1. JRC-Ispra, 16.09.04, Slide 1 Introduction – Presentation of the Programme Ralf Steinberger Addressing the Language Barrier Problem in the Enlarged EU Automatic Eurovoc Descriptor Assignment JRC Workshop, Ispra, 16/17 September 2004 http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/langtech

2. JRC-Ispra, 16.09.04, Slide 2 Purpose of the workshop Present Eurovoc as a means to index and retrieve multilingual documents Present JRC work on automating the descriptor assignment Request your collaboration so that we can extend the application to the new EU languages (and more!) Mutual benefit

3. JRC-Ispra, 16.09.04, Slide 3 The JRC Team Thomas Barbas (EL) (Leader of Action 4312, including LT) Ippolita Susy Valerio (IT) (Secretary) Bruno Pouliquen (FR) Camelia Ignat (RO) Tomaz Erjavec (SI) (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana) Ralf Steinberger (DE)

4. JRC-Ispra, 16.09.04, Slide 4 Presentation of the programme (Thursday AM) 9:30 Thomas Barbas (EC, DG JRC)Welcome Note; Introduction to the JRC; Presentation of the EU Enlargement Action 9:45 Ralf Steinberger (JRC, Language Technology) Purpose of the workshop; Presentation of the programme 10:00 Christine Laaboudi-Spoiden & Alexandros Athanassiadis (EC, DG OPOCE, Publications Office) Eurovoc as a means to access multilingual information 10:30 Suzanne Hanon (EC, DG Education & Culture, Central Library) Indexing with the ECLAS Thesaurus at the Central Library of the European Commission: Principles for descriptor assignment and problems encountered while indexing 11:00 Coffee 11:30 Bruno Pouliquen (JRC, Language Technology) Automatic Eurovoc Indexing: approach 12:30 Lunch

5. JRC-Ispra, 16.09.04, Slide 5 Presentation of the programme (Thursday PM) 14:00 Bruno Pouliquen (JRC, Language Technology) Automatic Eurovoc Indexing: evaluation and results 14:30 Victoria Fernandez Mera, Spanish Congress of Deputies Experiences of the Spanish Congress of Deputies with automatic Eurovoc indexing 15:00 Elisabet Lindkvist Michailaki, Swedish Parliament Automatic indexing with Eurovoc at the Swedish Parliament 15:30 Coffee 16:00Anna Lhotská & Václav Sklenář, Office of the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of the Czech Republic Automatic Eurovoc Indexing - An Experiment in the Czech Parliament 16:15 Ralf Steinberger (JRC, Language Technology) Further multilingual text analysis applications based on Eurovoc 17:15 Travel expenses; formalities 18:00 End of day one; transfer to the hotel 19:30 Workshop Dinner at Ristorante Le Betulle, Ispra

6. JRC-Ispra, 16.09.04, Slide 6 Presentation of the programme (Friday AM) 9:30 Bruno Pouliquen (JRC, Language Technology) Next steps / Technical details (how to provide data, and how much; data format; Eurovoc versions; linguistic pre- processing of the texts; evaluation procedure and evaluation interface) 10:30 Tamás Váradi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Indexing languages without a version of Eurovoc - The Hungarian experience. 11:00 Coffee / Expenses / Formalities 11:30 Discussion / Questions and Answers 12:00 Ralf Steinberger (JRC, Language Technology) Summary of the Workshop 12:15 Lunch Pick-up time at the hotel: ca. 8:45 - 9:00

7. JRC-Ispra, 16.09.04, Slide 7 Some formalities Who will bring a partner to the restaurant? Are there any dietary restrictions? Please contact Ms. Sabine Gross during the break in the morning.

8. JRC-Ispra, 16.09.04, Slide 8 Reimbursement of Expenses You pay for your own expenses (hotel, food, …) You use the reimbursement forms to claim the travel cost and the daily allowance (ca. 149 for each day of the workshop) Needed: –Bank details, signed and stamped by the bank –Copy of passports Contact Ms. Ippolita Valerio (Susy) during the workshop