2.3 Project's Events

Project's Meetings

The project meetings were held every six months and always included a day which was open to participants from outside the Consortium: the MOLTO Open Day. The talks delivered by the MOLTO project members were targeted to a generic audience with no specific background assumed except for interest in the goals of MOLTO. The presentations are all available from the project's web site.

• MOLTO Project Kickoff Meeting. 9-11 March 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
• 1st MOLTO Project Meeting. 8-10 September 2010, Varna, Bulgaria.
• 2nd MOLTO Project Meeting. 9-11 March 2011, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 3rd MOLTO Project Meeting. 31 August - 2 September 2011, Helsinki, Finland.
• MOLTO Enlarged EU (MOLTO-EEU) kickoff meeting. 12-13 January 2012, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 4th Project Meeting. 7-9 March 2012, Zürich, Switzerland.
• 5th Project Meeting with MONNET. 17-21 September, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• Final Project Meeting. 22-24 May 2013, Barcelona, Spain.

Workshops and Seminars

Additionally the project organized focused meetings:

• A. Ranta and R. Enache from UGOT gave a GF tutorial during the exchange visit to UHEL on May 4-5 2010.
• GF Meets SMT 1-5 November 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• WP3 Seminar 13-14 June 2011, Helsinki, Finland.
• FreeRBMT 2012, the Third International Workshop on Free/Open-source Rule-Based Machine Translation was organized and hosted by UGOT between 13-15 June 2012 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Public Sector Seminar 19 September 2012, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• In house GF training for Be Informed. A [2-day GF course] (http://www.molto-project.eu/biblio/slide-presentation/gf-tutorial) was given at Be Informed (Apeldoorn) 11-12 Dec 2012 by Kaarel Kaljurand from UZH. The course covered all the material of the existing GF tutorials and additionally presented some GF-based applications (multilingual CNL-based semantic wiki system developed in MOLTO, and well as GF-based speech recognition grammars and smart phone applications).
• LEMON_GF workshop on 13-14 December 2013 in Bielefeld, Germany.

Summer Schools and Tutorials

The GF Summer School is a biannual event, these were partly sponsored by the project:

• Second GF Summer School, Frontiers of Multilingual Technologies. 15-26 August 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
• FORTHCOMING: Third GF Summer School, Scaling up Grammatical Resources. 18–30 August 2013. Frauenchiemsee island, Bavaria.

A number of GF tutorials were held during the past years during which the MOLTO tools are shown and actively used:

• Creating Linguistic Resources with GF LREC 2010 Tutorial, 17 May 2010. Malta.
• Grammatical Framework: A Hands-On Introduction. Tutorial at CADE-23, 1 August 2011. Wroclaw, Poland.
• Grammatical Framework Tutorial - ICFP 2012, Copenhagen 15 September 2012
• GF Tutorial at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, October 2012 by A. Ranta, 23-24 October, 2012.