Upcoming events:

CESAR Road show in Poland, September 27–28^th, 2012

I am very pleased to invite you to join the international event “Human Language Technology Days 2012” to be held on September 27-28, 2012 in Warsaw. The event is organised by the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Łódź in the frame of ICT-PSP project CESAR (Central and South-East European Resources, part of META-NET) and is colocated with ICT Proposers’ Day 2012.

Language Technology Days 2012 intends to promote knowledge about language technology, its potential, but also possible threats accompanied with its development, by gathering experts who will try to answer important questions on the future of language and language processing in a globalized digital information society. How does massive digitization of information, knowledge and everyday communication affect our language? Will our language change or even disappear? Will Internet always be divided by the languages of its users?

Another important topic we intend to cover is a Road Show of European language technology, aiming at presenting state-of-the-art, directions and visions of development of language resources and tools for the common scientific and commercial market. Particular attention will be drawn to language technology for Polish by presenting new advances in the field and their application in administration and business as well as involvement of open source and research community in the process of development of language resources.

I sincerely invite you to give an opening address to the event on behalf of the European Commission. I hope that you will find our proposal worth of notice and you will attend the conference and the follow up discussion (please see the programme of the event in general outline).

I wish you a pleasant stay in Warsaw.


With kind regards,

Prof. Jacek Koronacki
Director of the Institute of Computer Science

CESAR road-shows:

Beside the activities targeted to research community, the most important means of enhancing awareness in different communities, i.e., business, society and government will be a series of nationally organized high-level awareness events (a „road show“) that will take place in each country at least once in the project duration.

• Sofia, Bulgaria (2nd May, 2012)
• Bratislava, Slovakia (7th June, 2012)
• Warsaw, Poland (27th September, 2012)
• Belgrade, Serbia (October, 2012)
• Zagreb, Croatia (16th November, 2012)
• Budapest, Hungary (3rd December, 2012)