On 19 January 2023, the service contract between the European Commission and a consortium of four partners on the creation and implementation of a Common European Language Data Space (LDS) came into force.

The goal of this project is to establish a European platform and marketplace for the collection, creation, sharing and re-use of multilingual and multimodal language data.

With the LDS, relevant stakeholders, e.g., from the publishing, language technology or press industry, will be able to share and also monetise their language data and other language resources (e.g., language models) through a single platform, taking EU values and compliance with EU rules fully into account. As a result, the LDS will significantly increase the much-needed availability of quality data to support the creation and deployment of large language models (LLMs) and other AI-based language technology services for a range of businesses.

The creation of the LDS platform will represent a true turning point in the approach to the collection of language resources, as it will help the European industry to compete globally with the LT services provided by US companies, and to build trust throughout the language data sharing process.

The LDS Consortium, coordinated by the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), includes the R.C. "Athena" with its Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), the Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) and the technology and localisation company Tilde.

More details will be provided soon on the dedicated website. In the meantime, you can subscribe to the @LangDataSpace.

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/login?universe=lds&page=summary