Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology. Machine Learning and Big Data

Position Papers.- With or without Meaning? Hype Cycles in Language Technology and what We Can Learn from Them.- Observatory for Language Resources and Machine Translation in Europe - LT Observatory.- The Rise of the Conversational Interface: A new Kid on the Block.- Spanish Language Technologies Plan.- Improving Collaboration between the European Language Technology Industry & Research: A new Framework for Supply & Demand.- Contributed Papers.- LifeLine dialogues with Roberta.- An affective utility model of user motivation for counselling dialogue systems.- Exploring flexibility in natural language generation throughout discursive analysis of new textual genres.- Bootstrapping technique + embeddings = Emotional corpus annotated automatically.- Rapid construction of a web-enabled medical speech to sign language translator using recorded video.- Incorporating syllable phonotactics to improve grapheme to phoneme translation.- Hybrid conceptual and statistical measure for semantic textualsimilarity evaluation.- General representation model for text similarity.- Extending feature decay algorithms using alignment entropy.- Towards a topic discovery and tracking system with application to news items.