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European Language Grid

A Language Technology Platform for Multilingual Europe

  • Documents the evolution and results of the EU project European Language Grid (2019-2022)

  • Describes the architecture and implementation of the ELG Language Technology and NLP cloud platform

  • Introduces readers to the ELG community consisting of hundreds of industrial and academic stakeholders all over Europe

  • This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Part of the book series: Cognitive Technologies (COGTECH)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
  2. European Language Grid: Introduction

    • Georg Rehm
    Pages 1-10Open Access
  3. ELG Cloud Platform

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. The European Language Grid Platform:Basic Concepts

      • Stelios Piperidis, Penny Labropoulou, Dimitris Galanis, Miltos Deligiannis, Georg Rehm
      Pages 13-36Open Access
    3. Using the European Language Grid as a Consumer

      • Ian Roberts, Penny Labropoulou, Dimitris Galanis, Rémi Calizzano, Athanasia Kolovou, Dimitris Gkoumas et al.
      Pages 37-66Open Access
    4. Contributing to the European Language Grid as a Provider

      • Dimitris Galanis, Penny Labropoulou, Ian Roberts, Miltos Deligiannis, Leon Voukoutis, Katerina Gkirtzou et al.
      Pages 67-93Open Access
    5. Cloud Infrastructure of the European Language Grid

      • Florian Kintzel, Rémi Calizzano, Georg Rehm
      Pages 95-106Open Access
    6. Interoperable Metadata Bridges to the wider Language Technology Ecosystem

      • Penny Labropoulou, Stelios Piperidis, Miltos Deligiannis, Leon Voukoutis, Maria Giagkou, Ondřej Košarko et al.
      Pages 107-127Open Access
  4. ELG Inventory of Technologies and Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
    2. Language Technology Tools and Services

      • Ian Roberts, Andres Garcia Silva, Cristian Berrìo Aroca, Jose Manuel Gómez-Pérez, Miroslav Jánoší, Dimitris Galanis et al.
      Pages 131-149Open Access
    3. Datasets, Corpora and other Language Resources

      • Victoria Arranz, Khalid Choukri, Valérie Mapelli, Mickaël Rigault, Penny Labropoulou, Miltos Deligiannis et al.
      Pages 151-169Open Access
    4. Language Technology Companies, Research Organisations and Projects

      • Georg Rehm, Katrin Marheinecke, Rémi Calizzano, Penny Labropoulou
      Pages 171-185Open Access
  5. ELG Community and Initiative

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
    2. European Language Technology Landscape: Communication and Collaborations

      • Georg Rehm, Katrin Marheinecke, Jens-Peter Kückens
      Pages 189-204Open Access
    3. ELG National Competence Centres and Events

      • Katrin Marheinecke, Annika Grützner-Zahn, Georg Rehm
      Pages 205-217Open Access
    4. Innovation and Marketplace: A Vision for the European Language Grid

      • Katja Prinz, Gerhard Backfried
      Pages 219-232Open Access
    5. Sustaining the European Language Grid: Towards the ELG Legal Entity

      • Georg Rehm, Katrin Marheinecke, Stefanie Hegele, Stelios Piperidis, Kalina Bontcheva, Jan Hajič et al.
      Pages 233-254Open Access
  6. ELG Open Calls and Pilot Projects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
    2. Open Calls and Pilot Projects

      • Lukáš Kačena, Jana Hamrlová, Jan Hajič
      Pages 257-270Open Access
    3. Basque-speaking Smart Speaker based on Mycroft AI

      • Igor Leturia, Ander Corral, Xabier Sarasola, Beñat Jimenez, Silvia Portela, Arkaitz Anza et al.
      Pages 271-276Open Access

About this book

This open access book provides an in-depth description of the EU project European Language Grid (ELG). Its motivation lies in the fact that Europe is a multilingual society with 24 official European Union Member State languages and dozens of additional languages including regional and minority languages. The only meaningful way to enable multilingualism and to benefit from this rich linguistic heritage is through Language Technologies (LT) including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Speech Technologies and language-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. 

The European Language Grid provides a single umbrella platform for the European LT community, including research and industry, effectively functioning as a virtual home, marketplace, showroom, and deployment centre for all services, tools, resources, products and organisations active in the field. Today the ELG cloud platform already offers access to more than 13,000 language processing tools and language resources. It enables all stakeholders to deposit, upload and deploy their technologies and datasets. The platform also supports the long-term objective of establishing digital language equality in Europe by 2030 – to create a situation in which all European languages enjoy equal technological support. 


This is the very first book dedicated to Language Technology and NLP platforms. Cloud technology has only recently matured enough to make the development of a platform like ELG feasible on a larger scale. The book comprehensively describes the results of the ELG project. Following an introduction, the content is divided into four main parts: (I) ELG Cloud Platform; (II) ELG Inventory of Technologies and Resources; (III) ELG Community and Initiative; and (IV) ELG Open Calls and Pilot Projects.

Keywords

  • Language technology platform
  • Language processing platform
  • LT platform
  • NLP platform
  • Language technology directory
  • Language processing directory
  • LT directory
  • NLP directory
  • Language technology repository
  • Language processing repository
  • LT repository
  • NLP repository
  • Language data repository
  • Open Access

Reviews

“I learned a lot about the state of the art from reading this book, and some of the pilot projects gave me ideas for student projects.” (J. H. Davenport, Computing Reviews, June 14, 2023)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI), Berlin, Germany

    Georg Rehm

About the editor

Prof. Georg Rehm works as a Principal Researcher in the Speech and Language Technology Department of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Berlin. He is the Coordinator of the EU project European Language Grid (ELG, 2019-2022) and the Co-coordinator of the European Language Equality EU projects (ELE, 2021-2022 and ELE2, 2022-2023). He has been involved as Coordinator or Principal Investigator in a number of large-scale research projects, including QURATOR, OpenGPT-X and NFDI for Data Science and AI. Rehm holds an MA in Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics and Computer Science from the University of Osnabrück. After completing his PhD in Computational Linguistics at the University of Gießen, he worked at the University of Tübingen and at an award-winning internet start-up in Berlin. Rehm joined DFKI in 2010 and has authored, co-authored or edited more than 200 research publications and organised more than 30 scientific events. In 2018, he was awarded the honorary appointment as a DFKI Research Fellow for his outstanding scientific achievements and special accomplishments in technology transfer. In 2021, he was appointed honorary professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for his outstanding achievements in research and education.

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