META Seal of Recognition and META Prize Award Ceremony

Georg Rehm (DFKI) on behalf of the META Technology Council

and the META-NET Executive Board

META Technology Council

q  Ca. 30 experts of the European LT landscape.q  Defined cross cutting strategies.q  Prepared recommendations for

joint action.q  Prepared and discussed the

META-NET Vision Paper and the “LT2020” document.

q  Presented the META-NET Strategic Research Agenda (SRA).

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META-NET Executive Board

q  Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, UK)q  Núria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)q  António Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)q  Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen, Norway)q  Marko Grobelnik (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)q  Jan Hajič (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic) – Chairq  Monica Monachini (ILC, Italy)q  Stelios Piperidis (R.C. "Athena", Greece)q  Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) – General Secretaryq  Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta)q  Josef van Genabith (DFKI, Germany) – Deputy Chairq  Tamás Váradi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)q  Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia) – Deputy Chairq  François Yvon (LIMSI, France)

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META Seal of Recognition

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META Seal of Recognition

q  Awarded to software products and services that actively contribute to the European Multilingual Information Society.

q  We’re awarding the Seal for the fifth time.

q  3 nominations.

q  2 META Seals of Recognition.

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The META Technology Council proudly award the META Seal of Recognition to

In recognition of software, products, and services which actively contribute to theEuropean Multilingual Information Society.

Hans UszkoreitCo-ordinator of META-NETDFKI, Germany www.meta-net.eu

Georg RehmNetwork Manager of META-NET

DFKI, Germany

On behalf of the META Technology Council On behalf of the META Technology Council

Google Translate by Google Inc.

q  Personal Translator by LinguaTec

q  Reverso by Softissimo

q  SVOX TTSq  Systran7 by Systranq  TAUS Data

Association

q  Google Translateq  Loquendo TTSq  Lucy LT by Lucy

Software & Services GmbH

q  Media Speech by VecSys

q  Vocable Karaoke by VecSys 2011

The META Technology Council proudly award the META Seal of Recognition to

In recognition of software, products, and services which actively contribute to theEuropean Multilingual Information Society.

Hans UszkoreitCo-ordinator of META-NETDFKI, Germany www.meta-net.eu

Georg RehmNetwork Manager of META-NET

DFKI, Germany

On behalf of the META Technology Council On behalf of the META Technology Council

Google Translate by Google Inc.

q  Kantan MTq  EML GmbHq  Voxsigma Software

Suite by Vocapia Research

q  Extract! by Textkernel

q  IRSTLM by FBK

q  Language Weaverq  Phonexia s.r.o.q  Audioma-Box by

PerVoice SpAq  Asia Onlineq  XFST by Xeroxq  IPTranslator by

PLuTO

2012

The META Technology Council proudly award the META Seal of Recognition to

In recognition of software, products, and services which actively contribute to theEuropean Multilingual Information Society.

Hans UszkoreitCo-ordinator of META-NETDFKI, Germany www.meta-net.eu

Georg RehmNetwork Manager of META-NET

DFKI, Germany

On behalf of the META Technology Council On behalf of the META Technology Council

Google Translate by Google Inc.

q  Cereprocq  BlueGriffon by

Disruptive Technologiesq  memoQ by

Kilgray translation Technologies q  MediaTalk by

Tetracom Interactive Solutions

2013

The META Technology Council proudly award the META Seal of Recognition to

In recognition of software, products, and services which actively contribute to theEuropean Multilingual Information Society.

Hans UszkoreitCo-ordinator of META-NETDFKI, Germany www.meta-net.eu

Georg RehmNetwork Manager of META-NET

DFKI, Germany

On behalf of the META Technology Council On behalf of the META Technology Council

Google Translate by Google Inc.

q  LT Innovateq  Translatedq  DBpedia

2015

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The META Technology Council proudly award the META Seal of Recognition to

In recognition of software, products, and services which actively contribute to theEuropean Multilingual Information Society.

www.meta-net.eu

Georg RehmGeneral Secretary of META-NET

DFKI, Germany

On behalf of the META Technology Council On behalf of the META Technology Council

Jan HajičChairman of META-NETCharles University in Prague

Universal Dependencies and UD Treebanks – the multilingual standard and treebanks in several languages, created by a collaboration of many participants under the leadership of Joakim Nivre

Universal Dependenciestreebanks across languages

Thanks all UD contributors!

