6 research outputs found
European Language Grid: An Overview
With 24 official EU and many additional languages, multilingualism in Europe and an inclusive Digital Single Market can only be enabled through Language Technologies (LTs). European LT business is dominated by hundreds of SMEs and a few large players. Many are world-class, with technologies that outperform the global players. However, European LT business is also fragmented – by nation states, languages, verticals and sectors, significantly holding back its impact. The European Language Grid (ELG) project addresses this fragmentation by establishing the ELG as the primary platform for LT in Europe. The ELG is a scalable cloud platform, providing, in an easy-to-integrate way, access to hundreds of commercial and non-commercial LTs for all European languages, including running tools and services as well as data sets and resources. Once fully operational, it will enable the commercial and non-commercial European LT community to deposit and upload their technologies and data sets into the ELG, to deploy them through the grid, and to connect with other resources. The ELG will boost the Multilingual Digital Single Market towards a thriving European LT community, creating new jobs and opportunities. Furthermore, the ELG project organises two open calls for up to 20 pilot projects. It also sets up 32 national competence centres and the European LT Council for outreach and coordination purposes
European Language Grid: A Joint Platform for the European Language Technology Community
Europe is a multilingual society, in which dozens of languages are spoken. The only option to enable and to benefit from multilingualism is through Language Technologies (LT), i.e., Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies. We describe the European Language Grid (ELG), which is targeted to evolve into the primary platform and marketplace for LT in Europe by providing one umbrella platform for the European LT landscape, including research and industry, enabling all stakeholders to upload, share and distribute their services, products and resources. At the end of our EU project, which will establish a legal entity in 2022, the ELG will provide access to approx. 1300 services for all European languages as well as thousands of data sets
Interoperable Metadata Bridges to the wider Language Technology Ecosystem
One of the objectives of the European Language Grid is to help overcome
the fragmentation of the European Language Technology community by bringing
together language resources and technologies, information about them, Language
Technology consumers, providers and the wider public. This chapter describes the
mechanisms ELG has put in place to build interoperable bridges to related initiatives,
infrastructures, platforms and repositories in the wider Language Technology
landscape. We focus on the different approaches implemented for the exchange of
metadata records about, in a generic sense, resources and exemplify them with the
help of four use cases through which the ELG catalogue has been further populated.
The chapter presents the protocols used for the population processes as well as the
adaptations of the ELG metadata schema and platform policies that proved necessary
to be able to ingest these new records. Last, we discuss the challenges emerging
in large-scale metadata aggregation processes and propose a number of alternative
options to address them