The European Language Grid (ELG) aims to provide a digital marketplace where European companies, organizations and citizens can both offer and efficiently use language technologies, data sets and services. The ELG workshop presents an overview of the ELG platform and the ELG pilot projects. Welcome to see what ELG has to offer for you!
The workshop is a free online event, but registration is required. Please register via the ELRC website by 10th December. NB: In case you wish to participate in the ELG tutorial session that may be arranged after the workshop, please indicate this in the field for additional information on the registration form. Thanks!
Note that the third ELRC Workshop in Finland will also take place online, in the same virtual room, on the same day at 9.30-12.40. Welcome to participate in both events!
| 14:00 | Welcome and introduction |
| 14:05 | ELG Overview Katrin Marheinecke |
| 14:30 | ELG online demo Nils Feldhus |
| 14:50 | Presentations of Finnish Pilot Projects funded in ELG: PARA4DLM (University of Turku), LSDISCO (Lingsoft); OPUS-MT (University of Helsinki) |
| 15:20 | Expectations/requirements of Finnish Language Technology providers Marko Turpeinen, 1001Lakes |
| 15:40 | Summary and discussion |
| 16:00 | End of workshop |
| 16:15 | Tutorial: How to integrate a service into ELG This tutorial may be organized according to requests from the participants. Please indicate your interest in the registration form. |
Last updated: December 7, 2020
Organizers:
The European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) consortium
Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki
Language Technology is shaping our multilingual future. It has already been transforming the way we interact with our devices and with each other, the way we shop, work and travel. More and more it reshapes our interaction with service providers, either public or private. Programs that automatically correct spelling errors and aid sophisticated writing, digital assistants that transform our voices to text messages on mobile phones, bots that answer our calls to the bank or to our social security organisation, systems that automatically translate from a foreign language, and much more, are already empowering our everyday lives, our businesses and our administrations. But can we fully use our own language in our digital interactions? Is our language adequately supported and ready to keep pace with the technological advancements of the AI era?
The third Finnish European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) workshop will address these questions and it will seek to engage participants in a fruitful discussion on the status and prospects of Language Technology for Finnish. Developers, integrators and users of Language Technology, both from the private and public sector will share experiences, requirements and ways for transforming digital interaction in our multilingual Europe with Language Technologies. Finally, we will discuss how language data, i.e. texts and speech, can fuel development in Artificial Intelligence.
This workshop continues the series of previous ELRC workshops that were organized in Finland on 19.2.2016 and 24.10.2018.
This ELRC workshop is organized in collaboration with the European Language Grid (ELG). The 4th Regional ELG Workshop will take place in the afternoon, starting at 14:00. For details, see the ELG workshop page. Welcome to register and attend both events!
The ELRC workshop is a free event, but registration is required. You can use the same form to register to both the ELRC workshop (morning sessions) and the ELG workshop (afternoon sessions).
Please register via the ELRC website by 10th December. Welcome!
| 09:30 – 09:40 | Welcome and introduction (video, pdf) |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | The potential of Language Technology and AI – where we are, where we should be heading (video, pdf) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Language Technologies for the Languages of Finland – Panel session (video, pdf) |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | The CEF AT Platform (video, pdf) |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Language technologies by/for the public sector – Panel session (video, pdf) |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Language data creation, management and sharing: existing practices and challenges – Panel session (video) |
12:15 – 12:30 | The EU Council Presidency Translator – Finnish presidency success story and what’s beyond (video, pdf) |
12:30 – 12:40 | Conclusions (video, pdf) |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | Break |
| 14:00 – 16:30 | European Language Grid (ELG): Introduction and overview. The ELG workshop is organized in collaboration with the European Language Grid (ELG) and it will take place in the same online meeting room as the ELRC workshop. Please note that the ELG workshop will be held in English only. Welcome to register and participate in both events! The detailed program for the ELG workshop is updated at https://www.kielipankki.fi/elg-workshop-2020/. |
Please register via the ELRC website by 10th December. Welcome!
Mietta Lennes and Tommi Jauhiainen
University of Helsinki / FIN-CLARIN
fin-clarin [ATT] helsinki.fi
Last updated: December 8, 2020
The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For people from the humanities and social sciences, it shows what is possible to achieve with such collaboration.
The #DHH20 event was postponed until 19.–28.5.2021.
http://www.oulu.fi/suomenkieli/node/55261
Digital resources and technology are used more and more within the humanities and the social sciences. Researchers in digital humanities gather, administer and share rapidly accumulating digital resources. They also need various research methods and tools in working with these resources. The conference Research Data and Humanities (RDHum) seeks to gather researchers around these themes. In addition to researchers, we invite teachers, graduate and postgraduate students as well as other interested parties to participate and to contribute.
RDHum 2019 is jointly organised by the University of Oulu and the University of Jyväskylä, in collaboration with FIN-CLARIN and Kielipankki, The Language Bank of Finland. The event is the first in the series of conferences taking place every other year in one of the universities within the FIN-CLARIN Consortium. The first RDHum Conference is hosted by the University of Oulu where the Oulu Corpus, a comprehensive digital research resource at the time, was collected and compiled 50 years ago. The working languages in the conference are Finnish, Swedish and English.
For more information, please send an inquiry to: RDHum2019 [AT] oulu.fi
Welcome! Please register in advance via the ELRC website.
*in collaboration with the Finnish Language Cluster Kites http://www.kites.fi
09:00 – 10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome and introduction
Krister Lindén, ELRC Technology National Anchor Point in Finland, FIN-CLARIN, University of Helsinki
Taru Virtanen, ELRC Public Services National Anchor Point in Finland, Prime Minister’s Office
Mikael Reiman, European Commission Representation in Finland
Session 1. Connecting a multilingual Europe: European context and local needs
10:10 – 10:25 The European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC)
Aivars Bērziņš, European Language Resource Coordination, Tilde
10:25 – 11:30 Multilingual Finland
Challenges in multilingualism
Christoffer Forssell, The Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE
Carola Grönholm, Kela
Government language and translation guidelines
Taru Virtanen, Prime Minister’s Office; ELRC PS-NAP
Translation procurement in the public sector, Hansel as a case study
Anni Airaksinen, Hansel
11:30 – 12:00 Panel session: How MT can help, an outlook into current and future challenges
Moderator: Mikael Reiman, European Commission Representation in Finland
Panelists: Christoffer Forssell/YLE, Simo Kankkunen/Prime Minister’s Office and Jörg Tiedemann/University of Helsinki
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
Session 2. Engage: hands-on data
13:00 – 13:30 The CEF eTranslation platform @ work *
Erkka Vuorinen, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT)
13:30 – 14:00 eTranslation Termbank *
Simon Dahlberg, Language Council of Sweden (Språkrådet)
14:00 – 14:30 Governments, NGOs, MT and accessibility *
Mary Nurminen, University of Tampere and Maarit Koponen, University of Turku
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:30 Data sharing myths and challenges *
Jarkko Reittu, National Institute for Health and Welfare
15:30 – 16:00 Identifying and managing your data and how ELRC can assist and help *
Aivars Bērziņš, European Language Resource Coordination, Tilde
16:00 – 16:30 Questions and Answers/Open Discussion/Conclusion
Updated: October 23, 2018
The very first RDHum conference.
