Assessing Multilinguality of Publicly Accessible Websites

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F22%3AMZ38U8ZM" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/22:MZ38U8ZM - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.227" target="_blank" >https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.227</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessing Multilinguality of Publicly Accessible Websites

Original language description

Although information on the Internet can be shared in many languages, the language presence on the World Wide Web is very disproportionate. The problem of multilingualism on the Web, in particular access, availability and quality of information in the world's languages, has been the subject of UNESCO focus for several decades. Making European websites more multilingual is also one of the focal targets of the Connecting Europe Facility Automated Translation (CEF AT) digital service infrastructure. In order to monitor this goal, alongside other possible solutions, CEF AT needs a methodology and easy to use tool to assess the degree of multilingualism of a given website. In this paper we investigate methods and tools that automatically analyse the language diversity of the Web and propose indicators and methodology on how to measure the multilingualism of European websites. We also introduce a prototype tool based on open-source software that helps to assess multilingualism of the Web and can be independently run at set intervals. We also present initial results obtained with our tool that allows us to conclude that multilingualism on the Web is still a problem not only at the world level, but also at the European and regional level.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

ISBN

979-10-95546-72-6

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

2108-2116

Publisher name

European Language Resources Association

Place of publication

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Event location

Marseille, France

Event date

Jan 1, 2022

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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