Halfway around the world

Here are some conferences about Human Language Technologies that will take place this year:
* Association for Computational Linguistics 2007:
“ACL 2007 will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, June 23rd–30th 2007.
June 25th-27th : main conference
June 23rd-24th and 28th-30th : workshops
June 24th : tutorials.“
* Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the [...]

Machine translation is “is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another. At its basic level, MT performs simple substitution of words in one natural language for words in another.”
The most known MT system are Reverso and Systran.
These are another [...]

According to the Wikipedia:

Machine translation: “is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another. “
Machine aided translation: “is a form of translation wherein a human translator translates texts using computer software designed to support and facilitate the translation process.”
Multilingual content [...]

As it is said in FEMTI’ s report: “characteristics of the translation task refers to the information flow intended for the output, from the point of view of the agent (human or otherwise) who receives the translation.“
Those characteristics are the following:

Assimilation: “ The ultimate purpose of the assimilation task (of which translation forms a part) [...]

“The capabilities of human language technology (HLT) have grown substantially in recent years, both in the research laboratory and in the commercial marketplace. There is now a wide range of applications for HLT systems such as automatic transcription of meetings, translation between languages (e.g. Arabic and English), automatic answering of questions, text mining (e.g. from [...]

Here are some definitions of Human Language Technologies that I have found:

‘Language technology comprises computational methods, computer programs and electronic devices that are specialized for analyzing, producing or modifying texts and speech. These systems must be based on some knowledge of human language. Therefore language technology defines the engineering branch of computational linguistics.‘ Language Technology [...]

I have been looking for European centres that are inmersed in this world of the Human Language Technologies, and I have found these four centres:

National Centre for Language Technology: Dublin city University: this centre ‘conducts research into the processing of human language by computers, such as speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, human-computer interfaces, [...]

Hans Uszkoreit is ‘Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University.‘ He also works as ‘Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) where he heads the DFKI Language Technology Lab.‘ And at the same time he is ‘Professor of the Computer Science Department.’
He studied ‘Linguistics and Computer Science at the Technical [...]