WORKSHOP The Portuguese Language in the Digital Age  November 16, 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 Infrastructure) 12h30 - A Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI and META-NET) 12h55 - The Portuguese Language in the Digital Shock: challenges and opportunities António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa and METANET4U) 13h20 - 13h30 Wrapping address 13h30 - 14h30 Session D3 - Debates Standup multilateral debates conclude (supported by a light meal) 14h30 - Farewell FULL INFORMATION For details on the Program, Speakers, Venue, Registration, etc., see here: http://metanet4u.weebly.com/workshop-in-portugal.html Read more: http://aclweb.org/portal/content/workshop-portuguese-language-digital-age