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, looking back at LBDA’s progress previously year then into its future.

A global organization with well-structured partnership

LBDA made much headway in most field it reached in the founding year of 2016.

According to Eric Yu, LBDA continues to be moving fast on the purpose of becoming an international organization from the time its inception, striving to produce itself also known plus more influential in the world. Its membership has covered some globally renowned universities including University of Vienna, University of Geneva, and Gazi University.

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

LBDA Europe is planned to be established later this season 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 more than 30 projects over the past year such fields as speech recognition, machine translation, and analysis of huge data, said Eric Yu. Over these projects, universities and businesses worked together on translation assignments involving as many as 50 million characters.

A particular project marked a milestone within the Chinese history of translation: 750 translators from 58 universities – LBDA members – completed the translation of subtitles for 50,000-minute videos within 7 days. More projects are on just how.

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

At FIT Congress 2017 being located in Brisbane, Australia in August this coming year, LBDA – a high partner of the congress – will invite representatives in the world’s top research institutes to talk about not able to the translation industry.

In closing, Eric Yu unveiled the program for LBDA’s future development.

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

Moreover, the inaugural meeting of LBDA Europe will be held in Switzerland in September this coming year.

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

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

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