European Language Data Space Newsletter. Issue 14, June 2024.
Date: 2024-09-17
Institutions: Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
Subjects: copyright, data processing, data protection, digital single market, multilingualism

Online version | ISSN: 2811-7646

Issue 14 – June 2024

European Language Data Space
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Welcome

Dear Reader,

welcome to the June edition of the LDS Newsletter!

In this issue, we answer the question how the European Language Data Space
(LDS) addresses the safety and security standards that form the basis for a
trustworthy and stable ecosystem.

Furthermore, we present a short review on the participation of the LDS
Consortium in the 2024 edition of the joint LREC-COLING Conference.

Finally, we are happy to announce two events that are taking place these days:
the online Language Technology Landscape Conference organised by Nimdzi
Insights and CONNECT University and the LDS Country Workshop in
Luxembourg. More details can be found in the Events section below.

Further events are already being planned: visit the LDS event site to remain up
to date.

Best regards

The LDS Consortium

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How safe is the European Language Data Space?

Safety, trust and security are central aspects of all Data Spaces, as they aim at
creating value for their participants – as well as for the European economy, so-
ciety and environment – by enabling easy-to-use, secure and trustworthy data
transactions. In the European Language Data Space, safety, trust and security
are achieved by an interplay of legal and technical aspects.

In particular:

• Participants remain always in control of their own data, as they don't
have to upload it to central repositories. The data remains safe on the
users’ server.

• It is the participants who decide who to trade or exchange data with
and which conditions to apply. The participants can choose among sev-
eral standard, EU-compliant licence models.

• Participants are validated before they are onboarded in the LDS. Only
legal entities that comply with the requirements of the LDS governance
rules can participate. Once registered, they can decide themselves which
representatives take care of the the various operations in LDS – e.g. offer-
ing, licensing, payment, etc.

• LDS is a distributed infrastructure. Each participant of the LDS connects to
the LDS through the LDS data space connector software. As mentioned,
each participant decides which of their colleagues take over certain roles
operating the LDS and their own LDS connector. The corresponding
personal information and user data never leaves their own LDS con-
nector, because only language data and metadata is exchanged.

• The LDS governance framework ensures compliance with EU laws and
regulations, providing full transparency in all roles and operations, as
well as adhering to relevant EU laws – for example, Intellectual Property
Rights and Data Protection regulations.

Rely on trustworthy and secure data exchange – with the European Language

Data Space.

Events

Language Technology Landscape Conference

Nimdzi Insights is pleased to invite you to the Language Technology Landscape
Conference, organised in partnership with CONNECT University. This online
conference will provide an insight into the trends in the language technology
market, focusing on foundational, text-based and speech-based language
technologies.

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LDS Country Workshop in Luxembourg

On 19 June, the European Language Data
Space and Luxembourg Institute of Science
and Technology will bring together experts
from industry and research as well as public
administration in Luxembourg to discuss the
importance of language data for the devel-
opment of Language Technologies and AI-
based tools in Luxembourg.

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19/06/2024

Belvaux, Luxembourg

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology,
European Language Data Space

Highlights

LDS at LREC-COLING 2024

On 20-25 May 2024, the Joint International
Conference on Computational Linguistics,
Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-
COLING) – one of the world's most impor-
tant events about language data – was held
in Turin, Italy, attracting more than 2,200 in-
person and 800 online visitors and featuring
close to 300 sessions within the three days
of the main programme.

LREC-COLING 2024 was the main event of this year within the realm of lan-
guage data and language technologies, and confirmed its multilingual dimen-
sion with the record number of over 3,400 submitted and over 1,500 accepted
papers from 85 Countries.

The event was the second conference in a series of industry fairs and confer-
ences across Europe that the LDS Consortium partners attended as exhibitors
with the primary aim to engage with industry and research stakeholders, iden-
tify companies' needs in terms of language data-based AI tools and promote
the Language Data Space and its activities.

In the expo area, an exhibition with more than 25 booths was open for visitors
throughout the whole duration of the conference. Especially the coffee breaks
were used by conference visitors to explore the expo. The LDS project stand
generated a great deal of interest, and the information material was well re-
ceived by many visitors. The LDS staff answered several questions about the
status of the LDS developments, and a number of lively discussions ensued
with interested parties.

LDS User Group Meeting

The second Meeting of the LDS User Group
took place on 12 June 2024. The participants
from the European industry gained an initial
insight into the LDS infrastructure and had
the occasion to share their questions and re-
quirements.

We would like to thank all participants; we will soon publish further details
about the information and insights gained during the meeting – stay tuned!

If you are a stakeholder who is in need of language data or if you want to give
the language data of your organisation a second life, potentially monetising
it, join the LDS User Group and participate in future meetings to actively con-
tribute to and take advantage of the LDS, bringing in your own requirements
and validating the emerging LDS infrastructure. The next LDS User Group
Meeting will likely take place in autumn 2024.

Visit the LDS Website

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