
CRACKER – Cracking the Language Barrier
Coordination, Evaluation and Resources for European MT Research

Current Activities
META-FORUM 2017
META-FORUM is a international conference on powerful language technologies for the multilingual information society, the data value chain and the information market place.
META-FORUM 2017 takes place on 13/14 November 2017 (Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium).
Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
Language Technologies for Multilingual Europe:
Towards a Human Language Project
Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA Version 1.0).
Cracking the Language Barrier federation
CRACKER has initiated the Cracking the Language Barrier federation which assembles almost all European research and innovation projects as well as related community organisations working on or with crosslingual or multilingual technologies, in neighbouring areas or on closely related topics.
Europe’s Leading Role in Machine Translation
How Europe Is Driving the Shift to MT. By Arle R. Lommel and Donald A. DePalma (Common Sense Advisory). June 2016
META-SHARE
META-SHARE is an open resource infrastructure for language data, tools and related web services documented with high-quality metadata. CRACKER is supporting META-SHARE in terms of maintenance and other tasks.
LREC 2016 Workshop: Translation evaluation – From fragmented tools and data sets to an integrated ecosystem
24 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia
First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16) at ACL 2016
11-12 August 2016 in Berlin, Germany
International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) 2016
8-9 December 2016 in Seattle, USA