
ESTeam is pleased that its paper had been accepted. Michael Wetzel, Senior Product Manager will talk about: "LISE Web Service: An Online Collaboration Portal to Facilitate Legal Language Harmonization"
ESTeam attended the 6th European Ministerial eGovernment Conference, entitled "Borderless eGovernment Services for Europeans" on 17 – 18 November 2011 in the City of Poznań organized by the Polish Presidency of the European Union and the European Commission. The conference, a major event during the Polish Presidency, attracted approximately 900 stakeholders from around the world: ministers from EU member states, officials from national, regional and local administrations, industry representatives, civil society and experts.
The conference focused on three main aspects of eGovernance:
Large scale projects such as Peppol were presented and they are due to end in less than one year from now. Regrettably only very few governments are implementing these projects into their infrastructure. The European Commission needs to take a greater responsibility for eGovernment projects that they fund and be the first to put them to use. The needs of the Commission must be considered in these projects since this is the only way that cross border operability will be achieved. The need for cross border services should be implemented by the owner of the problem, namely the organization that crosses EU borders.
Not a lot has happened since the Malmö conference during the last two years. We believe this is due to governments being reluctant to change but rather keep their own operational structure and cost. Furthermore it is apparent that implemented local solutions remain a functional island, missing the potential to be exploited further in other regions – not to mention even other countries. Interoperability and cross border services are fashionable terms in eGovernment but without more actual substance than the plain understanding that the problem is actually there. We are still far away from what to do about the problem.
It is noteworthy that no presented project was close to the scale of Euroclass. Euroclass supports SMEs across Europe to register a trademark in one single step in all EU languages and in any country in a pan European collaborative effort. In such areas progress rather looks slow, while every single step forward is extremely important, since it facilitates the communication between citizens and government as well as having the task to effectively cut the cost and improve the structure of government operations.
Words such as standardization and interoperability are frequently used. Question is how do you standardize in a world with such varied legal and parliamentary systems? Here you must decide to disagree and remember that the insight and knowledge about of where you disagree is also a result of harmonization and interoperability.
ESTeam met many fantastic people from all over Europe with great ideas. The human potential is clearly there for realizing solutions to change old fashioned management and communication methods in European governments.
Online Information is the largest event dedicated to the information industry, providing an annual meeting place for the global information and information management profession.
Meet Michael Wetzel, Senior Product Manager, at the event.
The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) has had its 20th anniversary this year in Glasgow. Over the years, CIKM developed into a prime meeting venue for all scientists interested in information technologies, from both academia and industry. This year, the conference accepted 137 of the 917 paper submissions it received (a 15% acceptance rate), and established its position as one of the largest and most selective conferences in the field.
In addition to all the academic papers, the Thursday industry session was particularly interesting. Stephen Robertson, one of the key personalities of information retrieval, started the session with an acknowledgement of the needs of professional search, in contrast to the vast majority of research done on web search. He argued that instead of viewing professional search as a specific case, it is the web search that is in fact the exception to the rule. Only in web search do we have a practically unlimited data source, where recall is rendered useless and precision rules. He mentioned legal, prior-art and healthcare search as the prototypical professional search scenarios, which require further attention from the information retrieval community. There were also other interesting talks, in particular that of Khalid Al-Kofahi (Thomson Reuters) describing a new search system for legal search applied to civil law jurisdictions.
Together with the main conference, a total of 15 workshops were organized, to cater to all the different aspects of information sources and uses. Among them, the Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR) workshop (4th edition) was organized by Mihai Lupu, member of ESTeam. PaIR 2011 was equally attended by both industry and academic participants. Among them, we counted Google, Springer and CambridgeIP.
The conference was not all about work and also invited the attendees to a series of social events, starting the night before the conference, with a whiskey distillery tour. It continued on Monday with a welcome reception, on Tuesday with a Civic Reception hosted by the Mayor of the city, and finally a conference banquet on Wednesday, in the stunningly-restored Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
The Polish Presidency of the European Union (Ministry of the Interior and Administration) and the European Commission are organising in close co-operation the sixth Ministerial eGovernment Conference, entitled "Borderless eGovernment Services for Europeans", on 17 – 18 November 2011 in the City of Poznań.
The conference, a major event during the Polish Presidency, will attract approximately 900 stakeholders from around the world: ministers from EU Member States, officials from national, regional and local administrations, industry representatives, civil society and experts.
In the area of eGovernment, the Polish Government together with the European Commission are hosting the 6th European Ministerial eGovernment Conference and Exhibition "Borderless eGovernment Services for Europeans" in Poznan, 17th -18th November, 2011. This event will be one of the largest and biggest EU events in Poland during the six month period of Polish Presidency, with approximately 800 delegates.
The Pre-Conference is intended to show the results of important European eGovernment research in generating and implementing e-visions and e-solutions, as well as the possibilities to build new strategies upon current results.
Meet Gudrun Magnusdottir, CSO and Jochen Hummel, CEO at the conference.
ESTeam was pleased to host the EU PLuTO meeting in the very picturesque town of Chania in Crete. On 29th and 30th September PLuTO consortium members from Dublin City University, CrossLang, and ESTeam met to review the first 18 months of the project and to plan the next steps and deliverables.
We kicked off with a review from the PLuTO project coordinator John Tinsley. He particularly demoed a plug-in that makes patent translations available in web browsers upon a simple mouse-click. Joeri van de Walle from CrossLang then illustrated interesting facts about the quality of the machine translation results: the focus on the patent domain guarantees that PLuTO creates better results than other translation systems. Lambros Kranias from ESTeam proudly presented his research on the encouragingly high number of TM subsegment recycling rate. My presentation on potential strategies on commercialization and productization concluded the first day.
On the second day we’ve split into smaller groups and had several productive workshops spread all across the sunny conference site.
European Master’s in Translation (EMT) is a partnership project between the European Commission and higher-education institutions offering master’s level translation programmes.
This conference will shine a light on various aspects of the future of translation as a profession, such as the influence of the latest IT developments on the profession, the future landscape of languages in the world and economic prospects on the language market.
Meet Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam, at the event.
Europe‘s leading event for professional IP management.
The international trade fair of the IP Service World is an absolute must for all IP professionals and decision makers. You will learn about effective ways of organizing IP management, raising efficiency and reducing costs – without downsizing your IP protection.
Meet Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam, at the event.
JEC 2011 brings together translators, users, academic and industrial MT researchers and developers to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings and applications involving MT, but currently under-represented in research circles.
Meet Gudrun Magnusdóttir, founder of ESTeam, at the event.