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· 2012-05-18 ·

META-NORD will participate in LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey 23-25 May

On Wednesday, May 23, starts LREC 2012: The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Traditionally, LREC brings together a large number of specialists interested and working in the field of language resources and their evaluation.

The META-NET network and the META-NORD project will be presented at the LREC EU Project Village. The META-NORD project will be also presented at the poster session Language Resources Infrastructures with the poster “Creation of an Open Shared Language Resource Repository in the Nordic and Baltic Countries”.

We would like to invite everyone interested in language resources to visit the META-NORD booth and learn about the goals and recent advances of the project.

 

· 2012-04-16 ·

Meta-Nord at eMatch event in Oslo

UIB (University of Bergen) represented Meta-Nord at an eMatch matchmaking event in Oslo, Norway on March 26, 2012. eMatch is an international profiling and project matchmaking platform. It is one of the services offered by the Forum of e-Excellence (EMF), the European cross-stakeholders' network promoting excellence in the digital economy. The eMatch network and partners include partners from the European ICT and media industries (defined by Eurostat and OECD as 'the new Information and Communication Sector' - ICS).

Meta-Nord was invited to the event as the event aimed to link knowledge about semantic technologies, languages, databases and publications. The event offered information and demonstrations of language banks, semantic technology and modern publishing solutions.

· 2012-04-03 ·

Helsinki Finite-State Technology (HFST ) received an award at CICLing 2012

UHEL (University of Helsinki) participated in CICLing 2012 on March 11-17 in New Delhi, India, where they presented HFST. One presentation showed how HFST can be used for improving input for mobile phone text messages and another demonstrated how the quality of spelling suggestions can be improved. The article on improving mobile phone input "Predictive Text Entry for Agglutinative Languages Using Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation", authors Miikka Silfverberg, Krister Linden and Mirka Hyvärinen (UHEL), received the best student paper award.

 

· 2012-02-09 ·

META-NORD consortium meeting

META-NORD consortium meeting took place at LKI, on 5-6 March, 2012 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Partners of the project discussed first year results, progress so far in each work package. The plan of activities and future tasks have been discussed and considered: up-coming Deliverables, preparation for national workshops, further consortium meetings,  participation in international conferences where META-NORD will be presented.

 

· 2012-02-03 ·

META-NORD at the International Vilnius and Baltic Book Fair

Project META-NORD was presented at the 13‘th International Book Fair, Vilnius, Lithuania, 23-26 February, 2012. Jolanta Zabarskaitė (LKI) presented importance, goals and achievements of the project META-NORD, Rita Miliūnaitė (LKI) showed new electronic source - Database of Neologisms. After that Algirdas Saudargas (The European Parliament) took part in a discussion “Lithuanian Language in 21st century – challenges and new possibilities” and exposed weaknesses of the countries with little amount of language technologies and how projects like META-NORD can change such kind of situations. To sum up, the main goal to spread the information about the project among participants of the biggest Book Fair in the Baltic countries was reached.

 

· 2012-02-03 ·

META-NORD at the Global Wordnet Conference in Japan, Matsue

The META-NORD project partners from UCPH (Bolette Sandford Pedersen) and UHEL (Krister Lindén) attended the Global Wordnet Conference in Japan, Matsue, 9-13 January 2012. Bolette Sandford Pedersen presented the Horizontal task on Wordnets in META-NORD “Linking and Validating Nordic and Baltic Wordnets - A Multilingual Action in META-NORD“ on behalf of herself and several META-NORD partners. The presentation focused on the validation of different methods for wordnet building; an approach which gained high interest at the conference. Likewise with FinnWordNet  which is now the world‘s second largest WordNet available as an open-source, presented by Krister Lindén.

 

· 2012-01-18 ·

META-NORD seminar on achievements and benefits for business and researchers

The seminar that was held at the Lithuanian Language Institute was aimed at mobilising the research community, state organisations and business. It was attended by representatives from Vilnius University, Kaunas University of Technology, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania, the Centre of Information Technologies in Education and parties concerned from Info-Balt. They were introduced to the first-year results of Meta-Nord, were given a presentation and took part in a discussion about the Meta-Share idea and possibilities. The representatives who are working on meta data resources demonstrated the work that had been done to make the Lithuanian language resources available for the Meta-Share system.

 

· 2011-12-15 ·

META-NORD&FIN-CLARIN seminar in Finland.

The seminar was focused on demos on Annex/Trova (Mietta Lennes), Meta-Share editor (Jussi Piitulainen), FinnWordNet (Jyrki Niemi) and a presentation on the Finnish Treebank (Atro Voutilainen). This was a promotion event for Meta-Share.

In this seminar participated META-NORD&FIN-CLARIN partners from UHEL, CSC, KOTUS, Aalto University, The National Archives, etc., as well as members of the UHEL META-NORD and FIN-CLARIN teams (Krister Lindén, Kimmo Koskenniemi, Tanja Purtonen, Tommi Pirinen, Anssi Yli-Jyrä, Imre Bartis).

The attendees of CLARA Career Course get acquainted with META-NORD

The CLARA is the Initial Training Network in the Marie Curie Actions on Common Language Resources and their Applications. Its Career Course on Product Planning for Next Generation Information Access Technology Solutions was held in the Centre for Advance Academic Studies, University of Zagreb in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 2011-09-20 until 2011-09-23. The course offered complementary skills for early stage researchers for their future R&D careers in industry or in academic cooperation with industry. Within this course different language resources and applications of LRT were presented . The META-NORD project was explained by the usage of poster that was presented by Prof. Koenraad De Smedt.

