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META Prize: The Winners

The META Prize is awarded by the META Technology Council to outstanding products, services or personal contributions supporting the European Multilingual Information Society.

2019

META Prize

  • Jill Evans – for her supportive work regarding the European Parliament report “Language equality in the digital age”, published in 2018.

Honorary META Prize

  • Algirdas Saudargas – for his continued support of Multilingual Europe and the META-NET initiative.

2017

META Prize

2016

META Prize

  • InterACT – For outstanding and innovative contributions to cross-lingual and multilingual communication technologies.

2015

META Prize

  • BabelNet – for groundbreaking work in overcoming language barriers through a multilingual lexicalised semantic network and ontology making use of heterogeneous data sources. The resulting encyclopedic dictionary provides concepts and named entities lexicalised in many languages, enriched with semantic relations.

2013

META Prize

  • The Rosetta Foundation – for their groundbreaking work enabling the global conversation in communities and social localization, making information available to individuals irrespective of their social status, linguistic or cultural background.

2012

META Prize

2011

1. META Prize

  • Moses – The prize was awarded for exemplary and innovative contributions in statistical machine translation.

2. META Prize

  • Voxalead, Exalead – was awarded for outstanding software to provide video scanning and transcription services.