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The European Language Technology Landscape in 2020: Language-Centric and Human-Centric AI for Cross-Cultural Communication in Multilingual Europe

Andrejs Vasiļjevs
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Gerhard Backfried
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Christoph Prinz
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José Manuel Gómez Pérez
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Philipp Slusallek
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Morten Irgens
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Joachim Köhler
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Laure Le Bars
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Dimitra Anastasiou
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Albina Auksoriūtė
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Núria Bel
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António Branco
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Gerhard Budin
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Koenraad de Smedt
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Radovan Garabík
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Maria Gavriilidou
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Dagmar Gromann
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Cvetana Krstev
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Bernardo Magnini
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Jan Odijk
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Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson
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Mike Rosner
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Bolette Sandford Pedersen
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Inguna Skadiņa
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Marko Tadić
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Kadri Vider
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François Yvon

Abstract

Multilingualism is a cultural cornerstone of Europe and firmly anchored in the European treaties including full language equality. However, language barriers impacting business, cross-lingual and cross-cultural communication are still omnipresent. Language Technologies (LTs) are a powerful means to break down these barriers. While the last decade has seen various initiatives that created a multitude of approaches and technologies tailored to Europe's specific needs, there is still an immense level of fragmentation. At the same time, AI has become an increasingly important concept in the European Information and Communication Technology area. For a few years now, AI-including many opportunities, synergies but also misconceptions-has been overshadowing every other topic. We present an overview of the European LT landscape, describing funding programmes, activities, actions and challenges in the different countries with regard to LT, including the current state of play in industry and the LT market. We present a brief overview of the main LT-related activities on the EU level in the last ten years and develop strategic guidance with regard to four key dimensions.
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hal-02892154 , version 1 (17-07-2020)

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Georg Rehm, Katrin Marheinecke, Stefanie Hegele, Stelios Piperidis, Kalina Bontcheva, et al.. The European Language Technology Landscape in 2020: Language-Centric and Human-Centric AI for Cross-Cultural Communication in Multilingual Europe. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, ELDA/ELRA, May 2020, Marseille, France. ⟨hal-02892154⟩
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