Language Technology Panel talk of Hans-Ulrich von Freyberg, at the European Data Forum 2013, 10 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland: Language Infrastructures

1. MultilingualWeb receives funding by the European Commission (project name MultilingualWeb-LT (LT-Web)) through the
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in the area of Language Technologies. Grant Agreement No. 287815.
Language Infrastructures
Hans-Ulrich von Freyberg
Cocomore AG
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Building Bridges to Foster the Adoption of the
Multilingual Web

2. CMS
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DAM
PIM
CS
DB
Applications
Data providers
Bridges between What?
Extract
… Check Retrieve
EnrichSummarize Analyse
Translate
LT

3. MultilingualWeb receives funding by the European Commission (project name MultilingualWeb-LT (LT-Web)) through the
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in the area of Language Technologies. Grant Agreement No. 287815. 3
What Kind of Bridges?
Open standards
Standardized interfaces

4. MultilingualWeb receives funding by the European Commission (project name MultilingualWeb-LT (LT-Web)) through the
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in the area of Language Technologies. Grant Agreement No. 287815.
MultilingualWeb: Starting to Build Bridges
MultilingualWeb has defined a localization metadata
standard. It also provides reference implementations that
show the standard in action.
MultilingualWeb brings key players together: content
producers, localization industry, data world and
language technology research & providers.
MultilingualWeb has reached out to the Web
community at large, with W3C as the home of
standardization efforts.
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5. MultilingualWeb receives funding by the European Commission (project name MultilingualWeb-LT (LT-Web)) through the
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in the area of Language Technologies. Grant Agreement No. 287815.
Economic Benefits of LT
Infrastructures
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