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Infographics: Our languages - Opportunities and Threats
6 December 2012
We've produced some more infographics. This time highlighting the opportunities and threats to our languages. Please feel free to share and reuse the images with a link back to this site. There's also this larger graphic which combines all of the (...)
Infographic: LT Unlocks the Single Digital Market
16 November 2012
We've produced an infographic highlighting the opportunity for growth of the European digital market through Language Technology. Please feel free to share and reuse the image with a link back to this site. Full Size Image Use this code to embed this infographic in your own site The (...)
Data Liberation Campaign
12 November 2012
Recently we conducted an internal survey to find out about the existence and availability of national corpora (or similar) for the various European languages covered by our network. The results of this small study showed that for almost every European language there exists some reference corpus (...)
HLT Days 2012
7 September 2012
We are very pleased to announce the Human Language Technology Days 2012 international event to be held on 27–28 September 2012 in Warsaw. The event is organised by the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Łódź in the framework of the ICT-PSP project (...)
META-FORUM 2012 – Report and Videos now online
4 September 2012
Earlier this year, on June 20/21, hundreds of people from the extended Language Technology community gathered in Brussels for META-NET’s annual conference event – META-FORUM. Among them not only researchers keen to discuss their work, but also representatives of language communities, national and (...)
CHAT 2012: Call for Participation
31 May 2012
CHAT 2012 web page CHAT 2012 programme Every day the volume of terminology is growing along with the increasing volume of information available on the web. Efficient terminology acquisition and management has become an essential component of intelligible translation, localization, technical (...)
UK Research Funding Body Recognises the Potential of LT Thanks to META-NET’s Vision Paper
4 May 2012
The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) recently conducted a review of which subject areas to 'grow', 'maintain' or 'reduce', in terms of the proportion of the total EPSRC portfolio. Recognising the multidisciplinary nature of Natural Language Processing and the (...)
Portuguese Prime Minister praises META-NET
1 December 2011
Last week META-NET partners from the University of Lisbon participated in the 21st Communications Congress, organized by the APDC- Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento das Comunicações (Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications), where they showcased META-NET’s work and (...)
META-NET Network Meeting and General Assembly
28 October 2011
On Friday and Saturday October 21st and 22nd last META-NETizens from all across Europe came together in Berlin for the first META-NET Network Meeting and General Assembly. In total 93 participants attended the meetings representing every node in the META-NET Network of Excellence incorporating (...)
European Day of Languages promotes Multilingualism
26 September 2011
Since the latter half of the 20th century and right up to the present day the society in which we live in has changed dramatically. Advances in medicine have extended our lives. Economic and social changes have shaped the way we work and live. Improvements in technology and increased access (...)
META-FORUM 2011: Videos of Presentations
6 September 2011
At the end of June 2011 our annual conference META-FORUM took place in Budapest, Hungary. We've now processed and uploaded to YouTube videos of (almost) all presentations. Links to the videos are available on the META-FORUM 2011 programme (...)
Multilingual Semantic Web Workshop
29 July 2011
Our colleagues from the project Monnet are organising a workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web at the International Semantic Web Conference in Bonn, Germany (October 23/24): Multilingualism has become an issue of major interest for the Semantic Web community, in light of the substantial (...)
Are Europe’s Languages in Danger?
23 June 2011
META-FORUM 2011 sends a mix of alarming and optimistic messages META-FORUM 2011, to be held in Budapest, Hungary on June 27/28, is an international conference on powerful technologies for the multilingual European information society and an official event of the Hungarian EU Presidency. (...)
More than half EU internet surfers use foreign language when online
11 May 2011
The European Commission recently conducted a study about the languages preferred by European internet users. The results of the Eurobarometer study strongly underline the need for sophisticated multilingual language technologies: While 90% of Internet surfers in the EU prefer to access websites (...)
META-NET Vision Paper Updated
25 April 2011
Today we published an updated version of our vision paper The Future European Multilingual Information Society. Have a look and discuss our technology visions for multilingual Europe, realised by sophisticated Language Technology, in our online discussion (...)
