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Activities

 

António Branco was invited to write an opinion piece in the national weekly newspaper Expresso (in Portuguese).

Lisbon, Portugal, December, 2012

The weekly newspaper Expresso, the largest national reference newspaper in Portugal, published last Saturday (8th of December, 2012), an opinion piece written by António Branco: "Um Gigante com Pés de Barron a Era Digital".

This opinion piece highlights the need to strategically defend the Portuguese language and give a greater support to research on Portuguese.

 

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António Branco was interviewed on national radio RTP - Antena 1 on a science news radio programme about the challenges of the Portuguese language in the digital age (in Portuguese).

Lisbon, Portugal, December, 2012

António Branco was interviewed on the national radio RTP - Antena 1 on the science news radio programme "Os Dias do Futuro". This weekly science news radio programme is led by Edgar Canelas, experienced journalist in the area of science journalism in Portugal. The programme with duration of 50 minutes is generally about research, innovation and development projects.

This program was about the Portuguese language in the digital age and the interview focused on the challenges for European languages in the digital age, especially for the Portuguese, highlighting the crucial role of language technology.

 

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"Língua portuguesa em risco na era digital" ("Portuguese Language at risk in the digital age") António Branco interview on AUTONOMA TV (in portuguese).

Lisbon, Portugal, December, 2012

Following the international workshop and the launch of the White Paper "The Portuguese Language in the Digital Age", António Branco gave an interview to AUTONOMA TV.

The AUTONOMA TV news report focuses on the importance of Language Technology and the role of the White Paper series on "The Languages in the European Union of the Information Society" and highlights the challenges for each language regarding the development of language technology in the preservation of a multilingual Europe in the digital age.

This interview also stresses the state of development of language technology for Portuguese language and its consolidation as a language for international communication with global projection in the digital age, in the scope of this emerging technology.

Besides the promotional video available online, also published an article on the Portuguese White Paper.

 

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The English Language White Paper was launched at the 34th annual Translating and the Computer Conference

London, United Kingdom, November 29th and 30th, 2012

The English White Paper was launched at the 34th annual Translating and the Computer Conference held on 29th and 30th November 2012, in the very heart of London.

The conference took place in the impressive surroundings of One Birdcage Walk, regarded as one of the the finest examples of traditional architecture in Westminster, just a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace. META-NET was represented by John McNaught and Paul Thompson, from the National Centre for Text Mining at the University of Manchester.

The conference was attended by an international audience of translators, language technology and machine translation professionals, as well as researchers working in these areas.

The conference consisted of a number of talks concerning the latest developments in translation and machine translation, including a talk by John McNaught to introduce META-NET and the White Paper Series.
A META-NET exhibition booth was also strategically placed in the refreshment area, ensuring a large amount of interest from and interaction with conference delegates about the META-NET during coffee and lunch breaks. The booth included posters about META-NET, META-SHARE and the White Paper series, and take-home packs were available containing more detailed information about META-SHARE, and executive summaries of the English White Paper and the Strategic Research Agenda. Additionally, all delegate bags contained a META-NET flyer.

Given the recurring themes in the conference talks about increased use of technology in translation work, and the need for interoperability of technologies, the work of META-NET was considered particularly appropriate.

 

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Workshop "Digital Survival of Maltese: building a roadmap"

Valletta, Malta, November 24, 2012

Part of the International Series of Workshops on New Technologies and the Future of Languages, the workshop "Digital Survival of Maltese: building a roadmap" was held on November 24th, 2012, at the Foundation for International Studies, in Valletta. The launch of the Maltese Language White Paper took place during this workshop.

 

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Participation in iberSPEECH2012 a joint event of VII Jornadas de Tecnología del Habla and III Iberian SL Tech Workshop

Madrid, Spain, November 21-23, 2012

The LWP of the four official languages spoken in Spain: Basque, Catalan, Galician and Spanish were presented and distributed in Iberspeech 2012.

More than 150 industrial researchers, journalists and academics attended the event.

There was a METANET4U permanent booth at the entrance of the main conference room. In addition, a poster presentation of the results of the four LWPs received quite a lot visitors. Authors of the four LWPs participate in the event and in the poster presentation.

 

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ULX participation at the national ICT trade fair and APDC congress with a promotional booth

Lisbon, Portugal, 21st and 22th of November, 2012

This year, the ULX participated once again in the APDC Congress and largest ICT trade fair targeted at the industry sector in Portugal.

The 22nd Communications Congress, organized by APDC - Portuguese Association for the Development of Communication, was held in Lisbon, in November, 21-22, 2012.

 

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ULX: The Portuguese White Paper launch took place during the International Workshop: "The Portuguese Language in the Digital Age", held by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon last November 16, 2012, at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon.

Lisbon, Portugal, 16th November, 2012

The International Workshop: "The Portuguese Language in the Digital Age" attended by about 80 participants, had representatives from different areas from the politics of language responsible to LT industry. The workshop and the presentation of the Language White Paper had a live streaming presentation.

