Deliverable D2.2b Contact Database of Stakeholders - CESAR project

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Contract no. 271022
D2.2b “Contact database of stakeholders” is the deliverable of the WP2 “Analysis and
selection of language resources” of the CESAR project. This is its second edition delivered at
month 18th.
During this second period (from the 4th until the 18th month) all partners have worked
extensively to popularize the objectives of the CESAR project and to spread the results
achieved so far. Since the CESAR aims at encompassing a large variety of language resources,
language processing and annotation tools and technologies, our target users are developers and
researchers in both industry and academia. This includes private and public institutions,
companies and individuals involved in HLT research and development: industrial organizations
and SMEs, academic institutions, research organizations, universities, individual researchers
and students, national governments, EU institutions, and private investors. We have targeted all
these users throughout a variety of means – e-mails and personal letters, publications in
different media, and a Road show of European language technology, aiming at presenting
state-of-the-art, directions and visions of development of language resources and tools for the
common scientific and commercial market.
Each of the events made within the Road show (held in different countries) intended to
promote knowledge about language technology and its potential, together with the possible
threats accompanied with its development. Each time particular attention was drawn to
language technology for the language of the host country by presenting new advances in the
field and their application in administration and business as well as involvement of open source
and research community in the process of development of language resources. This was
achieved by gathering experts who tried to answer important questions on the future of
language and language processing in a globalized digital information society.
The results of the promotion and our efforts towards reaching out to both the experts in the
field and the potential users are described in Deliverable D2.2b.
The aim of the deliverable is to present the relevant contact information for three main
groups of stakeholders: Natural Language Processing research and business groups, Natural
language Processing profiting groups, and public authorities. The Contact database covers
individuals (experts), institutions (research, national-funding agencies, government) and
companies (producers and important users) dealing with Language Resources and
Technologies.
Since the partners are from Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Slovakia, the
contact database presents information for these countries and respective languages: Bulgarian,
Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian and Slovak.
The Contact database consists of contacts information (name, affiliation and email) on the
national (and international) level of representatives of the following stakeholder types:
research, education, government, industry (vendors, service providers and users), associations,
integrators, and others (funding agencies, media, nongovernmental organisations, etc.).
There is also information for the main area of the expertise, namely: Natural Language
Processing (with specifying sub-domains such as Machine Translation, Speech Processing,
Information Technologies), speech, translation, localisation, interpretations and others.
The last three columns contain newly collected information on whether the specified
contact has been introduced to the Cesar project and META-NET, whether he/she has
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