The European Language Data Space and the Institute of Estonian Language are bringing together experts from the Estonian Industry, Public Administration and Research to discuss the importance of language data for the development of Language Technologies and AI-based tools in Estonia.
- digital single market | large language model | natural language processing | artificial intelligence
- Wednesday 11 June 2025, 09:00 - 15:45 (EEST)
- Tallinn, Estonia
Programme
- 11 Jun 2025, 09:00 - 09:30 (EEST)Registration
Institute of the Estonian Language
- 09:30 - 09:40 (EEST)Welcome and introduction
Kadri Vare
Institute of the Estonian Language - 09:40 - 09:50 (EEST)Welcome speech by the Institute of the Estonian Language
Arvi Tavast
Director - 09:50 - 10:00 (EEST)Welcome speech by the Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs
Ott Velsberg
Government Chief Data Officer - 10:00 - 10:30 (EEST)Welcome by the European Commission: The Digital Europe Programme and the Common European Language Data Space
Philippe Gelin
DG CONNECT, European Commission - 10:30 - 11:00 (EEST)European Language Data Space: developing a market for language data and services and benefitting from a joint European effort
Andrejs Vasiļjevs
Tilde - 11:00 - 11:20 (EEST)Coffee Break
- 11:20 - 11:50 (EEST)The importance of language data for the development of Language Technology solutions
Kairit Sirts
University of Tartu - 11:50 - 12:50 (EEST)Panel Session: Language Data and Language Technologies in Estonia and for Estonian
Martin Eessalu, Institute of the Estonian Language (Moderator)
Maria-Kristiina Soomre, Ministry of Culture
Kristel Kriisa, AI Adviser
Silver Traat, TEXTA
Kairit Sirts, University of Tartu
Astra Tuuna, Avita
Kristjan Oad, Kingmaker PR - 12:50 - 13:40 (EEST)Lunch Break
- 13:40 - 14:00 (EEST)Data Spaces and the Estonian Context
Kuldar Aas
Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs - 14:00 - 15:00 (EEST)Panel Session: Shaping the Language Data Market
Arvi Tavast, Institute of the Estonian Language (Moderator)
Inge Rätsep, Interlex
Martin Havik, MM Grupp/MM Pharma
Kelly Lilles, ALPA Kids
Risto Hinno, Feelingstream
Tarmo Jüristo, SALK - 15:00 - 15:05 (EEST)Conclusions and Call to Action
Arvi Tavast
Institute of the Estonian Language - 15:05 - 15:45 (EEST)Coffee and Networking
Practical information
- When
- Wednesday 11 June 2025, 09:00 - 15:45 (EEST)
- Where
- Institute of the Estonian LanguageRoosikrantsi tn 6, 10119 Tallinn, Estonia
- Who should attend
- The workshop is open to everybody and is mainly addressed to data owners and data providers, LT developers and SMEs, as well as to public administration executives, officers and partners.
- Languages
- Estonian, English
- Organisers
- Institute of the Estonian Language | European Language Data Space
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