Eric Yu, secretary-general of Language Big Data Alliance (LBDA) and CEO of worldwide 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 then into its future.
A global organization with well-structured partnership
LBDA made much headway in most field it reached inside the founding year of 2016.
Based on Eric Yu, LBDA may be moving fast towards the goal of as an international organization from the time its inception, striving to produce itself better known and more influential on earth. Its membership has covered some globally renowned universities including University of Vienna, University of Geneva, and Gazi University.
Now LBDA has 138 members and also the number is anticipated to keep growing.
LBDA Europe is planned to be established later this season to market 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 in the last year in such fields as speech recognition, machine translation, and analysis of massive data, said Eric Yu. In these projects, universities and businesses worked together on translation assignments involving as many as 50 million characters.
A particular project marked a milestone in the Chinese reputation translation: 750 translators from 58 universities – LBDA members – completed the translation of subtitles for 50,000-minute videos in only a week. More projects take presctiption the way.
LBDA also seeks to facilitate the exchanges between its members as well as their counterparts abroad.
At FIT Congress 2017 to be held in Brisbane, Australia in August this year, LBDA – a premier partner of the congress – will invite representatives from your world’s top research institutes to talk about not able to the translation industry.
To summarize, Eric Yu unveiled the plan for LBDA’s future development.
The entire year of 2017 is going to be dedicated to the “sharing and exchange of resources worldwide”. LBDA will build an internet platform for its members to share and exchange resources with each other.
Moreover, the inaugural meeting of LBDA Europe is going to be locked in Switzerland in September this year.
Europe’s leading universities and research institutes in these areas as journalism, psychology, neurology, medicine, language, and business will be the founding members of LBDA Europe, and joint labs on machine translation, speech recognition, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) will be established among them. Numerous key collaborative research findings will also be announced in the meeting.
LBDA Europe will surely help foster collaborative innovation among Chinese joint labs and also the leading universities and research institutes of other countries.
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