Authors
Georg Rehm, Katrin Marheinecke, Stefanie Hegele, Stelios Piperidis, Kalina Bontcheva, Jan Hajic, Khalid Choukri, Andrejs Vasiljevs, Gerhard Backfried, Christoph Prinz, José Manuél Gómez-Pérez, Luc Meertens, Paul Lukowicz, Josef van Genabith, Andrea Lösch, Philipp Slusallek, Morten Irgens, Patrick Gatellier, Joachim Köhler, Laure Le Bars, Dimitra Anastasiou, Albina Auksoriute, Núria Bel, António Branco, Gerhard Budin, Walter Daelemans, Koenraad De Smedt, Radovan Garabík, Maria Gavriilidou, Dagmar Gromann, Svetla Koeva, Simon Krek, Cvetana Krstev, Krister Lindén, Bernardo Magnini, Jan Odijk, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Mike Rosner, Bolette S. Pedersen, Inguna Skadina, Marko Tadic, Dan Tufis, Tamás Váradi, Kadri Vider, Andy Way, 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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