Fakta om Sprogteknologien i Letland/
Factsheet on HLT in Latvia

Euromap partnere har som opgave at kortlægge sprogteknologien i de lande der nu ansøger om optagelse i EU.  Euromap-DK har kortlagt sprogteknologien i Letland.  Dette kan også downloades som en .pdf fil.

Euromap has the task of mapping HLT in the countries now applying for membership of the EU. Euromap-DK has produced this factsheet on Latvia which can also be downloaded as a .pdf file.

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LATVIA
Parameter
Figures
Comments/sources
Language populations (national) Latvian: 1.37 mill. Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia.
www.csb.lv
Language populations (minority) Russian: 0.7 mill.
Byeloruss.: 0.1 mill.
Ukrainian: 0.06 mill.
Polish: 0.06 mill.
Lithuanian: 0.03 mill.
Other lang.: 0.08 mill.
Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia.
www.csb.lv.

Population census of March 2000.

HLT R&D centres (academic)

Speech and dialogue technology

Text and other technologies

3 AiLab, Inst.of Math.&Comp.Sc.
http://www.ailab.lv

Lab.of Comp.Ling.Univ.of Latv.
Address: Visvalza 4a, 1050 Riga

Terminology Commission, Information Technology Subcommission.
http://www.lza.lv/lat/TK/sakumlapa.htm

HLT R&D centres (industrial)

Speech and dialogue technology

Text and other technologies

1 SIA Tilde
http://www.tilde.lv
HLT niche suppliers (companies

Speech products

Text and k-m products

Translation products

2 SIA Tilde
http://www.tilde.lv

Translation and Terminology Centre.
http://www.ttc.lv/

HLT channel suppliers

Any major software or telecoms companies promoting HLT

1 Jumava, www.jumava.lv
Major national HLT products

Speech

Text and k-m

Translation

   
Government HLT R&D actions or programmes 1:Commission of the Official Language.

2:"Letonika".
 
 

3:Information Technology and Telecommunication.

4:Software for Latvian Speech Processing.
 

5:Automated Synthesis of Language-independent Representation of the Text.
 

6:Europeanization of the Latvian Language.
 

7: Latvian Terminology.

1: - subcommission Latvian Language in new technologies, www.president.lv

2: Latvian Studies, National programme.
www.lzp.lv/latv/Progr19.htm
www.lza.lv/ZV/zv020100.htm#4

3: - Latvian terminology; ref. J. Borzovs, juris.borzovs@dati.lv
 

4: - ref. A. Spektors.
Address:Raina bulvaris 29, 1459 Riga
 

5: - ref. I. Skadina, inguna@ailab.mii.lu.lv
 
 
 
 

6: Impact on Translation and Lexicography Processes; ref. A. Vejsbergs, anveis@lanet.lv

7: National and International Aspect; ref. V. Skujina,
vaska@lza.lv

Number of HLT related university courses (e.g. language engineering) 2 Course "Computational Linguistics" for students of Philology, address: Visvalza 4a, 1050 Riga

Seminar in Computational Linguistics for B.A. students in computer science.
www.ailab.lv


 
Population mid. 2001 (millions)
2.4
www.prb.org, mid 2001
Internet penetration: total m.

Penetration rate (%)

0.234
BMF Gallup Media Latvia, Aug. 2000
9.7
Number of ISPs
42
CIA World Factbook, 2001
Domestic internet users year 2000
45,000
ESIS, January 2001
Number of websites in local language*

%

2,300
www.securityspace.com, 2001
0.06
Number of PCs** (2000)

Penetration rate (%)

Growth (years 1999/1998 - %)

260,000
ESIS, January 2001 / Baltic IT&T Review, end 2001 / Europemedia.net, beginning 2001
11
22
Broadband adoption, total for Baltic businesses (000s)
11
Baltic IT&T Review, mid 2001
Time online (time spent per month)
5 min
Europemedia.net, end 2000
Mobile penetration (%)

Mobile subscriptions (including prepaid)

23.7
Report on the Development of Economy of Latvia, December 2001
560,000
ICT market value (millions of Euro) Mobile 

tel. sets 14.6***

Europemedia.net, 2001
PCs 38.1**** 
IT spending year 1999 (Euro) Per capita 63 ESIS, January 2001
IT % GDP 2.1
Growth (%) 7
B2C Ecommerce year 2000 (millions of Euro) Total 0.2 ESIS, January 2001
B2B Ecommerce spending year 2000 (total for Baltic states - millions of Euro) Value 15 Baltic IT&T Review, mid 2001

 
E-commerce domains (B2C)
20
ESIS, January 2001 / Baltic IT&T Review, mid 2001
IT market by country year 1999 (millions of Euro) Value 150 
Growth 7
ICT market by country year 1999 (millions of Euro) Value 537
Growth 11
* Data are referred to the number of servers by domain (i.e.: .at, .be, .uk etc)
** Data are inclusive of portable and desktops as of end December 2000
***First half of 2001 - imports only
****PCs and servers - year 2000