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Register a new userMalta National Language Technology Platform: A vision for enhancing Malta's official languages using Machine Translation
منصة تكنولوجيا اللغة الوطنية مالطا: رؤية لتعزيز اللغات الرسمية في مالطا باستخدام الترجمة الآلية
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في هذه الورقة، نقدم رؤية تجاه إنشاء منصة مالطا لتكنولوجيا اللغات الوطنية؛جهد مستمر يهدف إلى توفير أساس لتعزيز اللغات الرسمية في مالطا، أي المالطية والإنجليزية، باستخدام الترجمة الآلية.سيؤدي ذلك إلى المساهمة في تحسين دعم تكنولوجيا اللغة الحالية لغوية لغة الموارد المنخفضة المالطية، عبر حقول اللغويات الحسابية المتعددة، مثل معالجة الكلام والترجمة الآلية وتحليل النصوص ومصادر متعددة الوسائط.تتمثل الأهداف النهائية في إزالة الحواجز اللغوية، وزيادة إمكانية الوصول، وتعزيز الخدمات عبر الحدود، والأهم من ذلك لتسهيل الحفاظ على اللغة المالطية.
In this paper we introduce a vision towards establishing the Malta National Language Technology Platform; an ongoing effort that aims to provide a basis for enhancing Malta's official languages, namely Maltese and English, using Machine Translation. This will contribute towards the current niche of Language Technology support for the Maltese low-resource language, across multiple computational linguistics fields, such as speech processing, machine translation, text analysis, and multi-modal resources. The end goals are to remove language barriers, increase accessibility, foster cross-border services, and most importantly to facilitate the preservation of the Maltese language.
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