 

2012/11/26 ULX: Portuguese White Paper press campaign.

 

Articles and interviews are the result of the workshop dissemination and the press release about the Language White Paper.

 

 

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META-NET promotional booth at the Translating and the Computer Conference

November, 2012

The University of Manchester will have a META-NET promotional booth at the Translating and the Computer Conference, which will be taking place in London between the 29th and 30th of November, 2012.

For more information please visit the conference site here.

 

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Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza and the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence "Mihai Drăgănescu", Romanian Academy White Paper Press Campaign

Romania, October, 2012

The UAIC and RACAI have set in motion a Language White Paper Press campaign. Here are the press coverage of this effor:

 

  • Curentul published the article "Tehnologii lingvistice - performanţe şi perspective".
    The article is available here.

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  • Radio Romãnia Actualitţţi "Cultivarea limbii e necesarţ şi în spaţiul digital".

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  • Article published at Manager.ro "Limbile europene ar putea disparea din mediul online".
    Article available here.

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  • Cronica de Iasi published the article "Cel putin 21 de limbi europene, printre care si limba romana, sunt in pericol de disparitie din spatiul digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • Article "Cel puţin 21 de limbi europene, printre care şi cea romãnţ, sunt ĩn pericol" published at Ora de Iasi.
    The article is available here.

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  • Stiri.Botosani.ro published the article "Limba romãnţ ar putea DISPĂREA din spaţiul digital".
    The article is available here.

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  • Buna Ziua Iasi published the article "21 de limbi, printre care si romana, in pericol de disparitie din spatiul digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • Ziare.com published the article "Romana, printre limbile europene cu risc ridicat de disparitie in spatiul digital".
    The article can be read here.

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  • inCampus published the article "Cel puţin 21 de limbi europene, printre care şi limba romãnţ, sunt ĩn pericol de dispariţie din spaţiul digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • Buna Ziua Iasi published the article "Cercetatorii ieseni cred ca limba romana este pe cale de disparitie".
    The article can be read here.

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  • Ziarul de Iasi published the article "Limba romana: risc ridicat de disparitie din spatiul digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • 360-UAIC published the article "Cel puţin 21 de limbi europene, printre care şi limba romãnţ, sunt ĩn pericol de dispariţie din spaţiul digital".
    The article is available here.

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  • Cultural Romania Radio - Second (follow up) interview with Dan Tufiş.
    This interview is available here.

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  • Romanian Actuality Radio (the widest coverage in Romania) - Interview with Dan Tufiş.

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  • Cultural Romania Radio - Interview with Dan Tufiş.
    The interview is available here.

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  • REALITATEA published the article "Limba romana RISCA SA DISPARA din spatiul digital"
    The article is available here.

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  • Romania Libera published the article "Limba romãnţ ar putea DISPĂREA din spaţiul digital. Aflţ de ce!".
    This article is available here.

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  • Buna Ziua Iasi published the article "Limba romana RISCA SA DISPARA din spatiul digital".
    The article is available here.

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  • REALITATEA published the article "Limba romãnţ ar putea DISPĂREA din spaţiul digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • Vocea Rusiei published the article "Va duce Internetul la Apocalipsa limbilor?".
    The article can be read here.

 

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University of Manchester (UNIMAN) White Paper Press Campaign

United Kingdom, October, 2012

The University of Manchester have set in motion a Language White Paper Press campaign. Here are the press coverage of this effor:

 

  • The website PhysOrg published the article "Most European languages in danger of digital extinction".
    The article is available here.

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  • ABC published the article "La mayoría de las lenguas europeas, en peligro de la extinción digital". This article is available here.

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  • The article "Lenguajes europeos, en peligro de extinción digital" was published by the El Economista
    The article can be viewed here.

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  • Süddeutsche Zeitung published the article "Digitales Aussterben"
    This article is available here.

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  • Science Codex published the article "Most European languages in danger of digital extinction".
    The article is available here.

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  • Article "Most European Languages Face 'Digital Extinction', Say University Of Manchester Researchers" published on the Huffington Post.
    Article available at the Huffington Post website.

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  • Eureka Alert published article "Most European languages in danger of digital extinction".
    The article is available here.

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  • Article "Most European Languages Face 'Digital Extinction'" published by the news website News 168.
    This article is available here.

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  • e! Science news published the article "Most European languages in danger of digital extinction".
    The article can be read here.

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  • Business Balla published the article "Most European languages in danger of digital extinction".
    This article is available here.

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  • Article "Most European languages in danger of digital extinction" published by I 4 U News.
    The article can be read here.

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  • Interesting Tech published the article "".
    This article is available here.

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  • The website My Science published the article "Most European languages in danger of digital extinction".
    The article can be read here.

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  • Article "Most European languages in danger of digital extinction" published at NewsPri website.
    The article is available here.

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  • Voice of Russia UK edition published article "Over 20 European languages face digital extinction".
    This article is available here.

