Proposal to use IT to bridge Europe’s language barriers

Meta-Net, a European network of 60 research centres in 34 countries including Malta, has developed a Strategic Research Agenda document outlining how investment in language technologies can generate considerable economic benefits. It was presented to...

Meta-Net, a European network of 60 research centres in 34 countries including Malta, has developed a Strategic Research Agenda document outlining how investment in language technologies can generate considerable economic benefits.

It was presented to representatives of the European Commission, research and industry at a technology symposium last Friday in Berlin.

Meta-Net is also advocating the design and development of a European Service Platform for Language Technologies to provide seamless language technologies to users and customers. Through a coordinated, large-scale effort leading up to 2020, technologies can be developed to future-proof European languages, providing new applications and services to citizens and creating a host of new opportunities for the European IT and language industries.

The University is also involved in Metanet4U, an EU-funded project contributing to Meta-Net by developing language resources and tools for the Maltese, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian and English languages.

For details e-mail Michael Rosner at the Intelligent Computer System Department at mike.rosner@um.edu.mt.

www.meta-net.eu

Compiled by AIESEC Malta.

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