On March 27, 2016, the LBDA Preliminary Conference was convened in Beijing. Executive Vice President Huang Youyi of the Translators Association of China, President Zhong Weihe of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, General Manager Huang Song of China Translation Corporation, and the representatives of more than 20 key universities nationwide attended the meeting and signed the LBDA Initiative. Mr. Huang Youyi, Mr. Zhong Weihe and Mr. Huang Song addressed at the meeting. Mr. Yu Yang, CEO of Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd. (GTC Tech) introduced the Opening Program of Language Big Data.

LBDA Preliminary Conference

GTC Tech will share its advanced technologies and platform resources such as mega corpus, machine translation (MT) system, computer aided translation (CAT) system, translation management system (TMS), language asset management system, and speech recognition system with LBDA members, and cooperate with universities, research institutions, companies and social organizations in language training & practice, scientific research, and business operations as a language service provider. Issues like the LBDA Charter, the establishment of branches, working plans, and membership application were discussed by the initiators at the meeting.

Executive Vice President Huang Youyi of the Translators Association of China

President Zhong Weihe of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

General Manager Huang Song of China Translation Corporation

GTC Tech General Manager Yu Yang

语言大数据联盟于2016年4月8日在青岛召开第一次大会，有超过100所高等院校、企业与科研机构参加会议，共同就语言大数据的共建、共享与协同进行深入地交流与分享。

The first meeting of LBDA has taken place on April 8, 2016 in Qingdao, attracting representatives of more than 100 universities, companies and research institutions to exchange ideas on the development, sharing and collaborative innovation of language big data.

Guests attending the LBDA Preliminary Conference

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About LBDA

Based on the open and shared platform of big data resources, the Language Big Data Alliance is a global, multi-field and multi-language alliance of scientific research and application. It provides colleges and universities, research institutions, enterprises and government institutions with support for activities such as teaching, practice, scientific research and business development with hundreds of millions of open corpus resources, technological resources, platform resources and others. LBDA members are granted with priority access to language big data and other platform resources, which will play an active role in their instructional practice, research project application and implementation, single-disciplinary study, talent training and others.