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  • The Engineering and Technology Magazine published the article "Many European languages face digital extinction".
    The article is available at the E&T website.

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  • Science Daily published the article "Most European Languages in Danger of Digital Extinction, Study Finds".
    The article can be accessed here.

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  • Tech News World podcast titled "Language on the Net: What We've Got Here Is a Failure to Communicate".
    The podcast can be listened to here.

 

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University of Lisbon White Paper Press Campaign

Portugal, October, 2012

The University of Lisbon have set in motion a Language White Paper Press campaign. Here are the press coverage of this effor:

 

  • The website Rádio Voz da Rússia published the article "No limiar do apocalipse linguístico" by Marina Volkova.
    The article is available here.

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  • The website ticMAIS published the article "Línguas europeias menos faladas em perigo de extinção no mundo digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • The blog Evolução da Leitura Online by Aracy Campos Published the entry "Línguas europeias estão ameaçadas de extinçáo digital"
    This blog is available here.

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  • Tek Sapo published the article "Línguas europeias menos faladas em perigo de extinção no mundo digital".
    This article can be read here.

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  • Ventos da Lusofonia website published the article "Línguas europeias ameaçadas de “extinção digital”, diz estudo"
    The article is available here.

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  • The blog Agência Gancho published the article "Línguas em Extinção na Internet"
    The article is available here.

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  • The website Tech in Tech published the article "línguas europeias estão ameaçadas de extinção digital".
    This article can be read here.

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  • The article "Línguas europeias estão ameaçadas de extinção digital" was published in the Terra Brasil portal.
    The article can be accessed here.

 

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Observatory of the Portuguese Language recommends the NLX group webpage

Lisbon, 4th of October, 2012

The OLP - Observatory of the Portuguese Language recommended as a webpage of interest, the site of NLX- Natural Language and Speech Group of the Department of Informatics of the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences.

The recomendation is available here.

 

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Universitat Polit&e;cnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) White Paper Press Campaign

Spain, October, 2012

The UPC and UPF universities have set in motion a Language White Paper Press campaign. Here are the press coverage of this effor:

 

  • The newspaper La Vanguardia published the article "El catalán, el euskera y el gallego, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio"
    The article is available at the La Vanguardia website.

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  • The newspaper El Economista published the article "El catalán, el euskera y el gallego, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio".
    This article is available at El Economista website.

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  • Article with the title "Un estudio señala el riesgo de "extinción digital" del gallego, euskera y catalán" published by the El Correo Gallego newspaper.
    The article is available at El Correo Gallego webpage.

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  • The newspaper 20 Minutos published an article with the title "Un estudio señala el riesgo de "extinción digital" del gallego, euskera y catalán"
    This article is available at the 20 Minutos webpage.

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  • The digital newspaper Qué.es published an article with the title "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio".
    The article is available at Qué.es webpage.

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  • The article with the title "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinci&oaacute;n digital" según un estudio" was published by Informativos Telecinco.
    Available at Informativos Telecinco website.

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  • Article "Catalán, euskera y gallego, en riesgo de "extinción digital" " was published by the Europa Press.
    This article can be read at the Europa Press website.

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  • Article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinci&oaacute;n digital" según un estudio" published by the Europa Press. Article available at the Europa Press webpage.

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  • The website Terra.es published the article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio ".
    This article is available at the Terra.es website.

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  • Article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio " published at the Yahoo! España website.
    The article is available at the Yahoo! España website.

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  • The article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio" was published at lainformacion.com.
    This article is available here.

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  • The news webpage Gente Digital published the article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio".
    The article is available at the Gente Digital webpage.

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  • The article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio " was published on the La Voz Libre website.
    This article is available at the La Voz Libre website.

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  • The website TeInteresa published the article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio".
    The article can be read here.

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  • The news site Interbusca has published the article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio".
    This article is available at the Interbusca webpage.

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  • The news website SIGLO XXI published the article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio".
    The article can be read at the SIGLO XXI webpage.

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  • The website Globedia published the article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio".
    This article is available here.

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  • The article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio" was published on the Noticias.com website.
    This article can be read at the Noticias.com webpage.

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  • The news website MATERIA published the article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán están en peligro de extinción digital".
    The article is available at the MATERIA website.

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  • The website TRIBUNA SUR published the article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán están en peligro de extinción digital".

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  • The website Rentable has a page dedicated to the article "21 idiomas europeos, en peligro de extinción digital".
    The index page is available here.

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  • El periódico published the article "21 idiomas europeos, en peligro de extinción digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • Iberoamérica has a reference to "21 idiomas europeos, en peligro de extinción digital".
    This reference is located here.

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  • Inagist.

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  • The news site La Información published the article "21 idiomas europeos, en peligro de extinción digital".
    This article is available at the La Información site.

