The general aim of the Spanish Plan for the Advancement of Language Technology is to promote the development of natural language processing, machine translation and conversational systems in Spanish and co-official languages. The main guidelines defined for the Plan include:
- increasing the amount, quality and availability of linguistic infrastructure in Spanish and in Spain’s co-official languages;
- fostering the language industry by promoting knowledge transfer and internationalization from the research field to that industry;
- improving the quality and capacity of public services, integrating natural language processing and machine translation technologies.
- supporting creation, standardization and distribution of language resources created by the management activities performed by the public administrations.
In this workshop, we aim to take advantage of the organization of the IWSDS 2020 conference in Madrid to show recent initiatives and studies developed within the framework of the Plan, and define new opportunities for collaboration among academic institutions, Public Administrations and companies.