scholarly journals Picking the crucial language technologies and how Wikipedia can help: the Welsh experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Morlais
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Work Package ◽  
Speech Translation ◽  
Language Technology ◽  
Welsh Language ◽  
Search Data ◽  
Text Content ◽  
Synthetic Voices ◽  
Language Technologies

When you're making plans to get people using your language as much and as often as possible, there's a list of things related to Wikipedia which can really help. I'll share our experience with the Welsh language. Supporting the Welsh-language Wikipedia community forms Work Package 15 of 27 in the Welsh Government's Welsh Language Technology Action Plan https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2018-12/welsh-language-technology-and-digital-media-action-plan.pdf. We like supporting Welsh language Wikipedia editing workshops, video workshops and other channels that encourage people to create and publish Welsh-language video, audio, graphic and text content because we're on a mission to try to help double daily use of Welsh by 2050. I'll share developments we're funding in speech, translation and conversational AI. The partners we're giving grants to publish what they develop under open licence. So we can share what we've funded with many companies. We think Microsoft might have used some to make their new synthetic voices in Welsh. We're excited by the potential Wikidata offers. We'll look at its potential in populating Welsh maps this year. We've already used Wikipedia search data as a way of prioritising the training of a Welsh virtual assistant. Welsh may not be spending as much as Icelandic and Estonian do on language technologies, but we'd like to share what we're learning as a smaller language about the important areas to focus on and how Wikipedia can help.

scholarly journals Development and Research in Lithuanian Language Technologies (2016–2020)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrius Utka ◽  
Jurgita Vaičenonienė ◽  
Monika Briedienė ◽  
Tomas Krilavičius
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Research Production ◽  
Language Technology ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Language Technologies

The paper presents an overview of the development and research in Lithuanian language technologies for the period 2016–2020. The most significant national and international LT related initiatives, projects, research infrastructures, language resources and tools are discussed. The paper also surveys research production in the field of language technology for the Lithuanian language. The provided analysis of scientific papers shows that machine translation and speech technologies were the most trending research topics in 2016–2019.

scholarly journals O suicídio: uma reflexão sobre medidas preventivas

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Mazza da Silva ◽  
Victor Colucci Neto
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
World Health ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Health Action ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health Action Plan

No presente artigo serão trazidos à baila algumas questões relacionadas ao suicídio, sobretudo com relação aos métodos preventivos. Nesse contexto, será abordado o disposto pela OMS, que reconheceu o suicídio como sendo uma prioridade de saúde pública. Em decorrência, publicou em 2014 o primeiro Relatório Mundial de Suicídio da OMS “Prevenção do suicídio: um imperativo global”, cujo objetivo seria aumentar a conscientização sobre a importância da saúde pública para as tentativas de suicídio e suicídio, fazendo da prevenção ao suicídio uma alta prioridade na agenda global em termos de saúde pública. No mais, além do disposto pela OMS, será discorrido a respeito da prevenção ao suicídio sob a perspectiva da importância da família, salientando-se para o uso e influência das tecnologias, a busca pelo sentido da vida e a valorização da autoestima em crianças e adolescentes. Para tanto, será realizada pesquisa bibliográfica em livros, revistas, textos e artigos científicos.Descritores: Suicídio; Prevenção Controle; Saúde Pública.RferênciasGuia Intersetorial de Prevenção do Comportamento Suicida em Crianças E Adolescentes; 2019.Kovacs MJ. Morte e desenvolvimento humano. São Paulo: Casa do Psicólogo; 1992.Rocha GMA. Condutas autolesivas: uma leitura pela Teoria do Apego. Rev Bras Psicologia. 2015;2(01):62-70.OMS. Organização Mundial de Saúde. Prevenção do suicídio um recurso para conselheiros. Departamento de Saúde Mental e de Abuso de Substâncias. Gestão de Perturbações Mentais e de Doenças do Sistema Nervoso. Genebra; 2006.p.9-11.Durkheim E. O Suicídio. estudo de Sociologia. São Paulo: Martins Fontes; 2000.Franco M. Após experiências familiares, psicóloga vira 'suicidologista' para prevenir casos. Folha de S. Paulo, São Paulo, 29 out. 2018. Disponível em: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/equilibrioesaude/2018/10/apos-experiencias-familiares-psicologa-vira-suicidologista-para-prevenir-casos.shtml.  Acesso em: 02 fev. 2020.WHO. World Health Organization. Suicide. Geneva; 2019. Disponível em: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/suicide. Acesso em: 13 jan. 2020.WHO. World Health Organization. Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2020. Geneva; 2013. Disponível em: https://www.who.int/mental_health/action_plan_2013/en/. Acesso em: 13 jan. 2020.Botega NJ. Comportamento suicida: epidemiologia. Psicologia USP. 2014;25(3):231-36.Brasil. Ministério da Mulher, da Família e dos Direitos Humanos. O suicídio e a automutilação tratados sob a perspectiva da família e do sentido da vida. 2019. p. 1-42.Moraes, FT. Depressão em adolescentes cresce impulsionada por uso de redes sociais. Folha de S. Paulo, São Paulo, 5 nov. 2018. Disponível em: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/equilibrioesaude/2018/11/depressao-em- adolescentes-cresce-impulsionada-por-uso-de-redes-sociais.shtml. Acesso em: 01 fev. 2020.University of Michigan Health System. Pediatricians update digital media recommendations for kids. ScienceDaily. 2016. Disponível em: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161021093834.htm. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2020.

