Jean Senellart is the chairman of SYSTRAN, leading company in automated translation solutions for the last 50 years. Graduated from France Ecole Polytechnique and with a PhD on both language and computer science, Jean has been dedicating his work career to SYSTRAN, leading the development through the different generations of machine translation up to Neural Machine Translation in 2016. Cofounder of OpenNMT, the most popular open source frame dedicated to Neural Machine Translation, Jean is now striving to design solutions for breaking the language barrier and to provide language experts, language learners and language lovers with the amazing abilities coming from the neural technology.

Software Engineer, Head of the AI Team at Memsource. Ales joined Memsource in spring 2017 as the first member of the artificial intelligence (AI) team. He works on integrating smart solutions based on machine learning and AI in the Memsource platform. Before joining the company, he was an academic researcher. His primary research topic was machine translation.

Nataša Pavlović is an associate professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she teaches translation theory and practice. She holds a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. Her research interests include translation process research, translator education, and translation technology, in particular machine translation and post-editing.

Margita Šoštarić is a recent graduate from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and currently works at Omega Software, a software development company in Zagreb. Her research interests span from the more theoretical approaches to language, such as cognitive linguistics, to the direct applications of language processing, such as machine translation.

Filip Boltužić is a PhD researcher  in the Text Analysis and Knowledge Engineering Lab (TakeLab) in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. His main research interests are natural language processing and argument mining. Prior to joining TakeLab, he worked at Zagrebačka banka Unicreditgroup as a data analyst and Amazon Data Services Ireland as a software development engineer.

Rodolfo Maslias is born in Thessaloniki (GR) in 1957. He studied languages, German, French and Spanish and speaks also Italian, Dutch and English. He post-graduated in Giessen (D) in the German Classical Theatre (schiller) and Romanistik. He entered as translator in the European Parliament in 1981 and works since then in the Directorate General for Translation. With secondments or as external activity he worked for culture as Director of the International Programme of “Thessaloniki, European Capital of Culture 1997”, Head of Cabinet of the Minister of Culture and cultural advisor to the Mayor of Athens and was elected for ten years Coordinator of the Network of European Capitals of Culture. In 2008 he was asked to create the Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament. He teaches Terminology in Master Courses in several Universities and is member of the Bureau of TermNet and of several scientific committees in the field of Terminology. He has published books on culture, terminology, as well as essays and poems.

Denis Dechandon has over 20 years’ experience in translation and linguistics, in office automation and in different management roles. After getting acquainted with the translation work and its requirements at EU level, he fully committed himself to the definition and implementation of processes and workflows to provide structured and efficient support to linguists and to streamline the work of support teams.

Previously in his last role, Denis was responsible for leading a service dedicated to the linguistic and technical support provided to translators, revisers, editors, captioners and  subtitlers (Computer Assisted Translation, corpus management, formatting and layouting, machine translation and terminology). Additionally, he supervised the maintenance and development of tools and linguistic resources at the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union. Committed to further changes and evolutions in these fields, Denis took over the role of InterActive Terminology for Europe (IATE) Tool Manager from May 2015 to August 2017.

In his current role as Head of the Metadata sector of the Publications Office of the European Union, he is leading the activities in standardization (in particular: EuroVoc and registry of metadata) as well as intensely involved in the field of linked open data at the Publications Office of the European Union. Latest projects involve the development of synergies between several different stakeholders, such as EU institutions, agencies and bodies, international organisations and national public services.

Maria Recort Ruiz is a philologist, translator and terminologist who works as Document Services Coordinator and Terminology Manager at the International Labour Organization in Geneva. She is responsible for the production and management of official documents, management of terminology work and the use of new CATT tools to improve working methods. She holds a Degree in Slavic Philology from the University of Barcelona, where she specialized in Russian and Polish Language and Literature, and Linguistics; a Master in French and Comparative Literature (19th-20th centuries) from the University of Montpellier, where she conducted research on the roman populaire at the beginning of the 20th century; and a Master in Specialized Translation from the University of Geneva. Before joining the ILO, she worked as a freelance translator and editor for international organizations and the private sector.

Anikó Gerencsér holds a Master`s Degree in Library and Information Science and a PhD in Italian Language and Literature from the University ELTE of Budapest.

Since joining the Publications Office of the European Union she has been working in the field of metadata standardisation and linked open data management. Her particular area of responsibility is the co-maintenance of the EuroVoc multilingual thesaurus and its alignment with other controlled vocabularies. She currently works on the optimisation of the thesaurus management tool Vocbench3 which involves analysing users` needs and improving collaborative features. She is in charge of providing presentations, consultancy and trainings regarding the use of VocBench3 for EU institutions. In addition she strongly contributes to an on-going project that aims to achieve interoperability between controlled vocabularies by sharing common tools and formats for the creation, use and maintenance of vocabularies and taxonomies.

Having a background in automated productivity, Jean-François Richard has worked in the field of computer aided translation tools for the last thirty years. Through different experiences of work, he acquires expertise in translation memory systems, terminology extraction tools, terminology management, machine translation, full text, bitexts and project management systems. During his career, he develops SynchroTerm, a powerful terminology extraction tool allowing the feeding of terminology databases from translated documents. In September 2006, Jean-François Richard joined the Terminotix team where he occupied the Sales Director position. In April 2010, he acquired Terminotix and since then, he is the president of the company. Under his leadership, the company has grown at a rate of more than 20% per year.

