SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION FROM WELSH TO ENGLISH WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THE CONFERENCE

Friday 25 January 2019

9.30 Registration and Tea and Coffee

Session 1: Welsh Language Technology Action Plan

10.15 Opening of the conference Eluned Morgan, Minister for International Relations and the Welsh Language who will present the Welsh Government’s new Welsh Language Technology Action Plan

Session 2: Speech Technology

10.45 Dewi Bryn Jones: Language Technologies Unit, Canolfan Bedwyr: First Skills for Macsen, the Welsh Digital Personal Assistant

11.15 Kelly Davis, Mozilla: Mozilla’s Deep Speech Project for Speech Recognition

12.45 Stefano Ghazzali, Language Technology Unit, Canolfan Bedwyr: The Lleisiwr project

12.15 Questions and Discussion

12.30 Lunch

Session 3: Digital strategies and language revitalization

13.15 Claudia Soria, Institute Computational Linguistics “A.Zampolli”, Pisa, Italy: The DLDP’s Digital Language Survival Kit

13.45 Jason Evans, National Wikimedian, National Library of Wales: Welsh Wicipedia and Welsh Wikidata data

14.15 Tea and Coffee

Session 4: Machine Translation

14.45 Delyth Prys in place of Teresa Lynn: Machine Translation: the experience of Europe

15.15 Myfyr Prys, KTP Associate Cymen / Bangor University: Machine Translation for Limited Domains

15.30 Questions and Discussion

16.00 Close of conference