LBDA to develop an international Collaborative Innovation Network

Eric Yu, secretary-general of Language Big Data Alliance (LBDA) and CEO of world Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd. (GTCOM), spoke at LBDA’s 2017 annual conference in Guangzhou on April 8, in hindsight at LBDA’s progress in the past year after which into its future.

An international organization with well-structured partnership

LBDA made much headway in each and every field it reached in the founding year of 2016.

Based on Eric Yu, LBDA has been moving fast on the purpose of just as one international organization from the time its inception, striving to produce itself higher quality and more influential on the planet. Its membership has covered some globally renowned universities for example University of Vienna, University of Geneva, and Gazi University.

Now LBDA has 138 members and the number is expected to help keep growing.

LBDA Europe is scheduled to be established later this year to promote resource-sharing, exchanges, and organization of international events among its member organizations worldwide.

A global platform for collaboration and resource-sharing
LBDA has run greater than 30 projects in the last year such fields as speech recognition, machine translation, and analysis of massive data, said Eric Yu. Over these projects, universities and businesses worked together on translation assignments involving a total of 50 million characters.

One particular project marked a milestone inside the Chinese good reputation for translation: 750 translators from 58 universities – LBDA members – completed the translation of subtitles for 50,000-minute videos within a week. More projects take presctiption the way in which.

LBDA also seeks to facilitate the exchanges between its members in addition to their counterparts abroad.

At FIT Congress 2017 to be located in Brisbane, Australia in August this season, LBDA – a high partner from the congress – will invite representatives from the world’s top research institutes to speak about the future of the translation industry.

To summarize, Eric Yu unveiled the master plan for LBDA’s future development.

The entire year of 2017 is going to be focused on the “sharing and exchange of resources worldwide”. LBDA will build an online platform for its members to share with you and exchange resources with each other.

Moreover, the inaugural meeting of LBDA Europe is going to be locked in Switzerland in September this coming year.

Europe’s leading universities and research institutes in these areas as journalism, psychology, neurology, medicine, language, and business could be the founding members of LBDA Europe, and joint labs on machine translation, speech recognition, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) will be established one of them. A host of key collaborative research findings can also be announced on the meeting.

LBDA Europe will surely help foster collaborative innovation among Chinese joint labs as well as the leading universities and research institutes of other countries.

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