ADAPT is thrilled by the overwhelming success of books from the European Language Equality (ELE) and European Language Grid (ELG) projects which have recently been positioned among the most-downloaded computer science books at Springer Nature. ELE’s A Strategic Agenda for Digital Language Equality has over 62,000 downloads with ELG’s A Language Technology Platform for Multilingual Europe now reaching 45,000 downloads. Consequently, ELE’s book now ranks in the top-10 of the most downloaded titles on the site, while ELG’s book claims a spot in the top-20 compared against approximately 300 recent titles.
ELE’s A Strategic Agenda for Digital Language Equality was co-edited by Prof. Georg Rehm (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany) and Prof. Andy Way (Dublin City University, Ireland, and co-founder of ADAPT). This book presents the results of the ELE project that Andy coordinated, with key suggestions on achieving digital language equality in Europe by 2030. The book also offers an in-depth analysis of the technology support for over 30 European languages benefiting students and researchers from language and speech technology, NLP, or language-centric AI.
ELG’s A Language Technology Platform for Multilingual Europe was edited by Georg Rehm and documents the evolution and results of the EU project European Language Grid (2019-2022), in which ADAPT through Andy’s team at DCU was a partner. The book also describes the architecture and implementation of the ELG Language Technology and NLP cloud platform and introduces readers to the ELG community consisting of hundreds of industrial and academic stakeholders all over Europe
Both books are available open access on the Springer Nature site, linked above.