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  • Mund2teckno has a reference to the article "21 idiomas europeos, en peligro de extinción digital".
    This reference can be read here. The website Radio HC published an article with the title "En peligro de extinción digital 21 idiomas europeos".
    This article can be read here.

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  • The article 21 idiomas europeos, en peligro de extinción digital" was published in the Nanduti website.
    The article is available at the Nanduti webpage

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  • Europa Press published an article with the title "Catalán, euskera y gallego, en riesgo de "extinción digital"".
    This article is available at the Europa Press website.

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  • The news website La opinión Coruña published the article "Catalán, euskera y gallego, en riesgo de "extinción digital"".
    The article is available here.

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  • El Correo Gallego published the article "Un estudio señala el riesgo de "extinción digital" del gallego, euskera y catalán".
    This article is available at the El Correo Gallego website.

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  • The website Que es Coruña published the article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio".
    The article is available here.

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  • Tendencias 21 published the article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital" según un estudio".
    This article is available here.

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  • Europa Press published an article on "21 idiomas europeos, en peligro de extinción digital".

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  • The webpage Codigo Cero published an article with the title "Un informe alerta de que o galego está ameazado no dixital".
    The article is available at the Codigo Cero webpage.

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  • Praza published an article with the title "O galego atópase en risco de "extinción dixital"".
    This article is available here.

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  • The newpaper Atlantico Diario (Vigo) published an article with the title "Ell gallego está en peligro de extinción digital".
    A scan of the article is available here.

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  • The newspaper La Voz de Galicia published an article with the title "El gallego, entre las 21 lenguas en peligro".
    A scan of this article is available here.

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  • The webpage Kazeta.info published the article "Europako 21 hizkuntza, gutxienez, digitalki iraungitzeko arriskaun".
    The article is available here.

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  • Getxoko Berritzeguneko Hizkuntza Normalkuntzako published an article with the title " Europako 21 hizkuntza, gutxienez, digitalki iraungitzeko arriskuan".
    The article is available here.

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  • Europa press.es, euskeraz published the article "Europako 21 hizkuntza, gutxienez, digitalki iraungitzeko arriskuan daudela dio azterketa batek".
    This article is available at here.

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  • The article "Europako 21 hizkuntza, gutxienez, digitalki iraungitzeko arriskuan" was published by Noticias UPV/EHU.
    The article is avalilable at the Noticias UPV/EHU webpage.

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  • Sustatu.com Interneteko Albistegia published the article "Europako 21 hizkuntza, gutxienez, digitalki iraungitzeko arriskuan".
    This article is available here.

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  • The article "Idiomas en peligro de extinción digital" was published by the Diario Vasco.
    The article is available here.

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  • Deia new website published the article "Un estudio de la UPV/EHU alerta del peligro de extinción digital del euskera".
    This article is available here.

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  • El correo digital published the article "El euskera se sitúa en «alto riesgo de extinción digital»".
    The article can be read here.

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  • The channel 324 passed a piece with the title "La bona salut del català a la xarxa".
    The piece is available here.

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  • Ecodiario published the article "La mayoría de lenguas europeas, en peligro de extinción digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • El Economista published the article "Lenguajes europeos, en
 peligro de extinción digital"
    The article is available here.

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  • Reuters published the article "La mayoría de lenguas europeas, en peligro de extinción digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • La Información published the article "Un estudio alerta del peligro de extinción digital del euskera".
    The article is available here.

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  • Terra published the article "El euskera y el catalán son lenguas europeas con "alto riesgo" de extinción digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • The website Terra published the article "La mayoría de lenguas europeas, en peligro de extinción digital".
    The article is available here.

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  • 20 minutos website published the article "El euskera y el catalán son lenguas europeas con "alto riesgo" de extinción digital".
    The article can be read here.

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  • Actualidad Universitaria published the article "26 de septiembre - Día europeo de las lenguas".
    This article is available here.

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  • The article "La mayoría de las lenguas europeas estarían en peligro de extinción digital" was published at the America economía webpage.
    The article is available here.

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  • COIT site published the article "21 idiomas europeos, en peligro de extinción digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • Deia published the article "Un estudio de la UPV/EHU alerta del peligro de extinción digital del euskera".
    The article is available here.

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  • Deia published the article "El euskera, una de las lenguas europeas con un "alto riesgo" de extinción digital".
    The article is available here.

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  • The article "Saltan las alarmas: el 70% de los idiomas europeos están en peligro de extinción digital" was published by the Diario Crítico.
    The article is available here.

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  • EITB published the article "Un estudio alerta del peligro de extinción digital del euskera".
    This article is available here.

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  • El periédico de Mexico published the online article "La mayoría de lenguas europeas, en peligro de extinción digital".
    The article is available here.

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  • Galiciaé published the article "El gallego, entre las 21 lenguas europeas en peligro de extinción digital". The article is available at the Galicaé website.

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  • The news site La Región published the article "El gallego se sitúa entre los 21 idiomas de Europa en peligro de extinción digital".
    The article is available here.

