The Secretary of State for Territorial Policy, Arcadi Spain, met in Madrid with representatives of different linguistic, technological and scientific bodies to promote the use of the co-official languages of the State (Catalan, Valencian, Galician and Basque) in the General Administration of the State (AGE).
This meeting was attended by Manuel Palomar, director of the Digital Intelligence Center (CENID); Marta Villegas, director of the Language Technologies Unit of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC); Senen Barro, director of the Center for Intelligent Technologies (CITIUS); Alfonso Ureña, director of the Center for Advanced Studies of ICT (CEATIC) and Germán Rigau, deputy director of the Basque Center for Language Technologies (HiTz).
The objective of the Government of Spain is to promote actions, within the framework of the Strategic Project for the Economic Recovery and Transformation (hereinafter, PERTE) of the New Language Economy, that favor in our country the new digital economy based on natural language, taking advantage of the potential of Spanish and co-official languages as a factor of economic growth and international competitiveness in areas such as artificial intelligence, translation, teaching, production and cultural dissemination, research and science.
The meeting addressed pioneering projects, such as the ILENIA Project and the ALIA Project, the advances and future proposals of the Committee on Languages, as well as the development and perspectives of the PLATA Platform, all from the point of view of possible applications and uses for the AGE.