7 Amendments of Pirkko RUOHONEN-LERNER related to 2018/2028(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas multilingualism is one of Europe’s greatest assets, but also one of its biggest challenges, since it creates natural barriers to the operation of the single market and increases the EU’s administrative costs;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas LTs can contribute to future European cross-border and cross- language communication, economic growth and social stability and reduce natural barriers;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 22 #
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, commerce, government and administration, reducing both costs and natural barriers to the operation of the internal market, including the labour market;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas Human Language Technologies (HLTs) in Europe are still far behind, owing to market fragmentation, uncoordinated research and insufficient funding, but they are developing rapidly and offer huge potential;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas, given that technological development can be impeded or brought to a standstill if it is path dependent, technological neutrality and a high degree of feedback must both be ensured when technology is being developed;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for earlier experience to be turned to account, one example being the development of the Internet and email as a university network internal communication tool, in order to ensure good-quality feedback, user-friendliness, and technological neutrality;