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  • Milenio published the article "80 lenguas europeas, en peligro de extinción digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • La Nación published the article "21 idiomas europeos están en peligro de extinción digital".
    The article is available here.

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  • The site RRHH Press published the article "Internet y el mundo digital sitúan a las lenguas catalana, gallega y vasca en alto riesgo de extinción".
    The article can be read here.

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  • Tendencias 21 published the article "El gallego, el euskera y el catalán están en peligro de extinción digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • Boga Hitza website published the article "Europako 21 hizkuntza,digitalki desagertzear".
    The article is available here.

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  • Arqia published the article "Euskarak eta Europako beste 20 hizkuntzak ez dute euskarri digitalean irauteko nahikoa babes".
    This article can be read here.

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  • The article "Europako 21 hizkuntza, gutxienez, digitalki iraungitzeko arriskuan" published by Zuzeu.
    The article is available here.

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  • The site La Nación published the article "La dotación tecnológica es crucial en todo idioma".
    This article can be read here.

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  • Erabili published the article "Europako 21 hizkuntza, gutxienez, digitalki iraungitzeko arriskuan".
    This article is available here.

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  • The newspaper La Región (Ourense) published the article "El gallego se sitúa entre los 21 idiomas de Europa en peligro de extinción digital"
    A scan from this article is available here.

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  • The newspaper Faro de Vigo published the article "Los idiomas gallego, euskera y catalán, en riesgo de "extinción digital"".
    A scan from this article is available here.

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  • Radio RACC1 Interviewed Asunción Moreno.

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  • Radio Barcelona interviewed Asunción Moreno.

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  • Radio Onda Vasca interviewed Inma Hernáez.

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  • Television TV3.
    The piece can be viewed here.

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  • Television Canal 3/24 interview to Asunción Moreno.

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  • UPC e-informacions
    Available here.

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  • Expansión published the article "El vasco y el catalán no tienen quien les escriba...en la web".
    The article is available here.

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  • Diario de Palenque published the article "80 lenguas, en peligro de extinción digital".
    This article is available here.

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  • Terra website published the article "Mayoría de lenguas europeas, en peligro de extinción digital".
    The article can be accessed here.

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  • ABC website published the article "La mayoría de lenguas europeas, en peligro de extinción digital".
    This article is available here.

 

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University of Malta White Paper Press Campaign

Malta, October, 2012

The University of Malta has set in motion a Language White Paper Press campaign. Here are the press coverage of this effor:

 

  • Article published in the University of Malta portal, "At Least 21 European Languages in Danger of Digital Extinction".
    Available at University of Malta - Home page/News (English)

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  • Article "The European Day of Languages: at least 21 European Languages (including Maltese) in Danger of Digital Extinction" published at the Merlin Publishers portal.
    Available at Merlin Publishers (English)

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  • Article with title "Il-lingwi Ewropej fl-era diġitali" published in the Maltese digital newspaper Nazzjon (Maltese)

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  • Article with title "Mill-inqas 21 Lingwa Ewropea huma f'Periklu ta' Estinzjoni Diġitali" published in the maltese newspaper L'orizzont (Maltese)

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  • The article "European Day of Languages: META-NET study about Europe's languages in the digital age" was published in the International Association of Maltese Linguistics portal.
    It is available here.

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  • The article titled "Il-Jum Ewropew tal-Lingwi / Mill-inqas 21 Lingwa Ewropea huma f'Periklu ta' Estinzjoni Diāitali" was published at the National Council for the Maltese Language Home page (Maltese).
    This article is available at the ational Council for the Maltese Language - Home page (Maltese).

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  • The article "Maltese is at risk of 'digital extinction' / Just 6.5% type in Maltese online" was publised by the Times of Malta in October 1, 2012.
    This article is avilable at the Times of Malta Page.

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  • The Times of Malta newspaper published an article about the Maltese Language White paper with the title "Maltese in a digital age".
    The article can be found here.

 

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Paper The Spanish DELPH-IN Grammar published

Spain, 21st of September, 2012

Montserrat Marimon. The Spanish DELPH-IN Grammar, Language Resources and Evaluation. 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s10579-012-9199-7 The article "The Spanish DELPH-IN Grammar by Montserrat Marimon, presents a Spanish grammar implemented in the Linguistic Knowledge Builder system and grounded in the theoretical framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The grammar is being developed in an international multilingual context, the DELPH-IN Initiative, contributing to an open-source repository of software and linguistic resources for various Natural Language Processing applications.

 

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metanet4u project sponsors the 11th international workshop on treebanks and linguistic theories (tlt)

Lisbon, from 30th of november to the 1st of december, 2012

The tlt serves as a venue for new and ongoing research on the topic of linguistics and treebanks. tlt'11 will take place in lisbon, portugal, between the 30th of november and the 1st of december, 2012, and it will be hosted by the centro de linguística da universidade de lisboa (clul) at the university of lisbon.

