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LINGUIST List 23.4513

Tue Oct 30 2012

Confs: Portuguese, Computational Ling, Discourse Analysis, Socioling/Portugal

Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org>

Date: 30-Oct-2012
From: António Branco <Antonio.Brancodi.fc.ul.pt>
Subject: The Portuguese Language in the Digital Age
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The Portuguese Language in the Digital Age

Date: 15-Nov-2012 - 15-Nov-2012
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Contact: António Branco
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://metanet4u.weebly.com/workshop-in-portugal.html

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Portuguese

Meeting Description:

Workshop
The Portuguese Language in the Digital Age

November 15, 2012
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Room 2
Lisbon

Full Information:

For details on the Program, Speakers, Venue, Regsitration, etc., see here:

http://metanet4u.weebly.com/workshop-in-portugal.html

Registration:

Participation in the workshop is open to everyone interested and gratis. Since attendance is limited to the number of seats available, your participation has to be secured by registering here:

http://workshopportugueselanguagedigitalage.eventbrite.com

Objective:

With new and increasingly more powerful technologies, we are communicating with more people, more often and more easily. Critically, these new technologies are not only providing extended carriers for the exchange of linguistic information: they are inducing a deep technological shock in the way languages can be used.

In sharp rupture with the past, we will be using new technological solutions to communicate instantly in our mother language with people speaking a different language, and accessing information encoded in other languages that we do not speak. And we will be using natural language to interact with all sorts of artificial devices and services in the rapidly unfolding information society.

What are the new conditions of usage for natural languages? How will they thrive and which will lose relevance, or eventually get extinct, in the globalized world?

And in particular: What are the specific challenges for the Portuguese language? What strategic responses can be devised?

Seeking views, answers and strategies that help to answer these questions is the central goal of this workshop.

Organization:

This is an event in the International Series of Workshops on 'New Technologies and the Future of Languages':

http://metanet4u.weebly.com/

It is organized by the European project METANET4U:

http://metanet4u.eu

This is a project in the European Network of Excellence META-NET:

http://www.meta-net.eu

Program

8h30 Registration opens

9h00 Welcome address

9h10 - 10h20 Session P1 - Presentations

9h10
Strategies of Camões, IP for the Promotion of the Portuguese Language in the Internet
Rui Vaz
Camões, IP (former Instituto Camões)

9h35
Multilateral Linguistic Policies for Portuguese and for Multilingualism in the Cyberspace
Gilvan Müller Oliveira
Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa (IILP/CPLP)

10h00
Languages and Technologies within the European Digital Agenda - A broad overview
Roberto Cencioni
European Commission

10h25 - 10h50 Session D1 - Debates
Standup multilateral debates start (fueled by coffee and cookies)

10h50 - 11h40 Session P2 - Presentations

10h50
The Portuguese Varieties at the Transition to Digital Support
José Afonso Furtado
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

11h15 Ideas, Doubts and Realities
Helder Coelho
Universidade de Lisboa

11h40 - 12h05 Session D2 - Debates
Standup multilateral debates continue (around coffee)

12h05 - 13h20 Session P3 - Presentations

12h05
CLARIN: Language Technology for the Humanities
Steven Krauwer
CLARIN Research Infrastructiure

12h30
A Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe
Hans Uszkoreit
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and META-NET European R&D Network of Excellence

12h55
The Portuguese Language in the Digital Shock: challenges and opportunities
António Branco
Universidade de Lisboa and METANET4U Project

13h20 - 13h30 Wrapping address

13h30 - 14h30 Session D3 - Debates
Standup multilateral debates conclude (supported by a light meal)

14h30 Farewell


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