@inproceedings{gaspari-etal-2022-introducing,
    title = "Introducing the Digital Language Equality Metric: Technological Factors",
    author = "Gaspari, Federico  and
      Gallagher, Owen  and
      Rehm, Georg  and
      Giagkou, Maria  and
      Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Dunne, Jane  and
      Way, Andy",
    editor = "Aldabe, Itziar  and
      Altuna, Bego{\~n}a  and
      Farwell, Aritz  and
      Rigau, German",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = jun,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.tdle-1.1",
    pages = "1--12",
    abstract = "This paper introduces the concept of Digital Language Equality (DLE) developed by the EU-funded European Language Equality (ELE) project, and describes the associated DLE Metric with a focus on its technological factors (TFs), which are complemented by situational contextual factors. This work aims at objectively describing the level of technological support of all European languages and lays the foundation to implement a large-scale EU-wide programme to ensure that these languages can continue to exist and prosper in the digital age, to serve the present and future needs of their speakers. The paper situates this ongoing work with a strong European focus in the broader context of related efforts, and explains how the DLE Metric can help track the progress towards DLE for all languages of Europe, focusing in particular on the role played by the TFs. These are derived from the European Language Grid (ELG) Catalogue, that provides the empirical basis to measure the level of digital readiness of all European languages. The DLE Metric scores can be consulted through an online interactive dashboard to show the level of technological support of each European language and track the overall progress toward DLE.",
}