 

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Article published in MONOCLE Magazine

Magazine MONOCLE (issue 57, volume 06), October, 2012

The October issue of MONOCLE says "Olá" to the world, as they look how speaking Portuguese is becoming the rising language of trade, diplomacy, sports and culture.

 

Through several pages on the magazine, many articles show the Portuguese-speaking community in numerous countries continents, focusing on the fact that there is a huge amount of potential to unleash if powers can be combined.

 

The promotion video for this issue is available here.

 

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Article published in the Portuguese weekly newspaper EXPRESSO

Portugal, 14th of July, 2012

The weekly Portuguese newspaper EXPRESSO published on the 14th of July (and 22th of July for the digital version), an article with the title O português vai ser uma língua internacional? — The Portuguese will be an international language?
This article shows the strong position of the Portuguese language in the world as an international language and refers to its growing economic value. Explains why in the future one of the biggest assets of the Portuguese language can be its economic weight in the new emerging markets.
Art. "O português vai ser uma língua internacional?", EXPRESSO, 14 de julho2012, Primeiro Caderno, Especial: 10 Grandes Questões.

 

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Talk at 3rd MI Conference on Text Mining Methods (TMM)

Edinburgh, UK, 9th of July, 2012

John McNaught gave a talk entitled "Text Mining: Variety, validity and evaluation" at the 3rd MI Conference on Text Mining Methods (TMM), held at the London School of Economics and Political Sconce on 9th - 10th July 2012. The conference was aimed at promoting text mining tools and methods to social researchers. META-NET was introduced during the presentation.

 

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Presence at the Catalan Cluster of Language Industries first conference

Barcelona, Spain, 20th of June, 2012

The objectives of the "Asociación Catalana Clúster de las Industrias de la Lengua" are to promote and contribute to the competitiveness of Catalonia's language industry by encouraging partner innovation and improving conditions in the whole sector, in order to favorably meet its globalization needs. The association is addressed to 250 companies and 1.500 working people.

METANET4U attended their presentation meeting on June 20th 2012 and disseminate the project among the attendants.

 

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META-FORUM 2012 - A Strategy for Multilingual Europe

Brussels, Belgium, 20th and 21th of June, 2012

The METANET4U participated in the META-FORUM 2012, the international conference of the META-NET project.

 

More information about the META-FORUM 2012 can be found here.

 

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META-BROWN BAG Talk

York, UK, 14th of June, 2012

As part of the META-BROWN BAG Talks initiative Siva Reddy presented a talk with the title Bootstrapping Dependency Parsing from Web Scale Unstructured Data on the 14th of June at the University of York.

 

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META-RESEARCH Workshop on Advanced Treebanking

Istanbul, Turkey, 22th of May, 2012

António Branco, Marko Tadic, Koenraad De Smedt and Jan Hajic organized the META-RESEARCH Workshop on Advanced Treebanking at LREC 2012 at the 8th international Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012).

 

More information related with this workshop is available here.

 

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Invited talk at the conference Crosslingual Language Technology in service of an integrated multilingual Europe - 20 years on -

Hamburg, Germany, from 4th to the 5th of May, 2012

António Branco delivered an invited talk with the title Language Technology for Portuguese: Progress and Prospects at the Crosslingual Language Technology in service of an integrated multilingual Europe - 20 years on-, which will occur between the 4th and 5th of May of 2012 at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

 

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Invited talk at the conference Crosslingual Language Technology in service of an integrated multilingual Europe - 20 years on -

Hamburg, Germany, from 4th to the 5th of May, 2012

Mike Rosner and Jan Joachimsen delivered an invited talk on Maltese Mixed Language and Multilingual Technology at the Crosslingual Language Technology in service of an integrated multilingual Europe - 20 years on-, which will occur between the 4th and 5th of May of 2012 at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

 

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Forthcoming article published on International Portuguese Language Institute's Magazine

2012

António Branco has an accepted article, with the title The Portuguese Language at the Digital Technology Shock (in Portuguese), to be published on the Revista do Instituto Internacional da Lingua Portuguêsa, the official magazine of the Instituto Internacional da Lingua Portuguesa (IILP).

 

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Invited talk at the Colloquium on the Portuguese Language on the Internet and in the Digital World

Guaramiranga, Brazil, from the 23th to the 26thof April, 2012

António Branco delivered an invited talk with the title The Portuguese Language in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities for Language Science and Technology at the Colloquium on the Portuguese Language on the Internet and in the Digital World organized by the Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa (IILP), which will occur between the 23th and 26th of April at Guaramiranga, Brazil.

The full coverage of the event is available at the UNILAB website.

 

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Invited talk at Universidade Federal Fluminense

Niterói, Brazil, 21th of March, 2012

António Branco delivered an invited talk at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brasil, March 21, 2012, with the title Tecnologia da Linguagem: Desafios, Avanços e Oportunidades — Language Technology: Challenges, Advances and Opportunities.

