Introducing the Digital Language Equality Metric: Technological Factors

Federico Gaspari, Owen Gallagher, Georg Rehm, Maria Giagkou, Stelios Piperidis, Jane Dunne, Andy Way


Abstract
This paper introduces the concept of Digital Language Equality (DLE) developed by the EU-funded European Language Equality (ELE) project, and describes the associated DLE Metric with a focus on its technological factors (TFs), which are complemented by situational contextual factors. This work aims at objectively describing the level of technological support of all European languages and lays the foundation to implement a large-scale EU-wide programme to ensure that these languages can continue to exist and prosper in the digital age, to serve the present and future needs of their speakers. The paper situates this ongoing work with a strong European focus in the broader context of related efforts, and explains how the DLE Metric can help track the progress towards DLE for all languages of Europe, focusing in particular on the role played by the TFs. These are derived from the European Language Grid (ELG) Catalogue, that provides the empirical basis to measure the level of digital readiness of all European languages. The DLE Metric scores can be consulted through an online interactive dashboard to show the level of technological support of each European language and track the overall progress toward DLE.
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2022.tdle-1.1
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Proceedings of the Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Itziar Aldabe, Begoña Altuna, Aritz Farwell, German Rigau
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TDLE
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European Language Resources Association
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1–12
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Federico Gaspari, Owen Gallagher, Georg Rehm, Maria Giagkou, Stelios Piperidis, Jane Dunne, and Andy Way. 2022. Introducing the Digital Language Equality Metric: Technological Factors. In Proceedings of the Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1–12, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Introducing the Digital Language Equality Metric: Technological Factors (Gaspari et al., TDLE 2022)
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