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
- European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD), European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT), and DGT’s MT@EC team – For outstanding, mission-critical and also innovative human as well as automatic contributions to enabling multilingualism in two important European institutions and among European public digital services.
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
- JRC Optima Activity/Language Technology – was awarded for the excellent use of language technologies to reduce information overload and overcome language barriers.
2011
1. META Prize
- Moses – The prize was awarded for exemplary and innovative contributions in statistical machine translation.
2. META Prize
- Jibbigo Mobile Translators, Jibbigo – was awarded for an outstanding voice translator that can translate speech on mobile devices.
- Voxalead, Exalead – was awarded for outstanding software to provide video scanning and transcription services.
- ELRA (European Language Resources Association) – The prize was awarded for exemplary long-term preparation and distribution of language resources and technology.
- LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium) – The prize was awarded for exemplary long-term preparation and distribution of language resources and technology.