On April 8, 2016, LBDA announced its establishment at the 2016 Language, Big Data and Openness Conference, with the establishment ceremony witnessed by more than 200 attendees including officials represented by Deputy Mayor Luan Xin of Qingdao, leaders of more than 100 foreign language universities, experts from research institutions, representatives of Internet companies, and big data analysts, as well as nearly 5,000 audiences who watched the event online. Vice President Pan Kaixiong of China Publishing Group, General Manger Huang Song of China Translation Corporation, President Xiu Gang of Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Vice President Qiu Ming of Beijing International Studies University, Vice President Dong Hongchuan of Sichuan International Studies University, Vice President Dang Zhengsheng of Xi'an International Studies University, and Vice President Wang Liming of Qingdao University jointly turned on the “launch light” of LBDA, marking the official establishment of LBDA.
Deputy Mayor Luan Xin of Qingdao (4th R) and other guests
Establishment Ceremony of LBDA
Jointly initiated by the China National Committee for MTI Education, China Translation Corporation, and more than 20 key universities nationwide, LBDA will, in alliance with global institutions of higher education, research institutions and enterprises, carry out extensive communications and cooperation in terms of the development, sharing and collaborative innovation of language big data with a view to benefiting the general public with the Think-Tank and making LBDA a leader in language big data development.
At the establishment ceremony, Yu Yang, CEO of Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd. (GTC Tech) introduced the Opening Program of Language Big Data. According to the Program, 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. During the meeting, tens of universities expressed their wish to accede to LBDA.
GTC Tech CEO Yu Yang is introducing the program
At the first LBDA board meeting held on April 9, issues such as membership application and management, and the establishment of internal laboratories of various disciplines were discussed concretely.
LBDA board members
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 serves as an open platform for multi-cooperation and resource sharing among governments, enterprises, colleges and universities, as well as research institutions. It aims at providing 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.