1. Emerging Technologies & Language FET-Open The European Future and Emerging Technologies Open Scheme FIL2010 Louvain-La-Neuve, March 17 th 2010 Paul Hearn - Scientific Officer FET-Open Unit - European Commission

2. Risky, new ideas with long-term visionary impact on ICT Unconventional and 'first-ever' research targeted at a key breakthrough High up-front risk of failure, countered by a plausible trans-disciplinary research concept and approach Strong potential for long-term impact on ICT within a plausible but new or non-conventional long-term vision (technological, societal, environmental,…) Catalytic role – stimulation of changes necessary for such research to be successful in Europe FET-Open: Incubator for radically new research ideas & emerging research communities What are we looking for in FET-Open?

3. What is ‘open’ about FET-Open? no pre-defined themes open 24/7 (continuous call) unbiased entry point (anonymous evaluation of “short” proposals). short & full stages lower adminstrative & bureaucratic burden

4. FET-Open: 2-step submission and evaluation Short proposal –5 pages maximum –anonymous Full proposal –~30 pages –Not anonymous Negotiation Project Anytime Fixed ‘cut-off’

5. FET-Open: Best place for visionary ideas with long-term impact fet-open call call for high-tech research intensive SMEs call for young explorers the fet conference http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009/ the caFETeria network http://cafeteria.ning.com/ You?

6. Emerging technologies & language the power of the www multidisciplinary advances data structure & semantics rich usage richer data sources – EEG, ultrasound, ambient sensors psycholinguistics phonetics better, cheaper automated translation e.g. relying on online data collections more efficient human translation following e.g. mechanical turk inspiration automatic ontologies e.g. wikipedia generated frontier research in language more naturalistic sw, e.g. for translator workbench-style tools better opportunities to discover intricacies of e.g. vocal tract dynamics grammar artificial programming and modelling languages lesser studied languages specific ontologies e.g. spatial social signal processing social psychology non-verbal cues machine translation e.g. improved algorithms for statistically-based MT speech recognition & synthesis incl. silent speech nlp paralinguistic data giving better context – is this the right time to give the user a spoken message? (One view from where I sit) psychology anthropology biology/evolution machine & human learning, argumentation, dialogue, decision making strategies soft communication skills listening strategies web applications folksonomies discourse analysis computer-generated storytelling social tagging predictive texting spoken translation language acquisition knowledge acquisition & learning neuroscience computation modelling of communication natural interfaces & dialogue strategies data mining

7. Top 9 reasons why proposals fail Current experience shows that short proposals submitted to FET-OPEN have practically no chance of success in the following cases: 1. The proposal addresses an incremental advance of the state-of-the-art in ICT, rather than a breakthrough. 2. The proposal does not address an emerging scientific discipline in ICT. An emerging scientific discipline is one in which not much is currently known and the bulk needs still to be discovered. 3. You are submitting to the FET-OPEN scheme simply because there is no call currently open which would be more relevant for your type of research. 4. No scientific research is described in the proposal. 5. The proposal does not focus on ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) related research, e.g. ICT technology is only a tool for your research and in reality the proposal targets a different area. 6. The proposal addresses a problem which is likely to be solved in the short term. 7. The proposal reacts to and offers a solution to an immediate market need. 8. You submitted a similar proposal to another ICT call, but you were unsuccessful for reasons other than your research being too long-term oriented. 9. The proposal does not provide enough information to judge expected progress with respect to the state-of-the-art.

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9. For more inspiration Think about the opportunity Contact us with your breakthough ideas paul.hearn@ec.europa.eu infso-fetopen@ec.europa.eu http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-open/home_en.html