9 Amendments of Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI related to 2018/2028(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas there are 24 official languages and more than 60 national and regional languages in the European Union; whereas multilingualism presents one of the greatest assets of cultural diversity in Europe and, at the same time, one of the most significant challenges for the creawell- functioning of a truly integrated EUthe EU common policies;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas technological mastery of human language could enable a wide range of innovative IT products and services in industry, research, commerce, government and administration;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Supports the creation of a coordinated initiative with a robust, large- scale and long-termsustainable funding scheme on HLTs with the aim of tackling deep natural language understanding at European, national and regional level, including the participation of research centres, enterprises, in particular SMEs, and relevant stakeholders; stresses that this project should be open, cloud-based and interoperable and provide highly scalable, high-performance and robust basic tools for several LT applications;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the development of actions and appropriate funding with the aim of enabling and empowerSupports the actions aimed at enabling European SMEs to easily have access and use LTs in order to grow their businesses online, thereby boosting their levels of innovation and creating job by accessing new markets and development opportunities;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Points out that digital technology has had a significant impact on language evolution in the last decade which is still hard to evaluate; recommends to policy makers to seriously consider studies showing that digital communication is eroding the literacy skills of young adults leading to grammar and literacy barriers between generations and a general language depletion; is of opinion that digital communication should serve to broaden, enrich and advance languages and that these developments should be reflected in national literacy education and literacy policies;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Supports the development of multilingual public services in European, national, and, - where appropriate - regional and local administrations with innovative, inclusive and assistive HLTs, which will reduce inequalities among languages, promote equal access to services and stimulate the mobility of businesses, citizens and workers in Europe.;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Draws attention that the fact that most of journals included in the Web of Science (WoS) publish in English together with institutional policies that advance the English-medium publishing agenda create a major shift in the creation and distribution of academic knowledge, since exporting research produced in local contexts for global, English-speaking audiences may hinder the development of local research cultures and societies more broadly; stresses the necessity to reflect these conditions of knowledge production in European research and innovation policies and programmes and to support development of artificial intelligence for natural language processing benefiting the scientific community;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Draws attention that since most of journals included in the Web of Science (WoS) publish in English and institutional policies advance the English- medium publishing agenda this creates a major shift in the creation and distribution of academic knowledge, because exporting research produced in local contexts for global, English- speaking audiences may hinder the development of local research cultures and societies more broadly; stresses the necessity to reflect these conditions of knowledge production in European research and innovation policies and to support development of artificial intelligence for natural language processing benefiting the scientific community;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Points out that linguistic, literature and cultural studies should not remain only within the preserve of students in the humanities, but extend to other areas of national priority, including STEM, since this knowledge is critical for development of efficient language technologies which properly reflect particularities of languages and cultures such as phraseology, terms of respect and historical connotations and prevents the shallowing of languages;