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.

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

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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.

Inhalt
Preface.- 1. European Language Grid: Introduction.- 2. The European Language Grid Platform: Basic Concepts.- 3. Using the European Language Grid as a Consumer.- 4. Contributing to the European Language Grid as a Provider.- 5. Technical Cloud Infrastructure.- 6. Interoperable Metadata Bridges to the wider Language Technology Ecosystem.- 7. Language Technology Tools and Services.- 8. Datasets, Corpora and other Language Resources.- 9. Language Technology Companies, Research Organisations and Projects.- 10. European Language Technology Landscape: Communication and Collaborations.- 11. ELG National Competence Centres and Events.- 12. Innovation and Marketplace: A Vision for the European Language Grid.- 13. Sustaining the European Language Grid: Towards the ELG Legal Entity.- 14. Open Calls and Pilot Projects.- 15. Basque-speaking Smart Speaker based on Mycroft AI.- 16. CEFR Labelling and Assessment Services.-17. European Clinical Case Corpus.- 18. Extracting Terminological Concept Systems from Natural Language Text.- 19. Italian EVALITA Benchmark Linguistic Resources, NLP Services and Tools.- 20. Lingsoft Solutions as Distributable Containers.- 21. Motion Captures 3D Sign Language Resources.- 22. Multilingual Image Corpus.- 23. Multilingual Knowledge Systems as Linguistic Linked Open Data.- 24.Open Translation Models, Tools and Services.- 25. Sign Language Explanations for Terms in a Text.- 26. Streaming Language Processing in Manufacturing.- 27. Textual Paraphrase Dataset for Deep Language Modelling.- 28. Universal Semantic Annotator.- 29. Virtual Personal Assistant Prototype YouTwinDi.