CEFAT 4 C ities, a Natural Language Layer for the ISA 2 Core Public Service Vocabulary (2020)

Abstract: The CEFAT4Cities project (2020-2022) will create a “Smart Cities natural language context” (a software layer that facilitates the conversion of natural-language administrative procedures, into machine-readable data sets) on top of the existing ISA2 interoperability layer for public services. Integration with the FIWARE/ORION “Smart City” Context Broker, will make existing, paper-based, public services discoverable through “Smart City” frameworks, thus allowing for the development of more sophisticated and more user-friendly public services applications. An automated translation component will be included, to provide a solution that can be used by all EU Member States. As a result, the project will allow EU citizens and businesses to interact with public services on the city, national, regional and EU level, in their own language.

## proposed solution to speed up the development and adoption of multilingual, cross-border egovernment services, the cefat4cities project, which runs from april 2020 to march 2022, will build: to promote the use of the cefat4cities infrastructure within the smart cities community, a dissemination and communication plan, along with a roadmap for future funding, will be developed. ## use cases the effectiveness of the solution will be demonstrated by three use cases: the following tangible results will be produced: ## consortium cefat4cities will be implemented by a consortium of five partners, representing three different countries (austria, belgium and germany), demonstrating a diversified expertise, with access to various stakeholder communities. crosslang (belgium) and coreon (germany) have a strong track record in nlp, machine translation, and knowledge management. the fiware foundation (germany) has plenty of experience in productizing research code and working with the open source community. vienna business agency (austria) and brussels chamber of commerce (belgium) have both immediate access to other regions and cities. the targeted users, represented by the cities of maribor (slovenia) and trento (italy), will involve their networks of problem owners to test the project results and to promote the outcomes.