Massively Multilingual Conference & Expo
TAUS Language for AI event
The Massively Multilingual Conference & Expo took place from 11 to 13 October, 2022 in San Jose, California. The event was organised by TAUS.
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Schedule
Day 1
| 18:00 | Opening Reception Gateway Ballroom Doubletree by Hilton San Jose |
Day 2
| 08:00 | Registration ☕️ |
| 09:00 | Welcome and Program Overview Jaap van der Meer |
| Keynote Session | |
| 09:10 | Introduction to the session and presenting the speakers Jaap van der Meer |
| 09:20 | Massively Multilingual Models and the state of Machine Translation in 2022 John DeNero |
| 09:40 | Everything All At Once: Machine Translation at the Convergence Hany Hassan Awadalla, Microsoft |
| 10:10 | Massively Multilingual panel Hany Hassan Awadalla, Microsoft; Paco Guzmán, Meta; Macduff Hughes, Google Moderator: John DeNero, Jaap van der Meer |
| 11:00 | ☕️ |
| 11:30 | Warm-up activity András Aponyi |
| 11:35 | World-Readiness Contest, Part I |
| 11:38 | Language accessibility programs made easy and cost-efficient Konstantin Savenkov, Intento |
| 11:44 | Quality prediction for hybrid translation Adam Bittlingmayer, ModelFront |
| 11:50 | Unto all the World Zak Nyberg, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Ana De Agostini, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
| 12:00 | DeMT™ Evaluate Anderson Vaz, TAUS; Achim Ruopp, Polyglot Technology |
| 12:30 | 🍴 |
| 14:00 | Warm-up activity András Aponyi |
| 14:05 | On Evaluating MT, human parity and the limits of MT Markus Freitag, Google; Gretchen Markiewicz, Raytheon BBN; Philipp Koehn, Meta AI Moderator: Olga Beregovaya, Smartling |
| The Business Perspective, Part I | |
| 15:00 | Enterprise machine translation – a closer look from AWS perspective Watson Srivathsan, Amazon AI |
| 15:10 | Improving meeting productivity and efficiency with multi-language translation Sebastian Stüker, Zoom |
| 15:20 | Automating cross-lingual communications at Avery Dennison Murali Nathan, Avery Dennison |
| 15:30 | Panel conversation Sebastian Stüker, Watson Srivathsan, Murali Nathan Moderator: Anne-Maj van der Meer, Antoine Moreau |
| 16:00 | Adjourn |
| 16:15 | Shuttle leaves for Regale Winery & Vineyard |
| 17:00 | **Dinner at Regale Winery & Vineyard |
Day 3
| 08:00 | Registration ☕️ |
| 09:00 | Welcome and Program Overview Jaap van der Meer |
| The Business Perspective, Part II | |
| 09:15 | AI-Enabled Translation Renato Beninatto, Nimdzi Insights |
| 09:30 | AI-enabled Translation Workflows Wayne Bourland, Dell; Zhenhui Chao, VMware; Loic Dufresne de Virel, Intel Moderator: Renato Beninatto, Nimdzi Insights; Anne-Maj van der Meer, TAUS |
| 10:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:00 | Warm-up activity András Aponyi |
| 11:05 | World readiness contest, Part II |
| 11:06 | Mind the Gap: Detecting and Monitoring Quality Gaps in Machine Translation Services Achim Ruopp, Polyglot Technology |
| 11:12 | Quantifying Quality – Translation Memories Mei Zheng, Smartling |
| 11:18 | SYSTRAN Meeting Translator - Real-time STT with HILT review JP Barraza, Systran |
| Beyond the Traditional Languages | |
| 11:30 | No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation Vedanuj Goswami, Meta |
| 11:40 | Human Language Project Simona Beccaletto, TAUS |
| 11:50 | Building Out Living Lexicons Casper Grathwohl, Oxford Languages |
| 12:00 | Panel conversation on language expansion Vedanuj Goswami, Meta; Simona Beccaletto, TAUS; Casper Grathwohl, Oxford Languages Moderator: Gráinne Maycock, Sölen Aslan |
| 12:45 | 🍴 |
| 14:00 | Warm-up activity András Aponyi |
| 14:05 | World-Readiness Contest, Part III |
| 14:06 | A practical way to expand software locales Todd Flaska, Lingoport |
| 14:12 | Expert multi-layer, cross-lingual data for massive, refined machine translation Karni Berlad Cohen, Lexicala |
| 14:30 | NLP Panel András Aponyí, TAUS; Adam Bittlingmayer, ModelFront; Sunil Mallya, Flip AI Moderator: JP Barraza |
| 15:30 | ☕️ |
| 16:00 | Warm-up activity András Aponyi |
| 16:05 | Any Questions? Moderator: Paul Mangell, Alpha |
| 16:50 | Wrap-up and Announcement of World-Readiness Winner |