Fostering digital representation of EU regional and minority languages: the Digital Language Diversity Project

Claudia Soria, Irene Russo, Valeria Quochi, Davyth Hicks, Antton Gurrutxaga, Anneli Sarhimaa, Matti Tuomisto


Abstract
Poor digital representation of minority languages further prevents their usability on digital media and devices. The Digital Language Diversity Project, a three-year project funded under the Erasmus+ programme, aims at addressing the problem of low digital representation of EU regional and minority languages by giving their speakers the intellectual an practical skills to create, share, and reuse online digital content. Availability of digital content and technical support to use it are essential prerequisites for the development of language-based digital applications, which in turn can boost digital usage of these languages. In this paper we introduce the project, its aims, objectives and current activities for sustaining digital usability of minority languages through adult education.
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L16-1518
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3256–3260
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Claudia Soria, Irene Russo, Valeria Quochi, Davyth Hicks, Antton Gurrutxaga, Anneli Sarhimaa, and Matti Tuomisto. 2016. Fostering digital representation of EU regional and minority languages: the Digital Language Diversity Project. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 3256–3260, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Fostering digital representation of EU regional and minority languages: the Digital Language Diversity Project (Soria et al., LREC 2016)
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