AI’s new frontiers in language technologies: FBK among key players
How to preserve Europe’s linguistic diversity and cultural plenty? Thanks to technological excellence in the field. With a launch event on February 18 and 19 in Villers-Cotterêts, ALT-EDIC4EU was launched: the first of two major European projects involving the Alliance for Language Technologies European Digital Infrastructure Consortium and thus Fondazione Bruno Kessler as a partner.
Today, AI technologies for language are dominated by solutions developed by large multinational corporations. The ALT-EDIC was created with the idea of enabling European states to put up a united front and carve out a space where they can develop AI technologies that respect European multilingualism and cultural diversity and that are respectful of the ethical and human values that set us apart.” Alessio Brutti, FBK’s scientific contact for ALT-EDIC and Head of the SpeechTek Lab Unit of FBK’s Center for Augmented Intelligence, explains. “For Fondazione Bruno Kessler,” Brutti adds, ”and in particular for the groups involved in speech and language technologies, being part of this initiative is obviously a great opportunity both in terms of positioning and visibility, and to be able to collaborate with laboratories of excellence and companies to do high-level research towards the development of ethical AI with human beings at the center.”
ALT-EDIC is a Consortium, established at the European level in February 2024 with the mission to develop a common European infrastructure in the field of language technologies, focusing in particular on Large Language Models. It aims to improve European competitiveness, increase the availability of European language data, and support Europe’s linguistic diversity and cultural richness.
