Strategic Research, Innovation and Implementation Agenda for Digital Language Equality in Europe by 2030

Abstract This chapter presents the ELE Programme (ELE Consortium 2022). Reacting to landmark resolution (European Parliament 2018), its vision is achieve digital language equality in Europe by 2030. The programme was prepared jointly with many stakeholders from European Language Technology, Natural Processing, Computational Linguistics and language-centric AI communities, as well representatives of relevant initiatives associations, communities. still suffers strong inequalities terms technology support languages. English far best technological support, followed a cluster three languages (German, Spanish, French) that already have only half English. More than around 90 surveyed either weak or no at all. foreseen be shared, long-term funding tailored Europe’s needs, demands values. For EU we foresee role providing resources for coordinating programme, shared infrastructures, maintaining scientific goals principles, etc. participating countries development technologies datasets their own Key are reduce gap between all other address lack available data. tackles following overarching themes: Modelling , Data Knowledge Machine Translation Text Understanding Speech . These interconnected themes focus upon socio-political goal establishing DLE on Deep Understanding, both 2030.1