Linguistic diversity is an essential element of our mulitcultural European society. In the age of globalisation and the emerging information society this diversity is not yet sustainable. Languages that are not supported by advanced information technology will be in danger. The vision of an inclusive barrier-free European information society requires technologies for overcoming language boundaries at affordable costs.
The creation of the technology base for the multilingual European information society needs a major joint effort of research, industrial technology providers, commercial and public user organisations, policy makers and research funding agencies.
META Net is a Network of Excellence founded by thirteen European research and technology organizations and partially funded by the European Commission under the name T4ME Net (http://t4me.dfki.de). Its mission is to forge a strategic alliance for creating the technologies and applications needed for making the linguistic diversity of our multicultural society sustainable.
Partner
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (coordinator), Barcelona Media – Centre d’Innovació Media, Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche – Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli", Institute for Language and Speech Processing, R.C. "Athena", Charles University in Prague, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur, Universiteit Utrecht, Aalto University, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Dublin City University, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Jo?ef Stefan Institute, Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency
