Bilbao hosts the Infoday on language technologies

On September 25, the Secretary of State for Digital Advance organizes the Infoday about language technologies. The event is part of the XXXV International Conference of the SEPLN (Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing) and the dissemination activities of the Plan for the Advancement of Language Technologies, whose objective is to promote the development of natural language processing and automatic translation in Spanish and co-official languages.

With this event, the organizers want to show and highlight the importance of natural language processing campaigns in all areas, but especially the field of health and biomedicine, as well as raise awareness of the different elements necessary for language technology projects come to fruition, such as open data.

The event will take place in the morning from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the headquarters of the University of the Basque Country, in Bilbao (Avenida Abandoibarra, 3), and it is divided into two parts:

• Part I: Developments in the Plan for the Advacement Language Technologies (TL Plan). In the first part of the event, the main initiatives that are being carried out within the TL Plan will be addressed. The focus will be on some highlights, such as linguistic infrastructures and European machine translation projects. In addition, the results of some of the latest studies will be shown. One of these studies is “Reusable data as linguistic resources”, whose presentation will be defended by Leonardo Campillos, of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), and which has been carried out with funding from the Secretary of State for Digital Advancement and Red.es within of the scope of the TL Plan.
• Part II: Health assessment campaigns. In the second part, the situation of the different campaigns carried out in the field of health and biomedicine will be analysed, paying special attention to anonymization tasks. For this, two round tables will be held, under the title of  “Evaluation campaigns, experiences, needs, impact and vision of participants” and “Protection of health data, legal aspects, knowledge transfer, clinical PLN solutions and opportunities for the TL academy and industry”.

Through this agenda, the organizers seek to generate a space to sharing experiences, which allow us to avoid duplication and take advantage of synergies between the different actors involved in the universe of language technologies: public entities, private companies, academic sector, researchers, etc.

The attendance to the event is free, but it is necessary to register previously through this link.