 

· 2011-10-22 ·

META-NET Network Meeting and General Assembly

In October 21st and 22nd last META-NETizens from all across Europe came together in Berlin for the first META-NET Network Meeting and General Assembly. In total 93 participants attended the meetings representing every node in the META-NET Network of Excellence incorporating four European projects, T4ME, CESAR, METANET4U and META-NORD.

 

· 2011-10-14 ·

EUROLAN 2011 Summer school

On August 24 – September 4 the EUROLAN 2011 Summer school , the venue was Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the heart of Transylvania, provided one week of intensive study of the natural language processing technologies currently under development to support industrial applications. Internationally known scholars, researchers (with the particular involvement of scientists from the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance – META), as well as industrials involved in leading-edge work in innovative areas of natural language processing gave lectures at the school (tutorials, hands-on labs and demos) to share with students in-depth understanding and experience.

The META-NORD project was one of the silver sponsors of the event and the project coordinator Andrejs Vasiļjevs gave a lecture "META-NET, related projects and industry-research collaboration"

· 2011-09-30 ·

Metadata workshop Helsinki, Finland

On the 30th of September in Helsinki Metadata workshop took place. The main purpose of the workshop was to help META-NORD partners create metadata for their resources which needed to be uploaded to the META-NORD repository by the end of November. Before the workshop each participant was asked to collect as many questions related to problems with creating metadata as possible, since part of the meeting time was dedicated to solving encountered issues.

 

· 2011-09-14 ·

META-NORD @ CLARIN Seminar in Riga, Latvia

The META-NORD project concept, objectives, expected impact and results were presented by the project coordinator Andrejs Vasiļjevs (TILDE) at CLARIN seminar held on July 5, 2011 at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia (CLARIN in Latvia).

 

· 2011-07-05 ·

META-NORD @ Norwegian Språkbank seminar

META-NORD was heavily represented at the Norwegian Språkbank seminar, with three presentations in June 2011 (Bolette Pedersen—Denmark, Koenraad deSmedt—Norway and Raivis Skadiņš—Tilde).

· 2011-06-30 ·

META-NORD @ META-FORUM 2011

META-FORUM 2011 "Solutions for Multilingual Europe featured an exhibition space "META-EXHIBITION" in which various aspects of the work being done across the entire META community and beyond were displayed and demonstrated. The exhibition reflected both the research and industry aspects of the META community. That was a fantastic opportunity for everybody to network with others in the field and to showcase their work to a large and influential audience drawn from stakeholders across research, industry and various national and European institutions. META-NORD was presented with the poster by the project coordinator Andrejs Vasiļjevs (TILDE).

Andrejs Vasiļjevs also gave a talk "The META-NET Whitepaper Series on European Languages". The whitepapers report on the state of each European language with respect to Language Technology and explains the most urgent risks and chances. The series covers all official European languages. META-NET Language White Papers are available for the following META-NORD languages: Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Swedish.

· 2011-06-29 ·

META-NORD @ Workshop on Visibility and Availability of LT Resources

META-NORD participated in the workshop on visibility and availability of LT resources co-located with NODALIDA 2011. The workshop participants discussed how existing resources can be made more visible and available, and initiated discussions on how closed resources can be made accessible, especially with the aim of fostering multilingual and cross-lingual language technology not only between the Nordic languages but also between Nordic majority and minority languages as well as between Nordic and non-Nordic languages.

META-NORD presentation “META-NORD: Baltic and Nordic Branch of the European Open Linguistic Infrastructure” was given by the project coordinator Andrejs Vasiļjevs.

META-NORD presentation "The META-NORD language reports" was given by the project partner Koenraad De Smedt.

· 2011-05-11 ·

META-NORD @ CHAT 2011 Workshop

META-NORD was one of the organizers of the CHAT 2011: Creation, Harmonization and Application of Terminology Resources workshop. The main idea of the workshop was to focus on the fostering the cooperation between the European Projects and research and development activities in the area of terminology, and bring together academic and industrial researchers, as well as attract and involve postgraduate students and young researchers.

CHAT was a joint effort of TILDE, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, NHH (Norway), the Seventh Framework Programme TTC project, the Seventh Framework Programme CLARA project, the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme META-NORD project, and Programme Committee members from ten countries throughout the world.

We hope the participants found the workshop interesting and useful for their further research in the development of terminology resources and services of the future, had fruitful discussions and revealed promising perspectives. CHAT proceedings have been published in the electronic repository of the University of Tartu Library as NEALT Proceedings Series vol. 12.

META-NORD publication "From Terminology Database to Platform for Terminology Services", Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tatiana Gornostay and Inguna Skadiņa (TILDE), presented at CHAT 2011 by Andrejs Vasiļjevs, discussed among others the concept of sharing of terminology resources through the European open linguistic infrastructure.

· 2011-05-11 ·

Progress meeting in Riga

The META-NORD project progress meeting took place at TILDE on 2011-05-10 in Riga, Latvia. Ongoing tasks and deliverables as well as future work were discussed among partners.

· 2011-05-10 ·

META-NORD kick-off meeting

META-NORD partners participating in the kick-off meeting with project officer Philippe Gelin.

META-NORD kick-off meeting took place in EUROFORUM Building in Luxembourg on 2011-02-10. After presentations of individual work packages, general procedures and the first steps were coordinated. Also the general schedule and first deliverables were agreed upon.

· 2011-02-10 ·

META-NORD project started

The project META-NORD "Baltic and Nordic Parts of the European Open Linguistic Infrastructure" that has received funding from the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme "Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme" (ICT PSP), Theme 6: Multilingual Web, under the Funding Scheme "CIP-Pilot actions", grant agreement no 270899, started on 2011-02-01.

· 2011-02-01 ·