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Answering the question on the current state of a whole R&D field is both difficult and complex. For language technology, even though partial answers exist in terms of business figures, scientific challenges and results from educational studies, nobody has collected these indicators and provided comparable reports for a substantial number of European languages yet. In order to arrive at a comprehensive answer, META-NET prepared the White Paper Series “Europe’s Languages in the Digital Age” that describes the current state of language technology support for 30 European languages. This immense undertaking has been in preparation since mid 2010 and was published in the summer of 2012. More than 200 experts from academia and industry participated to the 30 volumes as co-authors and contributors. White Papers were written for the following 30 European languages (including all 23 official EU languages): Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish.
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Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (2013). Language Technology 2012: Current State and Opportunities. In: Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (eds) META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020. White Paper Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36349-8_4
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