European Language Data Space (LDS) workshop in Luxembourg

 

                                                  

 

The European Language Data Space (LDS) and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) are bringing together experts from the Language Data Industry, Public Administration and Research to discuss the importance and the challenges of language data for the development of Language Technologies and AI-based tools in Luxembourg.

LDS aims at building a trustworthy and effective data market for the exchange of language resources in the public and – even more importantly – in the private sector in line with the EU Data Strategy, which aims to make the EU a leader in a data-driven society. Data-driven innovation can bring major and concrete benefits, such as personalised medicine, improved mobility, better policymaking and upgrading public services.

Objectives

The aim of this workshop is to discuss about the needs of Luxembourgish stakeholders, both from private and public sector language data with regards to data creation, collection, and sharing. Large language models (LLMs) are the most important breakthrough in AI in the last 15-20 years. In the workshop we will talk among others, about the power in human intelligence, NLP for low resource languages, bias in LLMs, and multilingual machine translation. In the workshop we will have four talks and two panels.

Public

The workshop is open to everybody and is mainly addressed to data owners and data providers, LT developers and SMEs, as well as to public administration executives, officers and partners.

Programme

09:00-09:15 Coffee & Croissants
09:15-09:30

Welcome
by Dimitra Anastasiou - LIST

09:30-10:00

European Commission: The Digital Europe Programme and the Common European Language Data Space
by Philippe Gelin - European Commission

10:00-10:30

European Language Data Space: developing a market for language data and services and benefitting from a joint European effort
by Georg Rehm - DFKI and LDS Coordinator

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-11:15

NLP For Low-Resource Languages
by Fred Philippy - Zortify

11:15-11:45

The humans in the machines. How do thousands of average people actively and consciously contribute to a more reliable and less biased AI.
by Alexandros Poulis - Dataforce - Transperfect

11:45-12:15

Panel Discussion: Language Data and Language Technologies in Luxembourg and for Luxembourgish
Moderated by Dimitra Anastasiou - LIST
Panelists: Gauthier Crommelinck - Ministry of the Economy | Fred Philippy - Zortify | Alexandros Poulis - Dataforce

12:15-13:30

Lunch break - provided on site

13:30-14:00

Large Language Model Bias dashboard
by Jordi Cabot - LIST

14:00-14:30

Training large scale decoders for multilingual machine translation
by Raheel Qader - Lingua Custodia

14:30-14:45

Coffee Break

14:45-15:15

Panel Discussion: Data for the Languages of Luxembourg. Which challenges do we face and how can we overcome these?
Moderated by Daniele Pagani - LIST
Panelists: Cédric Lothritz - LIST | Yves Maurer - Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg | Christopher Morse - Zenter fir d'Lëtzebuerger Sprooch | Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg

15:15-15:30

Discussion and Closing remarks

 

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European Language Data Space (LDS) workshop in Luxembourg

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Practical Infos

Date: Wednesday, 19 June 2024 | From 09:00am to 04:00pm

Location: LIST Belvaux | 41 rue du Brill L-4422 Belvaux | Luxembourg

Language: English

Pricing: Participation is free of charge, but registration is required since places are limited. The workshop is in physical mode only.

Deadline: Registration will end on Wednesday 18 June 2024.

Contact: Contact the local organizer, Dimitra Anastasiou, for further details

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