Terminotix is a software development company that helps linguistic services and language service providers increase performance by automating and enhancing the translation process. Terminotix helps translators, revisers, coordinators and terminologists increase their productivity by up to 50% with a complete suite of products designed and optimized for language professionals.

Maria Stasimioti is a PhD candidate in the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting at the Ionian University. She holds a BA in Translation Studies and an MA in Theory and Didactics of Translation from the same university. She has been working as a freelance translator and proofreader since 2010. She has taught Computer-Assisted-Translation and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) at the Ionian University. She has also participated in the EU-funded project TraMOOC (Translation of Massive Open Online Courses, https://tramooc.eu/ ). Her research interests lie in the areas of Machine Translation (NMT, SMT), Computer-Assisted-Translation (CAT) and Post Editing (PE).

Dr Vilelmini Sosoni is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting at the Ionian University in Corfu, Greece, where she teaches Legal and Economic Translation, EU texts Translation and Terminology, Translation Technology, Translation Project Management and Audiovisual Translation (AVT). In the past, she taught Specialised Translation in the UK at the University of Surrey, the University of Westminster and Roehampton University, and in Greece at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Institut Français d’ Athènes.  She also has extensive industrial experience having worked as translator, editor and subtitler.

She holds a BA in English Language and Linguistics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, an MA in Translation and a PhD in Translation and Text Linguistics from the University of Surrey. Her research interests lie in the areas of Corpus Linguistics, Machine Translation (MT), Cognitive Studies, Translation of Institutional Texts and AVT. She is a founding member of the Research Lab “Language and Politics” of the Ionian University and a member of the “Centre for Research in Translation and Transcultural Studies” of Roehampton University. She has participated in several EU-funded projects, notably TraMOOC, Eurolect Observatory and Training Action for Legal Practitioners: Linguistic Skills and Translation in EU Competition Law, while she has edited several volumes and books on translation and published numerous articles in international journals and collective volumes.

Christopher Gledhill is Professor of English Linguistics at the Université Paris Diderot (Paris, France) where he is currently director of Languages for Specialists of all Disciplines (LANSAD), coordinator of Masters in Applied Foreign Languages (Mention LEA) and cocoordinator with Natalie Kübler of a research Masters in Languages for Specific Purposes, Corpus Linguistics and Translation studies (Master LSCT). He currently teaches and conducts research in interlinguistics, specialised translation, phraseology, systemic functional grammar and text linguistics.

Maria Zimina-Poirot is Associate Professor in English Language Studies at Paris Diderot (Université Paris Diderot). She holds a PhD in Language Studies and Linguistics from Paris 3 – Sorbonne nouvelle University (2004). Her PhD thesis focused on developing new tools for textometric exploration of multilingual text corpora. Between 2005-20012 she worked as a teaching and research assistant at Paris Nord – Paris 13 University, INaLCO, INSERM, etc. and as a technical writer for Orange Business Services (Paris). Her current teaching and research activities concern textometric analysis of multilingual corpora, text typologies, controlled languages, terminology, technical writing and computer-aided translation.

Marion Kaczmarek is a PhD student in both linguistics and computer sciences, in the quite particular field of Sign Language. Former French Sign Language Interpreter, trained at the University of Rouen (France) where she also graduated with a Language Sciences Master’s degree, her studies have led her from cognitive sciences to Sign Language linguistics. Her PhD involves both Sign Language Translation and CAT software, trying to find ways of equipping the Sign Language translators with computer assistance. Her work started in 2018, joining the CNRS (the French nation scientific research center) and other associates on a more global project concerning media accessibility.

Marion Kaczmarek is a PhD student in both linguistics and computer sciences, in the quite particular field of Sign Language. Former French Sign Language Interpreter, trained at the University of Rouen (France) where she also graduated with a Language Sciences Master’s degree, her studies have led her from cognitive sciences to Sign Language linguistics. Her PhD involves both Sign Language Translation and CAT software, trying to find ways of equipping the Sign Language translators with computer assistance. Her work started in 2018, joining the CNRS (the French nation scientific research center) and other associates on a more global project concerning media accessibility.

Michael Filhol is a computer scientist who has always been passionate about languages and linguistics. He naturally turned to NLP in his studies, which took place in France and Ireland after the year 2000, always learning new languages and comparing how they work as a side hobby.

He chose to focus on Sign Language for his PhD, the most exotic linguistic system he knew, and which he had been learning since high school. Largely still unknown to science and virtually absent in the NLP field, he addressed and proposed a formal description model of signs for Sign Language synthesis by 3D avatars. He defended his PhD in 2008 at Université Paris Sud (Orsay, France), and continued his research career on Sign Language processing.

He stayed for a post-doctoral year at Gallaudet University (Washington, DC, USA), where all classes and services are accessible in Sign Language, and some of the most famous researchers on Sign linguistics are hosted. Back in France, he got his permanent researcher position at CNRS (the French national scientific research centre), where he kept working on the formal description and computer implementation of Sign Language.

He eventually proposed AZee, a formal approach capturing all levels of discourse and capable of driving a 3D avatar to animate Sign from a combination of semantic operations. It is now used by the world leaders in Sign synthesis, as input for their animation platforms. While always improving and extending the coverage of the AZee approach, his research interests have grown to encompass more topics like graphical writing systems for Sign Language, or automatic and assisted text-to-Sign translation.