Open Call #1

The first ELG open call was closed on April 30, 2020. In total, 110 project proposals were accepted for evaluation with applicants for 29 countries.

We received slightly more project proposals from SMEs (62) than research organisations (48). The majority of the proposals focused on contributing resources, services, tools, or data sets to the European Language Grid platform to increase its coverage (79), while there are 31 proposals developing applications using language resources and technologies available in the ELG platform.

The ELG Pilot Board has selected 10 projects, amounting to a funding sum of EUR 1,363,915 in total. The selected projects are currently running and should deliver their results by July 2021.

The whole ELG team is excited about this enormous interest in the European Language Grid and the Language Technology topic in general. Congratulations to all successful applicants!

Selected projects

Organisation	Project Title	Country	Funding awarded	Completed	Results
Fondazione Bruno Kessler	European Clinical Case Corpus	Italy	EUR 139,370	☑	Video
Lingsoft, Inc.	Lingsoft Solutions as Distributable Containers	Finland	EUR 140,625	☑	Video
Coreon GmbH	MKS as Linguistic Linked Open Data	Germany	EUR 167,375	☑	Video
Elhuyar Fundazioa	Basque-speaking smart speaker based on Mycroft AI	Spain	EUR 117,117	☑	Video
Universita' Degli Studi di Torino	Italian EVALITA Benchmark Linguistic Resources, NLP Services and Tools [...]	Italy	EUR 126,125	☑	Video
University of Helsinki	Open Translation Models, Tools and Services	Finland	EUR 154,636	☑	Video
Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna	Extracting Terminological Concept Systems from Natural Language Text	Austria	EUR 132,977	☑	Video
University of Turku, Turku NLP research group	Textual paraphrase dataset for deep language modelling	Finland	EUR 166,085	☑	Video
Weber Consulting KG	Virtual Personal Assistant Prototype	Austria	EUR 87,445	☑	Video
FZI Research Center for Information Technology	Streaming Language Processing in Manufacturing	Germany	EUR 132,160	☑	Video

The first rejected proposal has received 273 out of 360 points. Learn more about the evaluation criteria here.

For more information on the ELG open calls, don’t hesitate to contact us at pilot-projects@european-language-grid.eu.