Language Technology companies are applying for the LT-Innovate Award 2013!

Will your company apply for the LT-Innovate Award 2013? Winning this award will be an important recognition of the excellence you have achieved.

This week is the last opportunity for companies to apply for the Award as the registration closes on 27 May 2013.

From the applications, 30 will be selected to present their activities in front of the audience of the LT-Innovate Summit 2013. An Expert Jury will rate the presentations based on criteria such as Innovation & Technology excellence, Business potential, Team experience, ...

Based on the results of the Jury’s evaluation, the Winners of the LT-Innovate Award 2013 will be designated and celebrated at the Award Ceremony and Gala Dinner on 27 June 2013 at the Thon Hotel in Brussels.

TEMIS unveils Luxid® for Microsoft SharePoint 2013

TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise and member of LT-Innovate network, announced that its Luxid® for SharePoint 2013 integration will become commercially available as of today. Luxid® for SharePoint 2013 is an integration of TEMIS' flagship Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform into SharePoint 2013.

Based on patented and award-winning technology, Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform is a powerful and scalable content enrichment solution that natively supports 20 languages and exploits specialized engines called Skill Cartridges® to automatically extract relevant topics, entities, facts, sentiments, or categories from documents and generate rich metadata. This semantic metadata, stored in SharePoint 2013 columns, is then freely available for use by any application, opening new perspectives for content management, archival, business process automation, analytics and search. Luxid® includes a library of off-the shelf Skill Cartridges® that address areas of recurring interest, as well as a suite of productivity tools that help customize them and create new ones that are relevant to customer business areas.

"This second-generation integration will help enable our customers to deploy semantic enrichment industrially on their SharePoint 2013 farms", said Michaël Domanski, Alliances and Channel Manager, TEMIS. "The domain-specific metadata produced by Luxid® is now available for search services, for the Term Store as well as the entire application layer."

Luxid® for SharePoint 2013 is a second-generation integration that builds on the same foundations as the TEMIS' Luxid® for SharePoint 2010 integration, with significant extensions in key functional areas based on customer feedback:

• Seamless integration with SharePoint 2013
  Luxid® for SharePoint 2013 is a server application that is seamlessly accessed through Web Services, reads documents, extracts relevant metadata based on their Content Type and feeds it into the corresponding SharePoint 2013 columns. This alleviates end-user manual contribution efforts and enhances the quantity and quality of metadata. Depending on governance policies, metadata may remain accessible for end user modification thanks to habitual SharePoint 2013 views. 
• Industrial configuration and deployment
  Thanks to a rich set of configuration interfaces, all relevant Luxid® content enrichment service parameters – such as Content Type definitions, corresponding Managed Metadata and Managed Properties - can be configured through Luxid® for SharePoint 2013 menus, streamlining to a matter of minutes the mechanics of deployment to an entire SharePoint 2013 farm. Luxid® for SharePoint 2013 also preserves the history of manual metadata modifications for audit purposes.
• Advanced Term Store integration
  Luxid® for SharePoint 2013 enables full, two-way integration with the SharePoint Term Store. When implemented in the context of a closed Term Set, Luxid® applies the Term Set to content, enabling precise institutional governance over – managed - metadata through an Enterprise taxonomy. In the case of open Term Sets, Luxid® identifies concepts beyond a pre-ordained list, as they appear in the content, a process that supports the enrichment or feeding of an enterprise taxonomy based on actual enterprise content.
• Native application integration 
  Stored in SharePoint columns, the metadata produced by Luxid® for SharePoint 2013 becomes natively accessible to any application – in particular for content management, business process automation, information access or analytical tasks. As an example, exploiting Managed Properties or Managed Metadata, any SharePoint 2013 search service may seamlessly index this metadata and present rich faceted navigation interfaces structured according to end-users' enterprise taxonomy. Other features that can be built include contextual navigation, content recommendation engines and analytical widgets. 

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Enhanced business and translation process management with the release of LTC Worx 3.0

London, UK and Washington DC, USA – May 13, 2013. Today, LTC announced the immediate availability of LTC Worx 3.0.

The LTC Worx business management solution presents new features to provide even more advanced request management and assisted project workflow automation. Performance has been improved further to enhance the user experience, focusing on an even more complete management environment. The new version remains committed to the LTC Worx philosophy to “automate what you can, control what you need”.

Among other capabilities, the new version includes the following benefits:
•    Superior Task Automation will speed up project management considerably and allow personalized control throughout the end-to-end process.
•    The Project Schedule allows project managers to see all tasks in a calendar view for a better overview of project timelines, increased choice and responsiveness.
•    Improved overall performance of the system achieved by upgrading background code and a finely-tuned database.
•    Centralized data & translation management allows users to request operations using external tools integrated within LTC Worx.
•    Resource assessment & online collaboration
•    Integrated workflow & automatic alerts

About LTC Worx

LTC Worx gives project managers and all other users a single source for status updates, exception handling and similar tasks including advanced communication and project tracking tools. You can produce and manage high volumes of multilingual content and products with a system that is fully customizable and scalable. The ability to manage complex workflows has developed the use of the Translation Memory Automation Module.

