We are pleased to announce that the third FLaReNet Forum 'Language Resources in the Sharing Age - the Strategic Agenda' will take place in Venice, Italy, 26 and 27 May 2011, in the beautiful setting of Auditorium Santa Margherita, Ca' Foscari University.

Following the usual successful formula, the third Forum is conceived as a collaborative workshop designed to raise discussion in a very interactive way, thus creating a breeding ground for open questions, new ideas and visions for the field of Language Resources/Technologies.

The Venice Forum sessions are devoted to the following topics:

- Identification and tracking of Language Resources
- Open Data
- Go green: reuse, repurpose, and recycle resources
- Innovation needs data
- Data for all languages: think big

- Long life to our resources
- From recommendations to actions: what’s next?

A description of the sessions is now available on the web site.

*Registration now open*

Participation to the Forum is open but subject to online registration due to the limited number of admissible participants (up to a maximum of 150). Make sure to register well in advance to secure your place through the Forum Registration page.

*Preliminary list of  Speakers*

While the final program is taking shape, we are pleased to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give a talk at the Forum:

Anne Cambon-Thomsen, CNRS, France

Timos Sellis, IMIS, Greece

Key Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea

Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA

Chris Cieri, LDC, USA

James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA

Bill Dolan, Microsoft Inc., USA

Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI, Germany

Andrejs Vasiljevs, Tilde

Frederique Segond, Xerox, France

Dunja Mladenic, JSI, Slovenia

Kenneth Church, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Peter Wittenburg, MPI, The Netherlands

David Giaretta, STFC, UK

David Haskiya, Europeana

*Important notice*

Venice is a worldwide top tourist destination attracting millions of tourists each year. Do not hesitate to make your hotel reservation as soon as possible. A list of hotels close to the Forum venue is available at the Forum Accommodation page.

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Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy)

Khalid Choukri (ELDA, Paris, France)

Stelios Piperidis (ILSP / “Athena” R. C., Athens, Greece)

Jan Odijk (Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Núria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

Joseph Mariani (LIMSI/IMMI-CNRS, Paris, France)

Claudia Soria (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy)

Rodolfo Delmonte (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy)