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The European Commission is launching a new WordPress plugin for automated website translation. The plugin will be introduced in a 30-minute information session

In future-oriented AI, large language models (LLMs) are on the pulse of time. Combining the latest deep learning technology with heavy computing infrastructure now enables academic or commercial organisations to build language models from large amounts of text or speech data. Such models incorporate information that is useful for understanding a language, such as its vocabulary and how it expresses meaning.

Let's shape the future of Europe together! What should be on top of the EU's priority list when it comes to language technology and AI? Please share your thoughts with us by participating in the ELRC White Paper Survey 2022, which will be open until 27 May 2022.

In line with the European Data Strategy and the launch of the DIGITAL Programme, the European Commission (CNECT.G3’s Multilingualism Sector) organised a series of seven workshops in May. They targeted several business sectors, such as News, Broadcasting, Advertising, Publishing, Language Technology, Telecommunication Industries as well as Libraries, Archives and Public Administrations. The goal was not only to present the Language Data Space concept, but also to gather insights from the different stakeholders’ groups.

In early March, ELRC started the “Crisis response without language borders” initiative to support cross-border communication for helpers and refugees in the Ukraine crisis and to prevent both misunderstandings and spreading of misinformation across Europe. The plea for support, which was circulated by email, via social media and published on various websites, called for data donations of bilingual and multilingual corpora for Ukrainian to and from all EU official languages. Such data is essential to train easily accessible, free and fast automatic translation systems that can facilitate information exchange between Ukrainian and the EU official languages.