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*META-FORUM 2021 invites Language Technology experts to discuss European
Language Grid & Language-centric AI*
Only a few days are left until the start of META-FORUM 2021, the
international conference series on powerful and innovative Language
Technologies for the multilingual information society. The online
conference is the place to be to learn about most recent developments
and achievements in European Language Technology, both from industry and
research and including language-centric AI.
From 15-17 November, Language Technology researchers and industry
representatives are invited to learn all about “Using the European
Language Grid” and discussing the state of play in the European LT
landscape.
Search engines, voice assistants, translation services – Language
Technology is everywhere. That is, if used in English. Many other
languages, especially those with few speakers, lack the technological
support that could help preserving them in the digital world and
promoting their use, which instead increases their risk for abandonment
and digital extinction. The European Language Grid (ELG) aims to prevent
exactly this by becoming the primary Language Technology platform for
all European languages, big and small. However, supporting digital
language equality is only one of the ELG’s goals.
At META-FORUM 2021, taking place virtually from 15-17 November,
participants can learn about all the different aspects of the European
Language Grid in its function as a marketplace for the European LT
industry, as a cloud platform for research data and tools and as a point
of contact and exchange for the Language Technology community in the EU.
Titled “Using the European Language Grid”, this year’s META-FORUM
features many news and updates from the ELG project and initiative, the
outcome of the ELG pilot projects, first results and findings of the
European Language Equality project and much more.
As one of the highlights, META-FORUM 2021 will present an overview and
first demo of the upcoming Release 3 of the European Language Grid,
which will launch in early 2022. Further ones include the project expo,
opening on day 1, as well as reports from the industry, information on
current EU-funded projects in Language Technology and discussions on
building bridges to Artificial Intelligence.
"META-FORUM 2021 will be a special edition of our conference series,
summing up all the work achieved in the past three years of the ELG
project and giving an outlook on the upcoming months. I especially look
forward to the presentation of ELG Release 3, the results of the pilot
projects at the virtual expo and the session on the European Language
Equality project, which guides one of the main ideas of ELG towards a
realistic future – digital language equality in Europe by 2030.” says
Georg Rehm, coordinator of the ELG project.
The registration for META-FORUM 202
<https://www.european-language-grid.eu/meta-forum-2021>1 is, as usual,
free of charge.
For further information, the full programme and timetable and the option
to sign up, please visit our website at
https://www.european-language-grid.eu/meta-forum-2021. Current updates
about META-FORUM, the ELG and ELE projects as well as the European
Language Technology landscape are shared through the European Language
Technology social media channels on Twitter and LinkedIn and featured in
the ELT Newsletter.
*Overview*
META-FORUM 2021 - Using the European Language Grid
15-17 November, 2021 Online Conference
Free of charge
*Programme, info and registration:*
*https://www.european-language-grid.eu/meta-forum-2021*
*Contact*
Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm
Coordinator European Language Grid
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Speech and Language Technology (SLT)
[email protected]
+49 30 23895 1833
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