 

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Interview on Campus FM

Msida, Malta, February, 2012

Mike Rosner and Jan Joachimsen were interviewed by the Radio Campus FM of the University of Malta by Ms. Patricia Camilleri.
The interview had a special focus on the METANET4U project, its presentations, goals and results.

 

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The CDEUL website published the press release about the participation of the University of Lisbon with a promotional stand at national ICT trade fair and congress

Lisbon, Portugal, 2012

The CDEUL - European Documentation Centre of the University of Lisbon website published a reference announcing the presentation of META-SHARE and META-NET in the 21st Communications Congress, the largest ICT trade congress and fair, organized by APDC - Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications, last 23-24 November, 2011, in Lisbon, Portugal.

 

The press release is available here.

 

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The APDC brochure of the 21st Communications Congress published a reference about the ULX's participation in their ICT congress

Lisbon, Portugal, 2012

The APDC - Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications brochure of the 21st Communications Congress published a reference about the participation of the University of Lisbon presenting META-SHARE, in the Innovation Lounge area with an exhibition stand, last 23-24 November, 2011, in Lisbon, Portugal.

 

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The Faculty of Sciences website published in the Agenda the press release about the participation of the University of Lisbon with a promotional stand at national ICT trade fair and congress

Lisbon, Portugal, 2012

The Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon website published a reference announcing the presentation of META-SHARE and META-NET in the 21st Communications Congress, the largest ICT trade congress and fair, organized by APDC - Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications, last 23-24 November, 2011, in Lisbon, Portugal.

 

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The APDC's Communications Journal published an article about the ULX presentation of META-SHARE and META-NET at the 21st APDC Communications Congress

Lisbon, Portugal, February, 2012

The APDC's (Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications) Communications Journal in February 2012 published an article in Portuguese about the ULX presentation of META-SHARE and META-NET at the last APDC Communications Congress and fair. ULX participated in the exhibition room Innovation Lounge, an exhibition area dedicated to innovative products and services and networking with and among companies, in the APDC Communications Congress, the largest ICT and New Media trade fair targeted at the industry sector held in Portugal.

 

The article is available in digital format here, the reference to METANET4U is in page 77-78.

 

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METANET4U project presentation at the Center for Language and Speech Technologies and Applications (TALP)

Barcelona, Spain, December, 2011

A METANET4U project presentation was held at the Center for Language and Speech Technologies and Applications (TALP) in Barcelona, Spain.
The attendants were mainly s, researchers and students of the institution.

 

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Invited Talk at Brasília Symposium on Multilingualism and Cyberspace

Brasília, Brazil, between the 7th and 9th of November, 2011

António Branco delivered an invited talk on METANET at 2nd International Symposium on Multilingualism and Cyberspace at Brasília, Brazil, between the 7th and 9th November, 2011.

 

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Participation in the Portuguese national ICT trade fair and congress

Lisbon, Portugal, between the 23th and 24th of November, 2011

Participation in the 21st Communications Congress, organized by APDC — Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications, Lisbon, Portugal, from 23th to the 24th of November, 2011.

Exhibition stand with a presentation of META-SHARE and META-NET in the APDC Congress, the largest ICT trade fair targeted at the industry sector in Portugal, Lisbon, between the 23th and 24th of November of 2011; the stand is in the exhibition room Innovation Lounge, an exhibition area dedicated to innovative products and services and to networking with and among ICT and New Media companies.

 

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The digital newspaper Diario Digital of University of Vigo published an article about the Language White Paper on Galician

Vigo, Spain, November, 2011

The digital newspaper of the University of Vigo, the Diario Digital of University of Vigo published an article about the Language White Paper on Galician.

 

The article is available here.

 

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The newspaper Atlántico Diario published an article about the Language White Paper on Galician

Vigo, Spain, November, 2011

The Galician newspaper Atlántico Diario published an article about the Language White Paper on Galician.

 

The article is available here.

 

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The newspaper Diario de Pontevedra published an article about the Language White Paper on Galician

Vigo, Spain, November, 2011

The Galician newspaper Diario de Pontevedra published an article about the Language White Paper on Galician.

 

The article is available here.

 

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The digital newspaper ABC.es published an article about the Language White Paper on Galician

Vigo, Spain, November, 2011

The digital newspaper ABC.es published an article about the Language White Paper on Galician.

 

The article is available here.

 

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The newspaper Vigo al minuto published an article about the Language White Paper on Galician

Vigo, Spain, November, 2011

The digital newspaper Vigo al minuto published an article about the Language White Paper on Galician.

 

The article is available here.

 

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The Autumn Workshop of the Computer Science Doctoral School of UAIC

Iași, Romania, 28th of October, 2011

The METANET4U project was disseminated at the Autumn Workshop of the Computer Science Doctoral School of UAIC, at the Faculty of Computer Science of the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași, Romania, in the 28th of October.

 

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META-FORUM 2011

Budapest, Hungary, between the 27th and the 28th of October, 2011

The METANET4U project representatives and researchers participated in the META-FORUM 2011 - Solutions for Multilingual Europe international conference.

