Chair: Gerhard Backfried (Saillabs, ELG), Thomas Thurner (Semantic Web Company, Pret-a-LLOD)
In the course of the projects European Language Grid (www.european-language-grid.eu) and Pret-a-LLOD (www.pret-a-llod.eu) a taxonomic description of fields, subdomains, techniques, solutions, components and entities are needed to foster exchange and interaction of the European Language Technology Sector - in both - research and industry.
In a joint effort, the mentioned projects are now driving a process, where such a taxonomy is built up, maintained and provided openly to the sector. As a goal, the Language Technology Market and Components Taxonomy will be published in its first version in late 2019. A series of consultations and workshops cornerstone the efforts of the group: