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eTranslation, the free and secure translation tool supported by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), has become over the years a benchmark for quality machine translations from and into all official EU languages – and much more. But the tool developers are not resting on their laurels: Since the beginning of 2021, eTranslation users could benefit from various new features and updates.

Information access at the time of COVID-19 pandemics is hampered by the amount and the reliability of information, as well as the many languages in which the information is provided. Language technologies can help. The COVID-19 MLIA initiative, endorsed by the European Commission's DG CNECT and coordinated by the University of Padua and ELRA/ELDA, has been launched in June 2020 to improve Multilingual Information Access in this specific context.

European Language Equality (ELE) Towards digital language equality in Europe

In November 2020, the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT20) took place.

The continuous advances in Language Technology (LT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) create new opportunities to support the free flow of information across languages and borders and to build the economic and cultural cornerstone for the European Digital Single Market.