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Co-funded by the 7th Framework Programme and the ICT Policy Support Programme of the European Commission through the contracts T4ME, CESAR, METANET4U, META-NORD (grant agreements no. 249119, 271022, 270893, 270899).
META-NET and META-SHARE: Language Technology for Europe
Georg Rehm
Network Manager META-NET DFKI, Germany [email protected]
CHAT 2012 Workshop – Madrid, Spain
June 22, 2012
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Outline
q Introduction
q META-SHARE
q Language White Paper Series
q Strategic Research Agenda
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Multilingual Europe
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q Challenge: Providing each language community with the most advanced technologies for communication and information so that maintaining their mother tongue does not turn into a disadvantage.
q While research has made considerable progress in recent years, the pace of progress is not fast enough to meet the challenge within the next 10-20 years.
q All stakeholders – researchers, LT user and provider industries, language communities, funding programmes, policy makers – should team up for a major dedicated push.
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Objectives
META-NET is a network of excellence dedicated to fostering the tech-nological foundations of the European multilingual information society.
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Four Funded Projects
q Initial project: T4ME (FP7; 13 partners, 10 countries)
q Three additional consortia (ICT-PSP) since Feb. 2011: CESAR, METANET4U, META-NORD
q All EU member states and several non-member states covered.
q META-NET in June 2012: 60 members in 34 countries.
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META-SHARE META-SHARE
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META-SHARE at a Glance
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q Open exchange infrastructure for language resources and tools.
q Language resources and tools are documented, uploaded, stored in repositories, catalogued, can be downloaded, shared, discussed.
q Improve their visibility, documentation, identification, availability, preservation, interoperability.
q Long-term goal: boost research, technology and innovation through wide availability, pooling, openness and sharing of resources.
q Repositories store and maintain inventories of resources and tools.
q Metadata inventories are exported and harvested in the network.
q Currently 13 repositories up and running; ~1.300 LRs available.
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Metadata Descriptions
q Unit of description: LRs/LTs and related objects q Metadata descriptions for
§ Sets of text/audio/video etc. files (corpora) § Sets of lexical entries (lexical/conceptual resources) § Tools or services etc.
q Components group together elements and relations § General components common to all LR types § LR type-specific components
q Profiles for each LR type are built upon components
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Ontology excerpt
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Current Contents
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Distribu/on per Language English Spanish French German Italian Chinese Dutch Portuguese Greek Swedish Catalan Arabic Japanese Romanian Danish Polish Other
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q Several organizations outside META-NET want to set up their own META-SHARE repositories (e.g., JRC Optima Activity).
q Incoming resources from CESAR, METANET4U and META-NORD and also from additional initiatives (collaboration agreements with >45 EU-funded projects).
q ELRA will adopt META-SHARE as the central model for LR sharing and will provide services in its operation.
q META-SHARE Version 3.0 to be released in September 2012.
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Recent Developments
EXCITEMENT
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Language White Paper Series META-VISION
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Language White Papers
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q Key communication instruments to address decision makers and journalists.
q Cover all EU languages (30 volumes). q Report on the state of a language
(general, social, strategic and technological aspects) and the level of support through language technology.
q Inform target group about societal and technological problems and challenges as well as economic opportunities.
q Published by Springer. q PDF versions available for free.
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30 Languages Covered
q Basque q Bulgarian* q Catalan q Czech* q Danish* q Dutch* q English* q Estonian* q Finnish* q French*
q Galician q German* q Greek* q Hungarian* q Icelandic q Irish* q Italian* q Latvian* q Lithuanian* q Maltese*
q Norwegian q Polish* q Portuguese* q Romanian* q Serbian q Slovak* q Slovene* q Spanish* q Swedish* q Croatian
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* = Official EU language
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A few Numbers …
q >160 national experts contributed as authors or co-authors (ca. 5 per language on average)
q >50 additional experts have contributed data and information
q >8,000 copies will be printed and distributed by META-NET
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Cross-Lingual Ranking
q Journalists and politicians need simple and clear messages. q For four application areas, each language is assigned to one of five
clusters, ranging from excellent LT support to weak/no support:
1. Machine Translation 2. Speech Processing
3. Text Analysis
4. Resources q Finalised at a meeting with
representatives of all 30 lang- uages (Oct. 21/22, 2011).
