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This open access book provides an in-depth description of the EU project European Language Grid (ELG). Its motivation lies in the fact that Europe is a multilingual society with 24 official European Union Member State languages and dozens of additional languages including regional and minority languages. The only meaningful way to enable multilingualism and to benefit from this rich linguistic heritage is through Language Technologies (LT) including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Speech Technologies and language-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. The European Language Grid provides a single umbrella platform for the European LT community, including research and industry, effectively functioning as a virtual home, marketplace, showroom, and deployment centre for all services, tools, resources, products and organisations active in the field. Today the ELG cloud platform already offers access to more than 13,000 language processing tools and language resources. It enables all stakeholders to deposit, upload and deploy their technologies and datasets. The platform also supports the long-term objective of establishing digital language equality in Europe by 2030 – to create a situation in which all European languages enjoy equal technological support. This is the very first book dedicated to Language Technology and NLP platforms. Cloud technology has only recently matured enough to make the development of a platform like ELG feasible on a larger scale. The book comprehensively describes the results of the ELG project. Following an introduction, the content is divided into four main parts: (I) ELG Cloud Platform; (II) ELG Inventory of Technologies and Resources; (III) ELG Community and Initiative; and (IV) ELG Open Calls and Pilot Projects.

Natural language processing (Computer science). --- Computational linguistics. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Expert systems (Computer science). --- Application software. --- Business—Data processing. --- Natural Language Processing (NLP). --- Computational Linguistics. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Knowledge Based Systems. --- Computer and Information Systems Applications. --- Business Informatics. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Knowledge-based systems (Computer science) --- Systems, Expert (Computer science) --- Artificial intelligence --- Computer systems --- Soft computing --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Automatic language processing --- Language and languages --- Language data processing --- Linguistics --- Natural language processing (Linguistics) --- Applied linguistics --- Cross-language information retrieval --- Mathematical linguistics --- Multilingual computing --- NLP (Computer science) --- Human-computer interaction --- Semantic computing --- Data processing --- Language technology platform --- Language processing platform --- LT platform --- NLP platform --- Language technology directory --- Language processing directory --- LT directory --- NLP directory --- Language technology repository --- Language processing repository --- LT repository --- NLP repository --- Language data repository