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
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*Dr. Georg Rehm*
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