It is about time for a comprehensive European language & terminology policy and implementation
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It is about time for a comprehensive European language & terminology policy and implementation
Looking back into the future
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What we will discuss
A personal agenda Late 20th century EU policy: multilingual society Academic languages under pressure Terminology infrastructure implementation EU and governments: responding to needs!
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Reminder: globalisation of the banana
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Late 20th century EU policy : safeguarding Multilingual European Society
EU internal language needs Human translation Technological orientation MLAP: translation technology Language Engineering Societal orientation Multipurpose language & terminology infrastructure Multilingual Information Society
Multilingual Society
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Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Amsterdam (Mathematics & Informatics) Research groups
Research within CWI is organised into the following clusters:
Probability, Networks and Algorithms
Software Engineering
Modelling, Analysis and Computing
Information Systems
Each cluster consists of three or four groups.
Probability, Networks and Algorithms
Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization
Probability and Stochastic Networks
Cryptology
Algorithms and Complexity
Software Engineering
Software Analysis and Transformation
Foundations of Software Engineering
Multi-agent and Adaptive Computation
Distributed and Interactive Systems
Modelling, Analysis and Computing
Computational and stochastic dynamics
Scientific Computing and Control Theory
Multiscale Modelling and Nonlinear Dynamics
Life Sciences
Information Systems
Database Architectures
Interactive Information Access
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Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο (ΕΜΠ) National Technical University (NTUA)
Τομέας Υδατικών Πόρων και Περιβάλλοντος
Ο Τομέας Υδατικών Πόρων και Περιβάλλοντος ιδρύθηκε το 1982, με γνωστικό αντικείμενο τη μελέτη, από ποσοτική και ποιοτική άποψη, του υδάτινου περιβάλλοντος και των συναφών έργων Πολιτικού Μηχανικού. Καλύπτει εκπαιδευτικά και ερευνητικά (…)
Εφαρμοσμένης Υδραυλικής
Λιμενικών Έργων
Υγειονομικής Τεχνολογίας
Υδρολογίας και Αξιοποίησης Υδατικών Πόρων
Επιστημονικές και τεχνολογικές περιοχές
Μηχανική ρευστών, υδραυλική των επιφανειακών, υπογείων και θαλασσίων υδάτων
Τεχνική υδρολογία, αξιοποίηση και διαχείριση των υδατικών πόρων
Υδαυλικά έργα, φράγματα και υδροηλεκτρικά έργα
Λιμενικά παράκτια και θαλάσσια έργα
Ρύπανση και προστασία του παράκτιου περιβάλλοντος, υγειονομική τεχνολογία και οικολογία.
Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering was established in 1982. The main scientific areas dealt with by the Department relate to both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the aquatic environment and the related civil (….)
Applied Hydraulics Laboratory
Harbour Works Laboratory
Sanitary Engineering Laboratory
Hydrology and Water Resources Utilization Laboratory
Scientific and technological areas
Fluid Mechanics; Surface, groundwater and maritime hydraulics
Engineering hydrology; Development and management of water resources
Hydraulic works; Dams; Hydropower plants
Ports, coastal and offshore engineering
Ecology; Sanitary engineering; Pollution and protection of the Environment.
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Conversion to English-Taught Programmes in European Higher Education, % of total programmes
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ETP's
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International conferences to discuss national languages for HE and science
Brussels, 2008 (Dutch/English) Ljubljana, 2010 (Slovenian/English) Tallinn, 2011 (Estonian/English)
Future events: measures to facilitate use of national
languages for HE and science: such as publishing in the national languages
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Terminology infrastructure implementation Absolute goal: the availability of high quality terminology
for all purposes for all languages, in an international context
EU and national agencies to monitor & promote EU and national terminology service centres (TSCs) Networks of domain specialists, clustered by sector Terminology publishers Standards bodies Associations of terminology professionals Research: terminometrics, ontology, coding ..
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EU and governments: respond to needs!
pursue real needs: less experiments, more implementation
citizens take part in societies that are increasingly complex linguistically
professionals of all kinds in all countries speaking many languages
societies employing more efficient and effective languages perform better.
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European LegislationCitations from the Union Treaty
(Preamble, 1957, Heads of State...)
DESIRING to deepen the solidarity between their peoples while respecting their history, their cultures and their traditions
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