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Parameter
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Figures
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Comments/sources
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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.
Terminology Commission, Information Technology Subcommission.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
3: - Latvian terminology; ref. J. Borzovs, juris.borzovs@dati.lv
4: - ref. A. Spektors.
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,
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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.
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Population mid. 2001 (millions) |
2.4
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www.prb.org, mid 2001 |
Internet
penetration: total m.
Penetration rate (%) |
0.234
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BMF Gallup Media Latvia, Aug. 2000 |
9.7
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Number of ISPs |
42
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CIA World Factbook, 2001 |
Domestic internet users year 2000 |
45,000
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ESIS, January 2001 |
Number
of websites in local language*
% |
2,300
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www.securityspace.com, 2001 |
0.06
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Number
of PCs** (2000)
Penetration rate (%) Growth (years 1999/1998 - %) |
260,000
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ESIS, January 2001 / Baltic IT&T Review, end 2001 / Europemedia.net, beginning 2001 |
11
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22
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Broadband adoption, total for Baltic businesses (000s) |
11
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Baltic IT&T Review, mid 2001 |
Time online (time spent per month) |
5 min
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Europemedia.net, end 2000 |
Mobile
penetration (%)
Mobile subscriptions (including prepaid) |
23.7
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Report on the Development of Economy of Latvia, December 2001 |
560,000
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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
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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 |