CNGL's presence at Language Technology Days

A number of members of CNGL, CNGL-affiliated projects and the NCLT attended the Language Technology Days on 22-23 March in Luxembourg. These included Prof. Josef van Genabith (CNGL Director), Prof. Andy Way (ILT Principal Investigator), Ms. Riona Finn (CNGL Centre Administrator), Dr. John Judge (META-NET CIO), and Dr. Lamia Tounsi (NCLT). Invited speaker Prof. Andy Way presented the successful PSP project 'PLuTO': Patent Language Translations Online. CNGL are coordinating this project, and supplying information retrieval and machine translation expertise to the consortium. Prof. Way's talk was very well received.

Prof. Andy Way, Mr. Roberto Cencioni, Prof. Josef van Genabith

CNGL was also very much to the fore in two presentations by Prof. Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI) on 'META-NET', the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance Network of Excellence of which CNGL is a founding member. CNGL was also mentioned strongly in presentations on three STREPs: by Dr. Philipp Koehn (Edinburgh) on 'EuroMatrix+', by Dr. Christof Monz (Amsterdam) on 'Cosyne', and by Dr. Nuria Bel (UPF, Barcelona) on 'Panacea'.

Dr. Lamia Tounsi (NCLT) travelled with financial support from Enterprise Ireland to present her project proposal "European Southern Partner Language" to EU project officers. She received good feedback, and found many potential contacts for possible collaborations. Finally, a META-NET project meeting was held in Luxembourg on Wed 24th March.

In sum, this was excellent publicity for CNGL and affiliated centres, and CNGL continues to be very well placed for further FP7 calls to be issued later in 2010.