Željko Agić, Lars Ahrenberg, Maria Jesus Aranzabe, Masayuki Asahara, Aitziber Atutxa, Miguel Ballesteros, John Bauer, Kepa Bengoetxea, Yevgeni Berzak, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Cristina Bosco, Gosse Bouma, Sam Bowman, Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, Giuseppe G. A. Celano, Çağrı Çöltekin, Miriam Connor, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Timothy Dozat, Kira Droganova, Tomaž Erjavec, Richárd Farkas, Jennifer Foster, Daniel Galbraith, Sebastian Garza, Filip Ginter, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, Memduh Gokirmak, Yoav Goldberg, Berta Gonzáles Saavedra, Normunds Grūzītis, Bruno Guillaume, Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Jan Hajič, Dag Haug, Barbora Hladká, Radu Ion, Elena Irimia, Anders Johannsen, Hiroshi Kanayama, Jenna Kanerva, Boris Katz, Hüner Kaşıkara, Jessica Kenney, Simon Krek, Veronika Laippala, Lucia Lam, Alessandro Lenci, Nikola Ljubešić, Olga Lyashevskaya, Teresa Lynn, Aibek Makazhanov, Christopher Manning, David Mareček, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Yuji Matsumoto, Jan Mašek, Ryan McDonald, Anna Missilä, Verginica Mititelu, Yusuke Miyao, Simonetta Montemagni, Keiko Sophie Mori, Shunsuke Mori, Kadri Muischnek, Nina Mustafina, Kaili Müürisep, Cătălina Mărănduc, Vitaly Nikolaev, Joakim Nivre, Hanna Nurmi, Petya Osenova, Lilja Øvrelid, Elena Pascual, Marco Passarotti, Cenel-Augusto Perez, Slav Petrov, Jussi Piitulainen, Barbara Plank, Martin Popel, Lauma Pretkalniņa, Prokopis Prokopidis, Tiina Puolakainen, Sampo Pyysalo, Loganathan Ramasamy, Laura Rituma, Rudolf Rosa, Shadi Saleh, Baiba Saulīte, Sebastian Schuster, Wolfgang Seeker, Mojgan Seraji, Lena Shakurova, Mo Shen, Natalia Silveira, Maria Simi, Radu Simionescu, Katalin Simkó, Kiril Simov, Aaron Smith, Carolyn Spadine, Alane Suhr, Umut Sulubacak, Zsolt Szántó, Takaaki Tanaka, Reut Tsarfaty, Francis Tyers, Sumire Uematsu, Larraitz Uria, Gertjan van Noord, Viktor Varga, Veronika Vincze, Jing Xian Wang, Jonathan North Washington, Daniel Zeman, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Hanzhi Zhu

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The META Technology Council proudly award the META Seal of Recognition to

In recognition of software, products, and services which actively contribute to theEuropean Multilingual Information Society.

www.meta-net.eu

Georg RehmGeneral Secretary of META-NET

DFKI, Germany

On behalf of the META Technology Council On behalf of the META Technology Council

Jan HajičChairman of META-NETCharles University in Prague

Parsey McParseface – the multilingual Open Source parser released by Google

SyntaxNet: Globally Normalized Transition-Based Neural Networks in Tensorflow

Alessandro Presta, Aliaksei Severyn, Andy Golding, Bernd Bohnet, Chris Alberti, Daniel Andor, David Weiss, Emily Pitler, Greg Coppola, Keith Hall,

Kuzman Ganchev, Michael Collins, Michael Ringgaard, Ryan McDonald, Slav Petrov, Stefan Istrate, Terry Koo, Tim Credo

Sparse feature extraction

Embedding + Concatenation

Hidden layers

Softmax

input.word=man

stack.word=the

input.prefix=ma

stack.tag=DET

Feed-Forward SyntaxNet Architecture (Overview)

I saw the man with glasses.

Input/TransitionState (C++) Network (TensorFlow)

Stack Buffer

PRP VBD DET

Sentence w/ partial annotations

I booked a ticket to Google

Stack Buffer

nsubj det

Parsing:

Tagging:

Results from Andor et al. (2016):

POS Tagging:

Dependency Parsing:

META Prize

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META Prize

q  Awarded to outstanding products or services supporting the European Multilingual Information Society.

q  At META-FORUM 2016 we’re awarding the Prize for the fifth time.

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META Prize: Previous Winnersq  2015 META Prize: BabelNet – for groundbreaking work in overcoming language

barriers through a multilingual lexicalised semantic network and ontology making use of heterogeneous data sources.

q  2013 META Prize: The Rosetta Foundation – for their groundbreaking work enabling the global conversation in communities and social localization, making information available to individuals irrespective of their social status, linguistic or cultural background.

q  2012 META Prize: JRC Optima Activity/Language Technology — for the excel-lent use of LT to reduce information overload and overcome language barriers.

q  2011 1st META Prize: Moses — For outstanding and innovative contributions to statistical machine translation.

q  2011 2nd META Prize: Jibbigo Mobile Translators, Jibbigo — For outstanding mobile voice translators bringing speech translation to mobile devices.

q  2011 2nd META Prize: Voxalead, Exalead — For outstanding audio visual search and transcription software and services.

q  2011 2nd META Prize: ELRA — For outstanding long term commitment to the preparation and distribution of language resources and technologies.

q  2011 2nd META Prize: LDC — For outstanding long term commitment to the preparation and distribution of language resources and technologies.

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The META Prize is proudly awarded to

For outstanding and innovative contributions to cross-lingual and multilingual communication technologies. The META Technology Council recognises that this work is an

important cornerstone on the way to enabling the European Multilingual Information Society.

Jan HajičChairman of META-NETCharles University in Prague www.meta-net.eu

Georg RehmGeneral Secretary of META-NET

DFKI, Germany

On behalf of the META Technology Council On behalf of the META Technology Council

InterACT

Congratulations to all winners!

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