List of Participants
Name Organisation Country Britta Aagaard TextMinded Denmark Markus Ackermann Universtität Leipzig Germany Andero Adamson Ministry of Education and Research Estonia Jonadav Apelblat The Brussels Times Belgium Mihael Arcan Insight Centre for Data Analytics Ireland Efe Atli ProjectZ Turkey Arūnas Augustinaitis Kazimieras Simonavičius University Lithuania Ilze Auziņa IMCS UL Latvia Juris Balodis Latvian Technological Center Latvia Guntis Barzdins University of Latvia Latvia Núria Bel Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain Søren Bendtsen FPO IBM Denmark Johan Berghs Automatictrans Spain Aivars Bērziņš Tilde Latvia Agnese Birnbauma-Eglīte SKRIVANEK BALTIC SIA Latvia Uldis Bojārs National Library of Latvia Latvia Anke Borscheid Latvian Academy of Culture Germany António Branco University of Lisbon Portugal Torbjoerg Breivik The Language Council of Norway Norway Gerhard Budin University of Vienna Austria Paul Buitelaar Insight, National University of Ireland Ireland Aljoscha Burchardt DFKI GmbH Germany Arturo Calvo ADAPT CENTRE Ireland Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani ELRA & ILC-CNR Italy David Canek Memsource a.s. Czech Republic Manuel Tomas Carrasco Benitez European Commission Luxembourg Alessandro Cattelan Translated srl Italy Eduards Cauna VARAM Latvia Jan Cernocky Brno University of Technology Czech Republic Claudio Chiavetta Lionbridge Belgium Khalid Choukri ELDA SAS France Lolita Čigāne Parliament of Latvia Latvia Philipp Cimiano Bielefeld University Germany Goretti Cortina Larrabe Cambridge English Language Assessment Belgium Catia Cucchiarini Nederlandse Taalunie Netherlands Mariana Damova Mozaika Bulgaria Katerina Dara-Lepoura European Parliament Belgium Brian Davis Insight@NUI Galway Ireland Francisco De Sousa Webber cortical.io Austria Thierry Declerck Saarland University Germany Miguel Diaz US Embassy Riga Latvia Tsvetana Dimitrova Institute for Bulgarian Language Bulgaria
page 1 of 5 Rickard Domeij The Swedish Language Council Sweden Uldis Dzenis IT KC Latvia Martin Eessalu Ministry of Education and Research Estonia Vineta Ernstsone Ministry of Education and Science Latvia Thierry Etchegoyhen Vicomtech-IK4 Spain Nicolas Fachon New Paradigm SAS France David Filip University of Limerick Ireland Helēna Gizeleza Latvian Association of Interpreters and Translators Latvia Serge Gladkoff Logrus Bohemia s.r.o. Czech Republic Asunción Gómez-Pérez Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Spain Tatiana Gornostay Tilde Latvia Jorge Gracia Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Spain Aivars Gribusts Lielvārds Latvia Marko Grobelnik Jozef Stefan Institute Slovenia Thibault Grouas Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication France Janina Gutermann Latvijas Kulturas Akademija Latvia Juha Haapaniemi eFutura-Futura Future Publications Finland Barry Haddow University of Edinburgh UK Knut Haga Clarify Limited UK Jan Hajic Charles University in Prague Czech Republic Allan Hanbury Vienna University of Technology Austria Kim Harris text&form GmbH Germany Matthias Heyn SDL International Belgium Ioannis Iakovidis Interverbum Technology AB Sweden Līga Indriksone Ernst & Young Baltic Latvia Antoine Isaac Europeana Netherlands Richard Ishida W3C UK Rebecca Jonsson Artificial Solutions Spain Andrew Joscelyne LT-Innovate France John Judge ADAPT Ireland Neeme Kahusk Center of Estonian Language Resources Estonia Jung-Goo Vincent Kang KMIC Global Inc. Germany Baiba Kangere Latvian Academy of Sciences Latvia Giedrius Karauskas TILDE IT, UAB Lithuania Kertu Kärk Luisa Translation Agency Estonia Ilan Kernerman K Dictionaries Israel Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen Danish Language Council/EFNIL Denmark Hanna Klimek European Parliament Belgium Aurelia Klimkiewicz York University Canada Nele Koduvere Interlex Translations Estonia Svetla Koeva Institute for Bulgarian Language Bulgaria Kevin Koidl Trinity College Dublin Ireland Liana Korneitsuk Estonian Youth Parlament Estonia Katrina Kosa-Ammari Ministry of Foreign Affairs Latvia Mareks Kovalevskis European Commission Luxembourg Steven Krauwer CLARIN ERIC Netherlands Simon Krek Jozef Stefan Institute Slovenia Tomas Krilavičius Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology Lithuania Tõnn Kulasalu Interlex Translations Estonia
META-FORUM 2015 – List of Participants page 2 of 5 Rita Kursite National Centre for Education Latvia Pille-Riin Laadoga Luisa Translation Agency Estonia Kristaps Lapiņš Translate 24/7 Latvia Eric Lavost New Paradigm SAS France Laure Le Bars SAP Germany Fernando Leitao European commission Portugal David Lewis ADAPT at Trinity College Dublin Ireland Juan Llorens Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism Spain Igors Lukjanovs Social Reforms Society of Latvia Latvia Vesna Lušicky University of Vienna Austria Martin Luts Tilde Estonia Estonia Gudrun Magnusdottir ESTeam AB Germany Armands Magone Culture Information Systems Centre Latvia Alfredo Maldonado Trinity College Dublin Ireland Andrius Marcinkevičius Tilde informacinės technologijos Lithuania Joseph Mariani LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI