Papers by Andrea Lösch
The European Language Technology Landscape in 2020: Language-Centric and Human-Centric AI for Cross-Cultural Communication in Multilingual Europe (2020.lrec-1)
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Georg Rehm, Katrin Marheinecke, Stefanie Hegele, Stelios Piperidis, Kalina Bontcheva, Jan Hajič, Khalid Choukri, Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Gerhard Backfried, Christoph Prinz, José Manuel 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 Auksoriūtė, 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 Pedersen, Inguna Skadiņa, Marko Tadić, Dan Tufiș, Tamás Váradi, Kadri Vider, Andy Way, François Yvon
| Challenge: | Language Technologies (LTs) are a powerful means to break down language barriers impacting business, cross-lingual and cross-cultural communication in Europe. |
| Approach: | They present an overview of the European LT landscape and the current state of play in industry and the LT market. |
| Outcome: | The present study outlines 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. |
ELRC Action: Covering Confidentiality, Correctness and Cross-linguality (2022.lrec-1)
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Tom Vanallemeersch, Arne Defauw, Sara Szoc, Alina Kramchaninova, Joachim Van den Bogaert, Andrea Lösch
| Challenge: | ELRC aims to reduce language barriers by assessing language technology (LT) specifications . automated anonymisation and multilingual fake news processing are two of the most extensive LT assessments . |
| Approach: | They describe language technology (LT) assessments carried out by the European Commission . they zoom in on two of the most extensive assessments, namely automated anonymisation and multilingual fake news processing. |
| Outcome: | The language technology (LT) assessments carried out by the European Commission are detailed in this paper . they include a consultation round with stakeholders from public organisations, academia and industry . the ELRC action aims to create proof-of-concept environments integrating relevant tools and services . |
Language Data Sharing in European Public Services – Overcoming Obstacles and Creating Sustainable Data Sharing Infrastructures (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Data is key in training modern language technologies. |
| Approach: | They summarise findings of first pan-European study on barriers to language data sharing . they identify structural challenges, disposition towards CAT tools and lack of digital skills . overcoming language barriers is one of the main challenges european citizens face . |
| Outcome: | The paper summarises the findings of the first pan-European study on barriers to language data sharing . the findings highlight the barriers and recommend solutions to overcome them . |
European Language Resource Coordination: Collecting Language Resources for Public Sector Multilingual Information Management (L18-1)
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Andrea Lösch, Valérie Mapelli, Stelios Piperidis, Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Lilli Smal, Thierry Declerck, Eileen Schnur, Khalid Choukri, Josef van Genabith
| Challenge: | European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) initiated a number of actions to support the collection of Language Resources (LRs) within the public sector in EU member and CEF-affiliated countries. |
| Approach: | They propose to initiate actions to support the collection of Language Resources (LRs) within the public sector in EU member and CEF-affiliated countries. |
| Outcome: | The European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) consortium initiated a number of actions to support the collection of Language Resources (LRs) within the public sector in EU member and CEF-affiliated countries. |