BALTIC IT&T 2004 FORUM: eBaltics
Conference: Human Language Technologies The Baltic Perspective
Radisson SAS Daugava Hotel,
Kuģu 24, Riga, LATVIA
Hall Lielupe
Preliminary CONFERENCE TIME TABLE
Wednesday, April 21
9.30-11.00 Opening Session
Prof. Andrejs Veisbergs, chairman of Commission of the Official Language at the Chancellery of the President of Latvia
Imants Freibergs, Latvian Information Technology and Telecommunications Association (LITTA)
Algirdas Saudargas, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
UNESCO representative
EU representative
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Overview of Human Language Technologies in Baltic
11.30-12.00 Everita Milčonoka, Normunds Grūzītis, Andrejs Spektors Natural Language Processing at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science: Ten Years Later
12.00-12.20 Bronius Tamulynas Language Processing and Multilingual Communication: Lithuanian case
12.20-12.40 Einar Meister Estonian Spoken Language Technology Current Achievements and Future Perspective
12.40-13.00 Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Jana Ķikāne, Raivis Skadiņš Development of HLT for Baltic languages in widely used applications
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Language Corpora and Content Development
14.00-14.20 Rūta Marcinkevičienė, Agnė Bielinskienė, Vidas Daudaravičius,
Erika Rimkutė Corpora for Lithuanian Language Technologies
14.20-14.40 Gertrūda Naktinienė, Jolanta Zabarskaitė About the Linguistic Databases of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language
14.40-15.00 Andrejs Veisbergs Reversal for Building a Big Latvian-English Dictionary
15.00-15.20 Ülle Viks, Margit Langemets Syntactic information in electronic dictionaries: problems and solutions
15.20-15.40 Heili Orav Lexical database of Estonian Estonian wordnet
Introduction of Demonstrations
15.40-15.50 Normunds Grūzītis, Ilze Auziņa, Sanita Bērziņa-Reinsone, Kristīne Levāne-Petrova, Everita Milčonoka, Gunta Nešpore, Andrejs Spektors Demonstration of Resources and Applications at Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, IMCS, UL
15.50-15.55 Eduards Cauna Advanced multilingual terminology dictionary www.termini.lv
15.55-16.00 Raivis Skadiņš, Andrejs Vasiļjevs Multilingual Terminology Portal termini.letonika.lv
16.00 - 16.20 Coffee break
16.00 16.30 Demonstrations
16.20-18.00 Multilingual Language Resources
16.20-16.30 Heli Uibo Syntactically annotated corpora of Estonian
16.30-16.40 Daiva Atkočaitytė, Asta Leskauskaitė Dialect Data Corpora: Information and Publication of the Sources
16.40-16.50 Valentīna Skujiņa, Ilze Ilziņa The Challenges created to Latvian Terminology by Eastward enlargement of European Union
16.50-17.00 Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Kadri Muischnek Frequency Dictionary of Written Estonian of the 1990ies
17.00-17.10 Magdalena Wasielewska, Aleksandra Matulewska Polish-Estonian-English Thematic Electronic Dictionary. Establishing Language Bonds Between the Baltic Countries and the European Union and Other Institutions
17.10-17.20 Sergey Yablonsky Promoting Russian language content in Baltic Cyperspace
17.20-17.30 Kimmo Kettunen Covering morphological variation of Finnish query nouns in a probabilistic best-match IR environment
17.30-17.40 Valērijs Krugļevskis, Ilze Vancāne "Computerised morphological analysis and related disambiguation problems in legal texts in Latvian"
17.40-17.50 Jūratė Mackevičiūtė Lithuanian morphological analysis system and grammar checker: Tildes technologies in practice
17.50-18.00 Mohammad Abid Khan Text and the translation of natural languages
19.30-22.00 Official Reception of the Conference and Baltic IT&T 2004
National Opera of Latvia
Thursday, April 22
9.00-11.00 Official Opening of the Baltic IT&T Forum
HALL Daugava
Plenary Session: Global IT&T Trends and Consequences for Governments and Businesses
11.00-11.20 Coffee break
HALL Lielupe
11.20-13.00 Cross-Lingual und Multilingual Processing
11.20 11.40 Atro Voutilainen Multilingual sentence processing for knowledge-intensive applications
11.40 - 12.00 Hercules Dalianis To search and summarize text in Scandinavia
12.00 12.20 Petr Homola, Jakub Piskorski How can shallow NLP help a machine translation system?
12.20 -12.35 Inguna Skadiņa Machine Translation for Latvian
12.35 -13.00 George Demetriou, Heikki Keskustalo, Inguna Skadiņa, Daiga Deksne Cross-Lingual Document Retrieval, Categorisation and Navigation Based on Distributed Services
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Generating and Understanding Human Speech
14.00- 14.20 Kristiina Jokinen, Björn Gambäck DUMAS Adaptation and robust information processing for mobile speech interfaces
14.20-14.40 Ilze Auziņa Latvian Text-to-Speech System
14.40-15.00 Meelis Mihkla, Hille Pajupuu, Krista Kerge, Jüri Kuusik Prosody modelling for Estonian text-to-speech synthesis
15.00-15.20 Algimantas Rudzionis, Kastytis Ratkevicius, Vytautas Rudzionis Speech recognition research and some applications in Lithuania
15.20-15.40 Sigita Laurinciukaite On different kinds of speech units based isolated words recognition in Lithuanian language
15.40-15.50 Darius Šilingas, Gailius Raškinis, Laimutis Telksnys Review of Lithuanian Speech and Language Processing
15.50-16.00 Olga Gerassimenko, Tiit Hennoste, Mare Koit, Krista Strandson, Andriela Rääbis, Maret Valdisoo, Evely Vutt Annotated Dialogue Corpus as a Language Resource: An Experience of Building the Estonian Dialogue Corpus
16.00-16.20 Coffee break
16.20-18.00 Speech and Language Processing
16.20-16.30 Pijus Kasparaitis Lithuanian diphone databases for the text-to-speech synthesis
16.30-16.40 Gintautas Tamulevičius Dynamic time warping based speech recognition system
16.40-16.50 Kęstutis Driaunys, Vytautas Rudžionis, Pranas Žvinys Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients analysis of Lithuanian phonemes
16.50-17.00 Tanel Alumäe Large Vocabulary Continuous Estonian Speech Recognition Using Pseudo-morphemes
17.00-17.10 Vytautas Zinkevičius Creating of the Electronic Version of the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language
17.10-17.20 Kadri Vider, Neeme Kahusk HLT makes sense in Word Sense Disambiguation of Estonian
17.20-17.30 Dainis Zeps Latin Dictionary Tools in Internet
17.30-17.40 Anni Oja Localization of free software in Estonia
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