http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news The LT World News items are updated on a regular, monthly frequency daily 1 2011-09-15T10:52:16Z http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-04.8204097518 In the 1970s and early 1980s, the Laboratory, working on its own and in collaboration with other research laboratories, conducted pioneering research, development, and experiments in the use of packet networks for speech communications. In August 1974, the first real-time packet speech, between Lincoln Laboratory and the University of California's Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey, California, used 8 kbps continuously variable slope delta modulation to digitize the speech, and traversed at least eight hops on the ARPANET (for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). The first real-time linear predictive coding (LPC) communication over the ARPANET, with speech coded at 3.5 kbps, took place between Culler Harrison, Inc. (CHI) in Goleta, California, and the Laboratory in December 1974. In 1976, CHI, SRI in Palo Alto, California, and Lincoln Laboratory participated in the first real-time LPC conferencing over the ARPANET. And, in June 1982, a major achievement was realized: packet-speech conferencing over a wideband satellite network was demonstrated by linking voice terminals on local-area cable networks at Lincoln Laboratory, a mobile packet radio net at SRI, and the Information Sciences Institute, where a special interface provided connection to the regular switched telephone network. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-02-02 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-02.1807260308 Applied Language Solutions, a provider of translation services, has been bought by Capita Group Plc, a provider of business process outsourcing and integrated professional support service solutions. The Capita Group Plc has announced its acquisition of language services provider, Applied Language Solutions Ltd ('ALS'). The business has been bought by Capita for £7.5m, with a further contingent consideration of up to £60m, based on performance over the next four years. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-01-18 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-03.1854648484 The European Union has some of the world's best research facilities and most accomplished researchers. Harnessing their full potential will help turn novel ideas into jobs, green growth and social progress. To facilitate this, the European Commission finances, either wholly or partially, a wide range of individual research and technology development projects. Details about many of these can be found on the Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) - the primary information source for EU-funded projects. A new Projects Service, launched on 16 January 2012, will enhance the role of CORDIS. Designed not only to be a comprehensive reference point for project participants, coordinators and stakeholders, the service will also make information and data available to wider audiences. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-01-18 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-04.6085675074 After much internal strife, the European Commission published today (25 January) a broad legislative package aimed at safeguarding personal data across the EU. The proposal, if approved, is expected to strengthen citizens’ rights and could have a far-reaching impact on the way online data are collected and processed. Viviane Reding, the justice and fundamental rights commissioner, had to struggle to have her proposals accepted by other commissioners, but eventually managed to pass a set of new rules that will significantly increase the rights of citizens - if member states and the Parliament do not water them down. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-01-24 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-04.3960989837 Tony Guez, Application Business Development Director, Alcatel-Lucent France, here explains how this universal language translation service is provided through telephones and the Internet: "As one person begins a conversation in English, the service translates the dialogue in real-time, so that the person on the other end of the phone – say in Spain – hears a version of that dialogue in their native tongue in real-time. The system also produces an instant text output of the dialogue which could be viewed on the screen of the telephone." "And we also offer a conference call mode: I say "Hello", Roberto hears "Ciao", a few seconds later Joules hears "Bonjour" and José hears "Ola" – all in the same conversation, all at the same time and each accompanied by instant text on his own screen. Roberto was on a smart phone, Joules was using VOIP, and José was on his landline." Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-02-01 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-04.7438018966 TAUS, the translation innovation think tank and interoperability watchdog, announces a partnership with APET (Portuguese Association of Translation Companies). This partnership allows the respective members access to the networks, communities and knowledge of the two organizations as well as preferential rates on membership. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-02-01 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-04.4354818844 At a time when digital media and search majors like Yahoo and Google are struggling with the monetisation of platforms that they have already built, Yahoo India is looking to introduce at least 5 new languages to its content search options by the end of the year. According to Prem Panicker, managing editor of Yahoo India, in the next 5 years, the language space will see an addition of up to 20 million users per language. “This is in itself a huge potential market waiting to be explored,” he explained. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-02-02 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-03.6114401255 Lang Tech News is a new, constantly evolving website, aiming to bring together news and information about Language Technologies in Europe and the world. It covers a wide range of domains and topics including technologies, applications and industries. You can follow them on Twitter too @LangTechNews, or subscribe to the daily newsletter. Registration is not required. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-01-18 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-03.4144865979 The development of electronic commerce and online services offers enormous potential for beneficial economic, social and societal change. The Internet economy creates 2.6 jobs for every "off-line" job lost, and offers a better choice to consumers, including those in rural and isolated areas. The gains brought by lower online prices and a wider choice of available products and services are estimated at EUR 11.7 billion, equivalent to 0.12 % of European GDP. If 15 % of retail sales were e-commerce and the obstacles to the internal market were removed, the gains for consumers might be as much as EUR 204 billion, or 1.7 % of European GDP. The European Commission finds, however, that there are many obstacles preventing consumers and businesses from investing fully in online services: ignorance or uncertainty about the applicable rules, offers that lack transparency and are hard to compare, and payments and modes of delivery that are often expensive and unsuitable. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-01-10 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-03.0603634851 The AAL Association will announce the 5th Call for proposals of the AAL Joint Programme: ICT-based Solutions for (Self) Management of Daily Life Activities of Older Adults at Home. Most people prefer to live independently in their own homes for as long as possible. When support is necessary, there are different options: using technology and/or assistance delivered by somebody else. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-01-26 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-03.8766085586 The new call for proposal has been published today (18/01/2012) with a deadline of 12th of April 2012, at 17:00.00 Brussels local time. The indicative budget is 291 million euros. Several objectives of the following Challenges are open: Challenge 2: Cognitive systems and robotics, Challenge 4: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages, Challenge 5: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance, Challenge 8: ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources, Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) and International cooperation -partnership building and support to dialogues-. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-01-17 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-02.7924856899 This has been a year where search marketing truly matured. Mobile became one of the largest growth components, with its share of the overall search market now reaching 20 percent. Looking ahead, expect 2012 to be the year when we push further into the Mobile Semantic Web 3.0, which presents opportunities that will drastically change SEO as we know it. Language Technology World (LT World) 2011-12-26 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-02.7185987852 Data scientists at Yahoo are using prediction markets—along with polls, sentiment analysis on Twitter, and trends in search queries—to create the mother of all political prediction engines. The project involves Web-based prediction markets like Intrade, in which large numbers of people bet on the outcomes of elections. The researchers behind this effort, David Rothschild, an economist at Yahoo Research, and Dave Pennock, a computer scientist at Yahoo Research, call their effort the Signal. They plan to produce data visualizations that best convey probability to a lay audience, and to publish work on machine learning and fundamental economic models based on the effort. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-01-18 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-02.2341177888 New research from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, aims to quell the frustration and strife that can come when multiple people use a single touch screen. The project, called Bootstrapper, uses cameras below a table to identify different users by their shoes. Each set of shoes is linked to an account that keeps track of a person's actions and preferences. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-01-22 News http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication-and-events/news/ltw_x3anews_.2012-02-02.1679064213 Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley prefer to fund the young, the next Mark Zuckerberg. Why? The common mantra is that if you are over 35, you are too old to innovate. In fact, there is an evolving profile of the "perfect" entrepreneur—smart enough to get into Harvard or Stanford and savvy enough to drop out. Some prominent figures are even urging talented young people to skip college, presumably so they do not waste their "youngness" on studying. Language Technology World (LT World) 2012-01-31 News