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The purpose of the proposed project was to take advantage of the Swedish Language-Technology Conference to stimulate research and activities on two current topics. One is the technological transfer of results from the academia to industry, and the other the development of tools for second-language acquisition to ease integration and communication across language barriers.
To this end, we took the following actions:
- We chose the invited speakers to represent the entire knowledge-creation chain from basic and application-driven research (Prof. Mohri and Dr. Kuhlmann) to empirical evaluation and commercialization (Prof. Moschitti and Prof. Burstein). Prof. Burstein is also a specialist on linguistic didactics and software tools for language acquisition.
- We collocated three workshops on the topics, namely Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Computer-Assisted Language Learning, NLP for Language Acquisition, and SWE-Clarin: Research collaborations for the digital age.
- We held an industrial track where practical LT systems were demonstrated, and to allow entrepreneurs involved in LT start-ups to exchange experiences and advice. We also had an invited lecturer from the local business incubator who spoke about utilization of research results.
- We made a particular effort to attract conference visitors from outside academia, and to engage non-Swedish researchers and proficients to a greater degree. Especially the latter was something of a challenge since Umeå requires an additional flight compared with e.g. Stockholm and Lund, but despite this we achieved high participation.