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MT (top) & Speech Processing (bottom)
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English
good
French, Spanish
moderate fragmentary
Catalan, Dutch, German,
Hungarian, Italian, Polish,
Romanian
weak or no support
Basque, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Galician,
Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish
excellent
Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian,
Portuguese, Spanish
moderate fragmentary
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish,
Estonian, Galician, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene,
Swedish
weak or no support
Croatian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Romanian
excellent
English
good
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Text Analysis (top) & Resources (bottom)
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English
good
Dutch, French, German,
Italian, Spanish
moderate fragmentary
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Finnish,
Galician, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish
weak or no support
Croatian, Estonian, Icelandic, Irish,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Serbian
excellent
English
good
Czech, Dutch, French, German,
Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish,
Swedish
moderate fragmentary
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Estonian,
Finnish, Galician, Greek, Norwegian, Portuguese,
Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene
Icelandic, Irish, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Maltese
weak/no support excellent
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Europe’s Languages and LT
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Dutch French German Italian
Spanish
Catalan Czech
Finnish Hungarian
Polish Portuguese
Swedish
Basque Bulgarian
Danish Galician
Greek Norwegian Romanian
Slovak Slovene
Croatian Estonian Icelandic
Irish Latvian
Lithuanian Maltese Serbian
English
good support through Language Technology
weak or no support
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q When it comes to Language Technology support, there are massive differences between Europe’s languages and technology areas.
q Language Technology support for English is ahead of any other language – but far from being perfect.
q For 16 of 30 languages, Language Technology support is only fragmentary, very weak or non-existent!
q We now have a list of gaps and needs for all 30 languages which need to be addressed in the years to come.
Key Results
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q On June 20 we launched a new version of the Language White Paper website: http://www.meta-net.eu/whitepapers.
q Ca. 20 of the 30 white papers online (PDF).
q First batch of printed copies (published by Springer) will be available soon.
q New volumes upcoming (such as, “Euro- pean Sign Languages in the Digital Age”).
q Dissemination of printed volumes to politicians and journalists to start in July.
Recent Developments
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Strategic Research Agenda META-VISION
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Shared Vision and SRA
q Mobilize researchers, users and providers of LT for cooperation and collaboration to initiate and support a large-scale joint action to § Building a community around Language Technology in Europe (META), § Creating a shared vision,
§ Preparing a Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020, to be presented to national/international politicians, funding agencies, decision makers.
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Appropriate Programme
Vision & Agenda
Appropriate Actors
Commercial-
isation & Research
Appropriate Support
Funding
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From Visions to the SRA
q Three Vision Groups brought together researchers, developers, integrators and (corporate or professional) users of LT-based products, services and applications (ca. 25 members each).
q Collected domain-specific visions and prepared individual reports.
q Vision Group Translation and Localisation
q Vision Group Media and Information Services
q Vision Group Interactive Systems
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§ July 23, 2010 Berlin, Germany § September 28, 2010 Brussels, Belgium § April 7/8, 2011 Prague, Czech Republic
§ September 10, 2010 Paris, France § October 15, 2010 Barcelona, Spain § April 1, 2011 Vienna, Austria
§ September 10, 2010 Paris, France § October 5, 2010 Prague, Czech Republic § March 28, 2011 Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Steps taken towards the SRA
q Many suggestions by: Vision Group members; META-NET; META. q Additional input in meetings, workshops, discussions etc. q Language White Papers: research gaps; funding situation etc. q We screened the Strategic Research Agendas of other initiatives. q We discussed procedures, input, structure and content of the SRA in
four meetings of the META Technology Council. § Brussels, Belgium, November 16, 2010 § Venice, Italy, May 25, 2011
§ Berlin, Germany, September 30, 2011
§ Brussels, Belgium, June 19, 2012
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From Visions to the SRA
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Vision Paper
Vision Group Translation and
Localisation Report
Vision Group Interactive
Systems Report
Vision Group Media and
Information Services Report
Priority Themes Paper
Expert meeting minutes
Expert meeting minutes
Expert meeting minutes
Strategic Research Agenda
2010 2011 2012
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Priority Research Themes
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LT 2020 Vision and Priority Themes for Language Technology Research in Europe until the Year 2020 Towards the META-NET Strategic Research Agenda
The development of this paper has been funded by the Seventh Framework Programme and the ICT Policy Support Programme of the Euro-pean Commission under contracts T4ME (Grant Agreement 249119), CESAR (Grant Agreement 271022), METANET4U (Grant Agreement 270893) and META-NORD (Grant Agreement 270899).
Do you have comments, ideas or suggestions
with regard to the content of this document?
Please send them to [email protected] or
discuss them online: http://www.meta-net.eu/sra.
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META
q META-NET is a network of excellence.
q META is an open and growing strategic technology alliance: Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance.
§ 630+ members, including W3C, Google, Microsoft, GALA, research centres, LT companies, many EC funded projects etc.
§ Main goal: to support our Strategic Research Agenda.
§ Join us! http://www.meta-net.eu/join
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Next Steps
q Solid first version of SRA to be available online on July 2 – we need as much feedback as possible! Check our website!
q Disseminate the Language White Papers widely. q Making META-SHARE sustainable. q Disseminate the SRA widely – meet with national research planners,
funders, policy makers and inform them about the strategy. q Roll out META-SHARE for the whole LT community in Sep. 2012. q Upcoming opportunities can provide sufficient resources to make
our visions for Europe’s citizens and economy, as described in the SRA, a reality (Horizon 2020 and Connecting Europe Facility, CEF).
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Q/A
Thank you very much! [email protected] http://www.meta-net.eu http://www.facebook.com/META.Alliance
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