European Language Grid: A Joint Platform for the European Language Technology Community (2021.eacl-demos)
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Georg Rehm, Stelios Piperidis, Kalina Bontcheva, Jan Hajic, Victoria Arranz, Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Gerhard Backfried, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Ulrich Germann, Rémi Calizzano, Nils Feldhus, Stefanie Hegele, Florian Kintzel, Katrin Marheinecke, Julian Moreno-Schneider, Dimitris Galanis, Penny Labropoulou, Miltos Deligiannis, Katerina Gkirtzou, Athanasia Kolovou, Dimitris Gkoumas, Leon Voukoutis, Ian Roberts, Jana Hamrlova, Dusan Varis, Lukas Kacena, Khalid Choukri, Valérie Mapelli, Mickaël Rigault, Julija Melnika, Miro Janosik, Katja Prinz, Andres Garcia-Silva, Cristian Berrio, Ondrej Klejch, Steve Renals
| Challenge: | Europe is a multilingual society, in which dozens of languages are spoken. |
| Approach: | They describe the European Language Grid, 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. |
| Outcome: | The European Language Grid (ELG) will provide access to 1300 services for all European languages as well as thousands of data sets. |
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