Norsk i den digitale tidsalderen - Meta-Net

them openly available to the research community
and industry.
2. Creation of missing basic tools and resources, in-
cluding multilingual tools with Norwegian as source
or target language, in standard formats with open li-
censes.
3. Basic research on the higher levels of automatic lin-
guistic analysis for Norwegian, and on the integra-
tion of statistical and rule-based LT, not least in or-
der to aim for a closer interaction between speech
and text technology.
4. Coordinated dissemination of research results to im-
prove their visibility to potential users and to attract
new scholars/students to the field.
5. Long term funding strategies for securing the devel-
opment of LRT for both Norwegian written norms
and for the minority languages.
For a small language community such as Norwegian
and a small research environment, cooperation is vital,
not only on the national level but also internationally.
Since 2000, Norwegian researchers and policy makers
have taken an active part in Nordic cooperation (e. g.,
the Nordic Language Technology Research Programme
2000–2004). It is also hoped that Norway’s participa-
tion in CLARIN and META-NORD will make set
an example to develop, standardise and share several
important LRT and thus contribute to the growth of
Norwegian language technology in a context of Euro-
pean cooperation. is should be followed up by a bet-
ter overall coordination with programmes in other EU
countries and at the European Commission level.
e long term goal of META-NET is to enable the cre-
ation of high-quality language technology for all lan-
guages. is requires all stakeholders – in politics, re-
search, business, and society – to unite their efforts.
e resulting technology will help tear down existing
barriers and build bridges between Europe’s languages,
paving the way for political and economic unity through
cultural diversity.
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