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Antonio Sassano
Director General |
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Giordano Bruno Guerri
LangTech2008 chair |
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Karl Johan Lönnroth
Director General of DGTLanguage Technologies and the European Commission. |
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Renato De Mori
Using Frames in Spoken Language Understanding. |
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Geoffrey Zweig
Voice search on mobile devices. |
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| 1. Loquendo | Gold sponsor | |
| 2. PerVoice | Silver Sponsor | |
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Daniel Hong
Understanding the Market Movements in Network Speech: Aligning Business and Technology. |
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Carlo Paris
Venture Capital and language technology business. |
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Nicoletta Calzolari
New European Infrastructural and Networking Initiatives. |
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Andrea Paoloni
The ForumTAL Initiative. |
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Fausto Ramondelli
Captioning – accessibility to education for hearing impaired. |
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Marc Golden
Realtime Speech-to-Text: A means to an End. |
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Thierry Spriet
Stentor, a new Computer-Aided Transcription software for French Language. |
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Joseph Bonet
Machine translation in the European Commission. |
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Philipp Koehn
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Akitoshi Okumura
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Giuseppe Fabbrocino
Language Technology & Intelligence. |
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Pasquale Angelosanto
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Christian Fluhr
Multilingual language engineering for Business Intelligence. |
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Mario Caligiuri
University and Intelligence: an Italian Point of View. |
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Mario Coggio
How semantic technology can support intelligence: the applications in OSINT. |
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Khalid Choukri
Language technology evaluation in Europe Key achievements and the need for an infrastructure. |
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Kimmo Rossi
Putting HLT research and techology into action for European multilingualism. |
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Stelios Piperidis
Crossing media for improved information access: the REVEAL THIS example. |
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Alex Waibel
Challenges of Speech to Speech Translation in the context of Human-Human Communications. |
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Herve Bourlard
Recognition and Understanding of Meetings: The European AMI and AMIDA Projects. |
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Hans Uszkoreit
Language Technology in Tomorrow's Search Application. |
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Christian F. Hempelmann
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Mario Lenz
Title to be defined. |
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Thomas Hofmann
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Geoffrey Zweig
Title to be defined. |
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Roberto Pieraccini
Advanced speech and language technology for complex customer care automation and self-service. |
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Diana Binnenpoorte
What makes a successful speech enabled call routing application? |
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Bente Maegaard
Chair:
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Enrico Motta
Language technologies and the semantic web: an essential relationship. |
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Christopher Welty
Answering Questions from the Semantic Web. |
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LangTech2008SME prize Cerimony Carlo Paris & Bente Maegaard |
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Future LangTechWhy, When and Where Dorota Iskra |
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Open
Source Tools for Statistical Machine Translation.
NEC
Machine Translation Service and Technology for Mobile Phones.
Semantic
Search: Content versus Formalism. 
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to be defined. 
