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E-book European Language Equality : A Strategic Agenda for Digital Language Equality

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Unfortunately, language barriers still hamper cross-lingual communication andthefreeflowofknowledgeandthoughtacrosslanguagecommunitiesandcontinuetobe unbreachable in many situations. While multilingualism is one of the key culturalcornerstones of Europe and signifies part of what it means to be and to feel European,no EU policy has been proposed to address the problem of language barriers.Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Lan-guage Understanding (NLU), Language Technologies (LTs), and Speech Technolo-gies (STs) have the potential to enable multilingualism technologically but, as theMETA-NET White Paper SeriesEurope’s Languages in the Digital Age(Rehm andUszkoreit2012) found in 2012, our languages suffer from an extreme imbalance interms of technological support. English is very well supported through technologies,tools, datasets and corpora, for example, but languages such as Maltese, Estonian orIcelandic have hardly any support at all. In fact, the 2012 study assessedat least 21European languages to be in danger of digital extinction. If, as mentioned above, allEuropean languages are supposed to be on an equal footing in general, technologi-cally, they clearly are not (Kornai2013).After the findings of the META-NET study and a set of follow-up projects, stud-ies and recommendations (e.g., Rehm and Uszkoreit2013; STOA2018), the jointCULT/ITRE reportLanguage Equality in the Digital Age(European Parliament2018) was eventually passed with an overwhelming majority by the European Parlia-ment on 11 September 2018. It concerns the improvement of the institutional frame-work for LT policies at the EU level, EU research and education policies to improvethe future of LTs in Europe, and the extension of the benefits of LTs for both privatecompanies and public bodies. The resolution also recognises that there is an imbal-ance in terms of technology support of Europe’s languages, that there has been asubstantial amount of progress in research and technology development and that alarge-scale, long-term funding programme should be established to ensure full tech-nology support for all of Europe’s languages. The goal is to enable multilingualismtechnologically since “the EU and its institutions have a duty to enhance, promoteand uphold linguistic diversity in Europe” (European Parliament2018).

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

006.3 ADD e

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Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

441 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783031288197

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006.3

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Artificial Intelligence

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