Major disruption ahead in the language industry!

The Q2 issue of GALAxy, the quarterly newsletter of our partner association GALA, is guest edited by LT-Innovate Chairman Jochen Hummel (@JochenHummel) with a thought provoking piece on how Language Technology will leverage Big Data and transform the industry.

Several other articles are contributed and/or co-authored by LT-Innovate members and partners:

• Big Data and the Translation Industry: Three Technology Challenges by Andrew Joscelyne, LT Innovate
• Finding New Business Segments Through Big Data by Michael Wetzel, Coreon GmbH & Matthias Heyn, SDL plc
• How to Improve Your Relationship with Machine Translation co-authored by Heidi Depraetere, CrossLang
• Unlocking Language Resource Assets by Christian Galinski, Infoterm
• Riga Summit Forges a Unified Vision for Multilingual Europe by Rihards Kalniņš, Tilde

Workshop on Language Resources for Public Security Applications

The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) will be organised end May 2012 by ELRA with the support of a wide range of international associations and organisations. (Pre-conference Workshops: 21-22 May 2012,
Main Conference: 23-24-25 May 2012 and Post-conference Workshops: 26-27 May 2012).

The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones.

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