
The META-FORUM’11 took place in Budapest (Hungary) on June 27th-28th. This international conference, dedicated to fostering the technological foundations of a multilingual European information society, gathered 400 participants. It was also an official event of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
During the closing ceremony, 4 "META-Prizes" and 10 "META Seals of Recognition" were granted, to reward actors, products and services which promote multilinguism in Europe.
The other three prizes went to MOSES (University of Edinburgh), LDF and ELRA jointly, and Jibbigo (congratulations to Alex Waibel !) Vecsys also received two "META Seals" for Media Speech Factory and the application Vocable (in partnershift with Immanens).
The 8th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) will be organised in Istanbul, 23-25 May 2012.
IMMI and the european research program Quaero are sponsors of the 8th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation.
The first workshop on Benchmarking Facial Image Analysis Technologies will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on November 13th 2011 in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’11).
MediaEval 2011 will take place in Pisa, on September 1-2 2011. This workshop, dedicated to benchmarking, is organized in connection with InterSpeech 2011.