scholarly journals Radical Digital Media Literacy in a Post-Truth Anti-Trump Era

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Alexandra Juhasz
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Digital Media Literacy ◽  
Trump Administration

I have engaged in a series of linked pedagogical experiments—one woman’s pedagogic resistance, aligned with many others through making poetry together, by way of digital media literacy—over the duration of the Trump administration. These have been acts of engaged, enraged intellectual citizenship in three parts: 1. an online digital media primer about fakenews, #100hardtruths-#fakenews, produced over the first 100 days of the administration; 2. nine Fake News Poetry Workshops held over the spring semester of 2018, these making use of that online primer and co-facilitated by poets in different locations and communities, and 3. an action plan to further mobilize the primer, poems, and workshops to a scale larger than my own personal pedagogy, still in process. These experiments are first and foremost acts of civic engagement qua pedagogy, art-making, and community-building. They are organized to create and make use of responsive formats, processes, and places to better express our keen knowledge, concern, and curiosity about inter-related phenomena given the current crisis of fake news: self, community, and the world, the fake and real, our own power and that of (social) media.

scholarly journals The Use of Human Voice and Speech in Language Technologies: The EU and Russian Intellectual Property Law Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Ilya Ilin ◽  
Aleksei Kelli
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Impact ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Language Technology ◽  
Legal Risks ◽  
Copyright Laws ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Language Technologies ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Voice And Speech

 The article evaluates whether the Russian and EU copyright laws are mutually consistent in their treatment of voice and speech when used as input to the development of language technologies. The discussion is aimed at determining whether there are potential obstacles and legal risks in this regard for co-operation between language-technology developers from Russia and the EU, which could have an adverse impact on such collaboration.

scholarly journals Rewitalizacja przemysłowych miast angielskich na przykładzie Barnsley

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 183-193
Author(s):  
Marcin Kopeć
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Town Development ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Town

Polish cities need to redevelop post-industrial areas located within their boundaries. Cities’ authorities, while preparing regeneration programs, can use best practices of Western European cities. One very good example is the case of the English town Barnsley. Barnsley in earlier days was famous for coal mining, but the last pit was closed in 1994. With the demise of the coal industry, people suffered from unemployment and the town from losing its main revenue sources (in 2000, the town was ranked 16th out of 354 most deprived district of England). Town was blighted by a very high incidence of post-industrial areas: disused colliery spoil tips, pit yards and the railway infrastructure which served the collieries. For many years Barnsley has carried out an extensive land reclamation program, together with investments put into new road links and job creation schemes for the former colliery workers. Between 1982 and 2003, over 23 million GBP was spent on the restoration of over 600 hectares of derelict land. Barnsley’s vision is to be a 21st Century Market Town. Those plans are prepared for the next 30 years, and the budget of 380 million GBP (including EU co-financing) constitutes the basis for the town transformation. In 2002, the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, together with local partners, started the Rethinking Barnsley weekend, a consultation project, which was the entry for preparing the urban centre regeneration program, called Remaking Barnsley. Planned and partly realised projects include construction of the new Barnsley Interchange – bus and coach station opened in May 2007, new cultural centre in the old Civic Hall, new commercial centre in Barnsley Markets, Digital Media Centre – opened in August 2007 – an incubator of new technologies, as well as new office and residential areas in the town centre. New business parks opened the new possibilities on the labour market. A well planned and perfectly realised process of the town development, started by wide citizens’ consultancy program, treated as a basis for establishing the town development vision, transformed then into an action plan and verified by already completed projects, is a good example to be copied by Polish towns.

scholarly journals The Use of Human Voice and Speech for Development of Language Technologies: the EU and Russian Data-protection Law Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Ilya Ilin ◽  
Aleksei Kelli
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Language Technology ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
Data Protection Law ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Language Technologies ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Voice And Speech

The global character of research and business related to the language-technology sector requires those producing applications of technology in this domain to comply with relevant regulation – pertaining to intellectual property, personality rights, and data protection – applicable in multiple jurisdictions. The paper reports on research aimed at evaluating and defining conditions for the compatibility of various legal frameworks for the use of voice and speech in development and dissemination of language-technology applications from the EU and the Russian data-protection regulation perspective. The research fills a gap that is of particular relevance, in that the compatibility of Russian data-protection law with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with regard to the field of language technology has not been explored extensively. The authors draw from prior research to examine the implications in greater depth, with two foci. The first part of the article addresses the legal nature of human voice and speech. In the second part of the paper, the conditions for the development of language technologies are analysed.

“Technologies of Cooperation”: Digital Media and Social Action

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isidro Maya Jariego
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Action
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