META-NET is a Network of Excellence (consisting of 60 research centres from 34 countries) dedicated to building the technological foundations of a multilingual European information society.
The META-NET Language White Paper Series “Languages in the European Information Society” reports on the state of each European language with respect to Language Technology and explains the most urgent risks and chances. The Basque White Paper has been recently published. It has been created as a collaboration between the University of the Basque Country (Aholab and IXA Group), Elhuyar Foundation, the Basque Government’s Department of Language Policy, and the Bayonne Research Institute. Inmaculada Hernáez from Aholab has coordinated the edition of the book.
Inmaculada Hernáez, Eva Navas, Igor Odriozola, Kepa Sarasola, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Igor Leturia, Araceli Diaz de Lezana, Beñat Oihartzabal, Jasone Salaberria 2012
The Basque language in the digital age / Euskara aro digitalean
METANET White Paper Series.
Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit (editors). Springer.
METANET_White_Papers_Basque.pdf
This is a paragraph extracted from the executive summary of the book:
The White Paper Series covers other 29 European Languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian (bokmål), Norwegian (nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish.
Besides those 30 volumes, META-NET has also created a web page with the Key Results and Cross-Language Comparison. Four tables illustrate the state of technology for the languages discussed. We can see in those tables that although Basque is a lower resourced and European non-official language, its position in three of those tables is better that those of several European official languages. Of course this promising position of Basque is the result of more than twenty years work in language technology for Basque and the consequence of the coordinated collaboration between universities, research centres, industry and institutions. There is still a lot of work to be done in language technology for Basque, but its present situation is not the worst.
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