 

More information about the META-FORUM can be found here.

 

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META-NET press release published in the Maltese newspaper Nazzjion

Malta, 26th of September, 2011

The newpaper Nazzjion published the META-NET press release, a document compiled by the UOM and John Judge, the META-NET CIO. This document has as objective to contribute to a concerted Europe-wide effort to raise awareness of LT and multilingualism through our work on the Language Whitepapers.

 

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META-NET press release published in the Maltese newspaper L'Orrizzont

Malta, 26th of September, 2011

The newpaper L'Orrizzont published the META-NET press release, a document compiled by the UOM and John Judge, the META-NET CIO. This document has as objective to contribute to a concerted Europe-wide effort to raise awareness of LT and multilingualism through our work on the Language Whitepapers.

 

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META-NET press release published in the Maltese Publishing House Midsea Books website

Malta, 26th of September, 2011

Mr. Thomas Pace, Executive Secretary at the Council for the Maltese Language, circulated an email with this PR to their contact list.

 

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META-NET press release disseminated by the Executive Secretary of the Council for the Maltese Language

Malta, 26th of September, 2011

Malta's leading publisher Midsea Books has published the META-NET press release on their site on the 26th of September.

 

The press release is available here (in Maltese).

 

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META-NET press release was made available at the site of the University of Malta

Malta, 26th of September, 2011

The University of Malta published the Maltese META-SHARE press release available at their site.

 

The press release is available here (in Maltese).

 

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META-NET press release was made available at the site of The International Association of Maltese Linguistics

Malta, 26th of September, 2011

The International Association of Maltese Linguistics published the Maltese META-SHARE press release available at their site.

 

The press release is available here (in Maltese).

 

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Minister of Education, Employment and the Family circular divulging the META-NET project

Malta, 26th of September, 2011

Ms Anna Maria Gilson, Service Manager at the Directorate for Educational Services, sent a letter circular to all Heads of School (State and Non-State) & Sections in Malta. Both versions of the release on the Language White Paper for Maltese have been read during the Assembly.

 

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Creating of a Facebook page for METANET4U-Malta

Malta, August, 2011

A Facebook page for the METANET4U-Malta is now available here.

 

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Course with the title "Language Technology and Business Models"

Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1st of September, 2011

Course with the title "Language Technology and Business Models"

 

Taught by António Branco at the International Summer School EUROLAN,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1th of September, 2011.

 

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Organization of the International Summer School EUROLAN

Cluj-Napoca, Romania, between the 28th of August and the 4th of September, 2011

METANET event organized by António Branco, Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide and Dan Tufiș with the participation, among others, of the MetaNord (Andrej Vasiljevs), CESAR (Tamás Varadi) and MetaNet4U (António Branco) project coordinators.

 

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M4U Brown Bag Talks

Starting June, 2011

Launched on June 2011, the META BROWN BAG TALKS are informal gatherings for discussion about a topic with connection to METANET4U. Lunch consumption (in a brown bag, of course) is an optional activity during the talk.
The model of Brown Bag Lunches was an initiative taken by the Computer Science department within the University of Malta for informal talks given by graduate students, post-docs, and regular or visiting faculty.

The purpose of these talks is to give people an opportunity to present topics and to receive feedback (and, of course, participants can eat their lunch at the same time). Speakers may give talks simply to discuss interesting issues and results or to educate department members on some area of research.

We like to have a speaker every Monday; as a goal, speakers try to limit their talk to 1/2 hour, although the lecture and Q&A portion of the talk can run for a whole hour.

  List of Talks:

 

1. UIMA Framework for LT Workflows

Speaker: Andrew Attard, Project Officer METANET4U

Date & Location: Tuesday 21st June, Room 208, CS Building, 12.00-13.00

Click here to see the Pdf presentation.

 

2. The Effect of Polysemy in Compositional Semantics

Speaker: Siva Reddy, Researcher - University of York

Date & Location: Monday 31st October, Lab C, 14.00-15.00

Click here to see the Pdf presentation.

 

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Talk on the Alba-Iulia Business Forum

Romania, 17th and 18th of May, 2011

Dan Tufiș gave an invited talk at the Alba-Iulia Business Forum about the METANET4U and the META-NET projects.

 

On 17-18 May 2011 Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in partnership with World Trade Center Institute, Steinbeis Foundation from Baden-Wurtemberg and County Council of Alba-Iulia organized the Alba-Iulia Business Forum, an action within the EU Strategy for the Danube region with 5 thematic working groups: turism, health, research and innovation, agricultural industry and education. The forum enjoyed a high level attendance (more than 120 participants): EU representatives, members of the EU parliament, the Presidential adviser on EU policies-the former EU Commissioner on Multilinguality, members of the Romanian Parliament, members of the Romanian government, presidents of counties of Danubian regions, universities, directors of research institutes, CEOs of international companies, etc.

 

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