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The European Language Resource Coordination together with the Press and Information Office and the Department of French and European Studies of the University of Cyprus are bringing together experts from the Cyprus Research, Industry and Public Administration to discuss how technologies for the Greek language can reshape our digital interactions. The event is taking place on 1^st of December 2021 online.

In 2014, the European Commission launched the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) to support trans-European networks and infrastructures with the aim to establish a Digital Single Market in the 28 EU member states, Iceland and Norway. Among CEF services, Automated Translation (CEF AT) helps overcome one of the main challenges that European and national public administrations and businesses are facing today: the exchange of information across language barriers.

But Automated Translation is not the only technology that is already transforming the way we interact with our administration, the way we shop, work and travel. Programs that automatically aid sophisticated writing, digital assistants that transform our voices to text messages on mobile phones, bots that answer our calls to the bank or to our social security organisation, and much more, are already empowering our everyday lives, our businesses and our administrations. But do the existing solutions allow us to use our own language in all digital interactions? Are they really ready for use yet? And is our language adequately supported and ready to keep pace with the technological advancements of the Artificial Intelligence era?

The third Cyprus European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) workshop will address these questions and it will seek to engage participants in a fruitful discussion on the status and prospects of Language Technology for Greek as well as the challenge of the digitization of the Greek Cypriot dialect. Researchers, developers, integrators and users of Language Technology, both from the private and public sector will share experiences, requirements and ways for transforming digital interaction in our multilingual Europe with Language Technologies. Last but not least, we will discuss how language data, i.e. texts and speech, can fuel development in Artificial Intelligence.

The workshop is addressed to digital services, to public administration executives, officers and partners, researchers and SMEs. Participation is free of charge, but registration is required here.

For further information:

ELRC: www.lr-coordination.eu

Programme/Registration: https://lr-coordination.eu/el/form/registration-for-3rd-cyprus    

Contact persons: Natassa Avraamides, email: navraamides@pio.moi.gov.cy  

Dora Loizidou, email: loizidou.dora@ucy.ac.cy  

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