Dear Apertiumers, please consider supporting this open letter to the European Commission. It's current wording is not my favourite, as it talks only about some of the languages in Europe, and it is therefore a bit out of focus, but it is a start, and I have signed it.
Best regards Mikel -=-------------------------------------------------------------- Inici del missatge reenviat: Data: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 13:30:50 +0100 Desde: Georg Rehm <[email protected]> A: META-NET Office <[email protected]> Assumpte: Please Sign and Circulate: Open Letter to the EC Dear colleagues, we would like to ask you for your support of an Open Letter to the EC, requesting to address the multilingual challenge in their forthcoming Strategy on the Digital Single Market (DSM) <http://multilingualeurope.eu/>. Our open letter is a response from the Language (Technology) community – including Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Data, Knowledge, Cognitive Science, Multilingualism etc. – to the EC consultations for their DSM Strategy. Unfortunately, there is a very severe danger that our field is completely vanishing from the EC priorities. Currently it’s not yet part of the strategic priorities of EC Vice President Andrus Ansip – we’re trying to change that. Language Technology has already been removed from the Horizon 2020 Work Programme for 2016/2017. We must act immediately! Otherwise our field won’t be recognised by the EC for the foreseeable future. This is why we would like to ask you to support our Open Letter which is online for signing at: http://multilingualeurope.eu <http://multilingualeurope.eu/> If you agree with our appeal, please sign the letter and circulate this message to your colleagues, friends and networks. We have to collect as many signatures as possible by the beginning of next week. We will then inform all Commissioners about this letter. On Wednesday (March 25), VP Andrus Ansip will discuss the DSM priorities with his DSM Project Team. The next few days are our only chance to get the EC's attention. Let’s use it! Your support is very much needed! Please circulate this message widely. Hope to see many of you at our Riga Summit 2015 on the Multilingual Digital Single Market: META-FORUM 2015 (April 27), the Plenary Day (April 28), the Multilingual Web Workshop 2015 (April 29) – and more! Please register your attendance at http://www.rigasummit2015.eu <http://www.rigasummit2015.eu/> (participation is free of charge). Thank you very much for your support! Best wishes, Georg Rehm -- Dr. Georg Rehm META-NET, Network Manager <http://www.meta-net.eu/> <http://www.facebook.com/georg.rehm> <http://de.linkedin.com/in/georgrehm> <https://www.xing.com/profile/Georg_Rehm2> DFKI GmbH <http://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 – Mobile: +49 173 2735829 [email protected] – [email protected] Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender), Dr. Walter Olthoff Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 -- Mikel L. Forcada <[email protected]> http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/ +34 96 590 9776 Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat d'Alacant E-03071 Alacant (Spain)
Dear colleagues, Our open letter is a response from the Language (Technology) community – including Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Data, Knowledge, Cognitive Science, Multilingualism etc. – to the EC consultations for their DSM Strategy. Unfortunately, there is a very severe danger that our field is completely vanishing from the EC priorities. Currently it’s not yet part of the strategic priorities of EC Vice President Andrus Ansip – we’re trying to change that. Language Technology has already been removed from the Horizon 2020 Work Programme for 2016/2017. We must act immediately! Otherwise our field won’t be recognised by the EC for the foreseeable future. This is why we would like to ask you to support our Open Letter which is online for signing at: If you agree with our appeal, please sign the letter and circulate this message to your colleagues, friends and networks. We have to collect as many signatures as possible by the beginning of next week. We will then inform all Commissioners about this letter. On Wednesday (March 25), VP Andrus Ansip will discuss the DSM priorities with his DSM Project Team. The next few days are our only chance to get the EC's attention. Let’s use it! Your support is very much needed! Please circulate this message widely. Hope to see many of you at our Riga Summit 2015 on the Multilingual Digital Single Market: META-FORUM 2015 (April 27), the Plenary Day (April 28), the Multilingual Web Workshop 2015 (April 29) – and more! Please register your attendance at http://www.rigasummit2015.eu (participation is free of charge). Thank you very much for your support! Best wishes, Georg Rehm --
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