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Introducing the digital language equality metric: technological factors

Gaspari, Federico orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-3808-8418, Gallagher, Owen, Rehm, Georg orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-7800-1893, Giagkou, Maria orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9701-0656, Piperidis, Stelios, Dunne, Jane and Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2022) Introducing the digital language equality metric: technological factors. In: Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 20 June 2022, Marseille, France.

Abstract
This paper introduces the concept of Digital Language Equality (DLE) developed by the EU-funded European Language Equality (ELE) project, and describes the associated DLE Metric with a focus on its technological factors (TFs), which are complemented by situational contextual factors. This work aims at objectively describing the level of technological support of all European languages and lays the foundation to implement a large-scale EU-wide programme to ensure that these languages can continue to exist and prosper in the digital age, to serve the present and future needs of their speakers. The paper situates this ongoing work with a strong European focus in the broader context of related efforts, and explains how the DLE Metric can help track the progress towards DLE for all languages of Europe, focusing in particular on the role played by the TFs. These are derived from the European Language Grid (ELG) Catalogue, that provides the empirical basis to measure the level of digital readiness of all European languages. The DLE Metric scores can be consulted through an online interactive dashboard to show the level of technological support of each European language and track the overall progress toward DLE.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Workshop
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Digital Language Equality; Technological Factors; Language Resources; Tools; Technologies; Europe
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial intelligence
Humanities > Language
Humanities > Translating and interpreting
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT
Published in: Proceedings of the Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. . European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Publisher:European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Official URL:https://aclanthology.org/2022.tdle-1.1
Copyright Information:© 2022 European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Funders:European Union under grant agreement no. LC01641480 – 101018166., Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centres Programme (Grant No. 13/RC/2106), European Regional Development Fund
ID Code:28374
Deposited On:26 May 2023 10:45 by Federico Gaspari . Last Modified 26 May 2023 10:45
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