The German Language in the Digital Age

1. Front Matter

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2. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG

   • Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit

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3. UNSERE SPRACHEN IN GEFAHR: EINE HERAUSFORDERUNG FÜR DIE SPRACHTECHNOLOGIE

   • Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit

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4. DEUTSCH IN DER EUROPÄISCHEN INFORMATIONSGESELLSCHAFT

   • Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit

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5. SPRACHTECHNOLOGIE FÜR DAS DEUTSCHE

   • Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit

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6. ÜBER META-NET

   • Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit

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7. Executive Summary

   • Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit

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8. Languages at Risk: a Challenge for Language Technology

   • Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit

   Pages 42-46

9. The German Language in the European Information Society

   • Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit

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10. Language Technology Support for Hungarian

    • Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit

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11. About Meta-Net

    • Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit

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12. Back Matter

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This white paper is part of a series that promotes knowledge about language technology and its potential. It addresses educators, journalists, politicians, language communities and others. The availability and use of language technology in Europe varies between languages. Consequently, the actions that are required to further support research and development of language technologies also differ for each language. The required actions depend on many factors, such as the complexity of a given language and the size of its community. META-NET, a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission, has conducted an analysis of current language resources and technologies. This analysis focused on the 23 official European languages as well as other important national and regional languages in Europe. The results of this analysis suggest that there are many significant research gaps for each language. A more detailed expert analysis and assessment of the current situation will help maximise the impact of additional research and minimize any risks. META-NET consists of 54 research centres from 33 countries that are working with stakeholders from commercial businesses, government agencies, industry, research organisations, software companies, technology providers and European universities. Together, they are creating a common technology vision while developing a strategic research agenda that shows how language technology applications can address any research gaps by 2020.

• Crosslingual and Multilingual ICT
• Language Technology
• META-NET
• Machine Translation
• Multilingual Europe

• DFKI, Berlin, Germany

  Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit

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