New Report on Danish Language Technology

Ten years ago, the white paper "The Danish Language in the Digital Age" was published, which described the status of Danish language technology at that time. The white paper has now been updated. The good news of the report is that Denmark in the last 3-4 years has come a long way in terms of understanding the importance of developing and sharing Danish language resources and data sets. Tentative counts show that more than 70 companies and public institutions in Denmark today work with Danish language technology to some extent, and language technology is central to the government's AI strategy from 2019. In 2020, the Danish Agency For Digitisation thus launched a language technology portal, sprogteknologi.dk, where you can share language resources and thereby boost the Danish language in AI. The agency also finances initiatives within language comprehension and speech technology. However, the report also shows that Denmark is located in the middle of the field in a European comparison in spite of our general high degree of digitalisation, so there is still a need for an active effort.

The report can be found here:  https://european-language-equality.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ELE___Deliverable_D1_9__Language_Report_Danish_.pdf

The report has been written in the context of the EU project “European Language Equality” together with 48 reports from other European languages.