META-FORUM 2011: Registration now open
21 April 2011
We just opened the registration for our upcoming conference META-FORUM 2011 – Solutions for Multilingual Europe. The conference will take place in Budapest, Hungary, on June 27/28 and it is an official event of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union. Registration is free (...)
META-NET in Industry Journal "Multilingual"
18 April 2011
We're very happy that our article about META-NET, Multilingual Europe: A challenge for language tech, has been published in MultiLingual (issue April/May 2011, page 51/52). Speaking one’s mother tongue, be it Latvian, Hungarian, or Portuguese, must not become a social or economic disadvantage in (...)
Workshop at GSCL 2011: "Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe"
5 April 2011
The Workshop aims at bringing various groups together who are concerned with the broad topic of "Language Technology for a multilingual Europe". This encompasses on the one hand representatives from research and development in the field of language technologies, on the other hand users from (...)
Article on META-NET in LIBREAS
4 April 2011
Together with Aljoscha Burchardt and Felix Sasaki we wrote an article on META-NET that was published in LIBREAS – Library Ideas, Das mehrsprachige Europa: eine Herausforderung für die Sprachtechnologie. The article is written in German but of course you can use one of the freely available (...)
Vision Document: Call for Discussion
24 March 2011
An important intermediate result of the META-VISION process is the document The Future European Multilingual Information Society (PDF). This document is joint work by roughly 100 representatives of the European and also international Language Technology landscape. The document presents the (...)
META-NET celebrates the Opening of the W3C German-Austrian Office at DFKI
3 February 2011
On February 10th, META-NET will be among those celebrating the launch of the W3C German-Austrian Office at its new location: DFKI Berlin. The W3C German-Austrian Office launch event will be an excellent opportunity to demonstrate how European research and various industries can contribute and, (...)
Grammatical Framework: Summer School
25 January 2011
Our colleagues from the MOLTO project organise a Summer School on GF, Grammatical Framework. Please find the official announcement and call for participation below. GF Summer School Frontiers of Multilingual Technologies Barcelona, 15-26 August 2011 http://school.grammaticalframework.org GF, (...)
EC announces "SME Initiative on Digital Content and Languages"
8 December 2010
The European Commission will announce a new call for proposals under objective 4.1. "SME Initiative on Digital Content and Languages" in February 2011. The SME-DCL Call makes available 35 MEUR funding for consortia that must include at least two SMEs, but which may of course include other types (...)
META-FORUM 2010: a short report
6 December 2010
META-FORUM 2010 took place on November 17 and 18, 2010 in the European capital, Brussels. This was the first large outreach event organised by META-NET, a Network of Excellence forging the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance (META). Against the backdrop of a cold and foggy autumn day (...)
Blog: Being Multilingual
25 October 2010
Madalena Cruz-Ferreira just started a new blog, Being Multilingual, in which she wants to discuss what it means to be multilingual. Madalena thinks that multilingualism is often misunderstood and that these myths and misconceptions need to be dealt with. Another crucial point Madalena notices (...)
META-FORUM 2010: Programme published
18 October 2010
META-NET is proud to announce the first META-FORUM conference event, entitled “Challenges for Multilingual Europe”. META-FORUM 2010 takes place on November 17 and 18, right in the heart of the European capital, Brussels. This event will provide a focal point for bringing together Language (...)
Collaboration between CLARIN and META-NET
17 August 2010
In August 2010 the coordinators of the EU-funded projects CLARIN and META-NET signed a memorandum of understanding. To quote the document: The Network of Excellence “Technologies for the Multilingual European Information Society”, henceforth META-NET, established by DG INFSO of the European (...)
New version of META-NET website online
30 July 2010
Today we launched a new version of the META-NET website: the core content is now available in all 11 languages represented by the META-NET consortium. In addition there's now a section called META Events with information on previous and upcoming events such as, for example, Translingual Europe (...)
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