LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY SUMMIT 2016 - Language: The New Frontier for Business & Governments

LT-Innovate, the Association of the Language Technology Industry, organizes the 5th edition of the LT Industry Summit in Brussels.
 
BRUSSELS - April 25, 2016 - PRLog -- The LT Industry Summit is the yearly point of convergence between the Language Technology industry, its clients, research partners and policy makers.

At the occasion of the Summit, LT-Innovate will launch of the LTI Cloud, the one-stop-shop platform for making available, discovering, assembling, testing and prototyping language technology components. Jochen Hummel, LT-Innovate Chairman, explains: "On 17 June, we will have the operational launch of the LTI Cloud, a major initiative that has the potential to benefit all our members. The aim of the LTI Cloud is to create a SaaS wrapper around language technology components developed by LT-Innovate members. It will make it easy for entrepreneurs, start-ups, software developers, IT departments, system integrators, and many others to source & plug 'n' play language technology components, allowing them to focus on their core business and competencies."

In addition, the Summit programme will include the following highlights:

·         The LT CEO Summit, a panel discussion with key industry leaders moderated by industry analyst Florian Faes of Slator.com;

·         An industry challenge on Dynamic Knowledge Stores and Machine Translation presented by Elsevier;

·         LT showcases (best practice use cases) in the fields of artificial intelligence, medical devices, market research, publishing and banking;

·         The LT-Innovate Award Ceremony at which LT-Innovate's prestigious yearly award for excellence in language technology will be handed out;

·         Technology, research and project highlights presenting the latest developments in the field of LT;

·         A self-contained workshop on Language Infrastructures and Language Resources: Pulling the Pieces of the Jigsaw Together;

·         A panel discussion with policy makers and funding agencies about renewed policy support for the language technology sector;

·         Keynote speeches by key policy makers (notably from the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Committee of the Regions).

Check out the full programme and register @ http://www.lt-innovate.org/lti-summit

Date: 17 & 18 May 2016

Address: The International Auditorium, Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5/2 - B-1210 Brussels - Belgium

Contact
Philippe Wacker
Secretary General
phw@lt-innovate.eu
0032 2 219 0305
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