The new Task Automation will speed up project management considerably by allowing PMs to automate the transition between translation and revision and any further subsequent tasks. This provides almost full automation especially for small and standard jobs for single and multiple language combinations.

LTC Worx is more than a translation management system (TMS) and acts as the central platform for global information management. The system provides you with many integrated tools that are important to help you run your organization. Easy links into CAT tools, content and document management systems (CMS & DMS) allow you to manage everything, including different file types and project types. Its check-out and check-in, versioning and roll back features mean you have full control over all documents relevant to your project at all times.

Find out what makes LTC Worx different. http://www.ltcinnovates.com/products/ltc-worx

For more information visit www.ltcinnovates.com or contact

Bradley Harrad: Bradley.harrad@ltcinnovates.com
+44-208-549-2359 x103

LTC is a member of LT-Innovate network.

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ICT 2013: Registration open!

ICT 2013, the biggest ICT event in Europe, will be held in Vilnius on 6-8 November, 2013. It will bring together Europe's best & brightest in ICT research, with businesses old & new, web start-ups and digital strategists to chart a path for Europe's ICT research policy. Join us to share your vision for the future with EU policy-makers, and see the latest advances in EU-funded ICT research.

More than 4000 researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, industry representatives, young people and politicians are expected in Vilnius. Registration for the event has just been opened.

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Note to Diary for 26-27 June in Brussels: LT-Innovate is Holding the "Towards the Multilingual Digital Single Market" Summit

LT-Innovate is holding its Summit in Brussels at the end of June with the aim of bringing together the European LT community, review our progress as a community and set the stage for the next concrete steps in building a more integrated language technology vendor community. We’re very excited about this and we very much hope all our members will register, attend and make their voice heard. 

LT-Innovate research estimates that in 2011 the worldwide LT market, including software and services, was worth €19.3B. By 2015, we estimate that this should grow to nearly €30B, much of the growth coming from translation software and services. This is why we are entitling the Summit “Towards the Multilingual Digital Single Market” – a compelling reason for leading LT players to explore ways of ensuring that European companies capture as much as possible of this unique multilingual market. 

Day I will focus on what LT-Innovate as a project has achieved in terms of its business model and administrative setup. In the afternoon we are inviting all the CEOs of our member organisations and selected panellists to explore five key questions about the status and potential of the European LT market. The idea is to confront vision with hard data so that we all operate in terms of a realistic but insightful model of the market we are addressing. 

Day 2 will focus fully on the Summit theme - the challenge of technologically enabling the Multilingual Digital Single Market. Through plenary panel discussions and group discussions, we shall look closely at three key future issues: building LT innovation scenarios for the medium term; creating the European Language Cloud as an enabling LT infrastructure; and constructing core service platforms as collaborative LT marketplaces. 

Innovation is all around us in apps, social media, and cloud content management systems to virtual assistants and automated translation solutions. But all these developments still tend to be fragmented in scope and vision – addressing a market or a country here, a language or two there, this device but not that one, and so on. 

Our research shows that it is time to move beyond fragmented, national marketplaces, and build synergies and commonalities that can lead to productive new technology alliances. We need to break down the “silo” organization of the way language is perceived in our communities, and organize a language industry that can enable any industry, sector or business to improve its competitiveness in Europe’s single marketplace 

Sound like a tough call? Just come and help us make the great leap forward, and launch the European Language Cloud as a powerful catalyst for a language-neutral content market in Europe. 

If you need the backstory to our ideas, please read the LT-I Industry Vision Statement and Market Report, see www.bit.ly/13UAaST). If you don’t agree and have better suggestions, an even better reason to come: we need to hear them! 

Textkernel has the wind in its sails in the Human Resources management Industry

Pôle Emploi, the French national employment agency, has officially announced Textkernel and Accenture as winners of their European tender on integration of semantic technology in CV and job processing. For Pôle Emploi, Textkernel will check whether vacancies meet the legal requirements, in particular in the field of anti-discrimination. Besides job parsing, Textkernel also delivers CV parsing and anonimisation for this assignment.

The new release of Search!, the semantic cv search software from Textkernel, offers besides some new spectacular new features also a new integration with the largest job site of the Netherlands: Jobbird.com. 

On April 24th, Textkernel is organising its second webinar in the field of semantic recruitment technology. This free webinar “Active Sourcing and the role of Technology” will take place online and will be held in English by Jakub Zavrel, CEO of Textkernel. Jakub will take a look at the concept of active sourcing, the road that semantic technology is taking in this subject and the part Textkernel is playing with its semantic search tool ‘Search!‘.

Textkernel is a member of LT-Innovate network.

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