Advancing Digital Language Equality in Europe: A Market Study and Open-Source Solutions for Multilingual Websites

Andrejs Vasiljevs, Rinalds Vīksna, Neil Vacheva, Andis Lagzdiņš


Abstract
The paper presents findings from a comprehensive market study commissioned by the European Commission, aimed at analysing multilinguality of European websites and automated website translation services across various sectors. The findings show that the majority of websites offer content in one or two languages, while only less than 25% of European websites provide content in 3 or more languages. Additionally, we introduce Web-T, a collection of open-source solutions facilitating automated website translation with a help of free MT service eTranslation provided by the European Commission and possibility to integrate other MT providers. Web-T solutions include local plug-ins for Content Management Systems, universal plug-ins, and an MT API Integrator, thus contributing to the broader goal of digital language equality in Europe.
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2024.eamt-1.50
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Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 1)
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June
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2024
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Sheffield, UK
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Carolina Scarton, Charlotte Prescott, Chris Bayliss, Chris Oakley, Joanna Wright, Stuart Wrigley, Xingyi Song, Edward Gow-Smith, Rachel Bawden, Víctor M Sánchez-Cartagena, Patrick Cadwell, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Vera Cabarrão, Konstantinos Chatzitheodorou, Mary Nurminen, Diptesh Kanojia, Helena Moniz
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EAMT
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European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)
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600–609
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Andrejs Vasiljevs, Rinalds Vīksna, Neil Vacheva, and Andis Lagzdiņš. 2024. Advancing Digital Language Equality in Europe: A Market Study and Open-Source Solutions for Multilingual Websites. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 1), pages 600–609, Sheffield, UK. European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT).
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Advancing Digital Language Equality in Europe: A Market Study and Open-Source Solutions for Multilingual Websites (Vasiljevs et al., EAMT 2024)
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