France Baltiņš Māris State Lauguage Centre Latvia Margaretha Mazura European Multimedia Forum Belgium John McCrae Bielefeld University Germany Steve McKenna Cambridge English Language Assessment UK Sharon McKimm Moravia IT Ireland Luc Meertens CrossLang NV Belgium Maite Melero Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain Dmitrijs Milajevs Queen Mary University of London UK Monica Monachini CNR-ILC Italy Simonetta Montemagni Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale CNR Italy Maria Pia Montoro European Parliament Luxembourg Andrea Moro Sapienza, Universita di Roma Italy Marta Nagy-Rothengass European Commission Luxembourg Roberto Navigli Sapienza University of Rome Italy Jan Nelson Microsoft Corporation USA Davor Orlic Knowledge 4 All Foundation Ltd. UK Michele Osella Istituto Superiore Mario Boella Italy Veronika Ovcinnikova Agro-Know Greece Joachim Ozdoba Publications Office of the European Union Luxembourg Santa Ozoliņa US Embassy in Riga Latvia Darko Pekar AlfaNum Ltd. Serbia Secretary of State for Telecomunicatons and David Pérez Fernández Spain Information Society Spyridon Pilos European Commission, DG Translation Luxembourg Mārcis Pinnis Tilde Latvia Stelios Piperidis ILSP / Athena RC Greece Kaspars Poikāns National Centre for Education Latvia Ieva Portnaja LETA Latvia Anna Potapova Smolensk State University Russia Uldis Priede European Commission Latvia Gábor Prószéky Pázmány University Hungary Delyth Prys Bangor University UK Rhoslyn Prys Meddal.com UK Meirion Prys Jones NPLD Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity UK
META-FORUM 2015 – List of Participants page 3 of 5 Deirdre Pyle Moravia IT LLC USA Georg Rehm DFKI GmbH Germany Dagmar Reichardt RUG Universität Groningen Netherlands António Raul Reis Publications Office of the EU Luxembourg Steve Renals University of Edinburgh UK Alessia Ridoni Translated srl Italy Ruben Riestra INMARK Spain Edgars Rinkēvičs Minister of Foreign Affairs Latvia Phil Ritchie Vistatec Ireland Blanca Rodríguez Zabala Innovation Consulting, S.A. Spain Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson University of Iceland Iceland Jutta Romberg Computational Linguist Germany Michael Rosner University of Malta Malta Jan Roukens stichting Nederlands Belgium Roberts Rozis Latvia Eva Rusnakova Government office of the Slovak republic Slovakia Frank Salliau Ghent University - iMinds - Multimedia Lab Belgium Tabita Salmina Lingmaster Latvia Anna Samiotou TAUS Netherlands Nieves Sande DFKI GmbH Germany Robert Sarver Moravia IT, LLC USA Felix Sasaki DFKI GmbH/ W3C Fellow Germany Algirdas Saudargas European Parliament Belgium Bilgehan Sayilgan ProjectZ Turkey Peter Schmitz Publications Office of the EU Luxembourg Klaus-Dirk Schmitz Cologne University of Applied Sciences Germany Daniel Schreiber cortical.io Austria Fernando Servan Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Italy Richard Sheppard Interceptor Solutions Ltd UK Inguna Skadina Tilde Latvia Raivis Skadins Tilde Latvia Alexander Slepak MultiQA Russia Kirill Soloviev MultiQA Russia Claudia Soria CNR-ILC Italy Lucia Specia University of Sheffield UK Annick Spinelli Lionbridge Belgium Vēsma Sproģe Ecological Society of Latvia Latvia Olaf-Michael Stefanov ASLING and JIAMCATT Austria Inese Stepina Employers' Confederation of Latvia Latvia Juliane Stiller Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany Renāte Strazdiņa Ernst & Young Baltic Latvia Irina Strinatko Oracle UK Ināra Švarca National Centre for Education Latvia Piotr Szczepaniak Lodz University of Technology Poland Marko Tadić University of Zagreb Croatia Dennis Tan VeriSign, Inc. USA Eugenia Tarakanova Yummy Translations Latvia Daina Teiviša Translate 24/7 Latvia Philipp Tiedt VICO Research & Consulting GmbH Germany
META-FORUM 2015 – List of Participants page 4 of 5 Gita Timofejeva Euroscript Baltic SIA Latvia Dan Tufis Romanian Academy Romania Can Unal Linguasys Germany Hans Uszkoreit DFKI GmbH Germany Peggy van der Kreeft Deutsche Welle Germany Josef van Genabith DFKI GmbH Germany Tamás Váradi Research Institute for Linguistics Hungary Jana Vasickova Digital Marketing Day Sweden Andrejs Vasiļjevs Tilde Latvia Andrejs Veisbergs University of Latvia Latvia Zygmunt Vetulani Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Poland Grażyna Vetulani Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Poland Kadri Vider Center of Estonian Language Resources Estonia Stefanos Vrochidis Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Greece Janis Vucans Saeima (Parliament of Latvia) Latvia Natasa Vujnovic Sedlar Faculty of technical sciences Serbia Philippe Wacker LT-Innovate Belgium Leo Wanner Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain Susanne Weber BBC News Labs UK Sarah Weichert DFKI GmbH Germany Carmen Wiedenhoeft digm USA Marta Witkowska Adam Mickiewicz University Poland Feiyu Xu DFKI GmbH Germany Holly Young The Guardian UK Jolanta Zabarskaite Institute of Lithuan Language Lithuania Zoltan Zakota Partium Christian University Romania Jānis Ziediņš Culture information systems centre Latvia Andrzej Zydron XTM International Ltd. UK
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