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Lingsoft at European Language Grid's Meta-forum on Nov 15th
Lingsoft will participate in Meta-forum 2021, which is the third annual European Language Grid (ELG) conference.
Docker and API workshop
Lingsoft arranged a Docker and API workshop for beginners as part of our "Microservices at Your Service" project. Filip Ginter and Juhani Luotolahti from Turku NLP group assisted Lingsoft's Sebastian Andersson with the workshop presentations. The workshop is targeted at people interested in speech and language technology development who are beginners at REST API and Docker.
Lingsoft has made their set of Nordic NLP tools available on the European Language Grid (ELG
The goal of the ELG platform is to become the primary platform for European language technology and to provide an easy way to integrate language technology in other solutions. The ELG provides access to hundreds of commercial and non-commercial language technologies for all European languages, including both tools and services, as well as data sets and resources.
Lingsoft only Finnish company in CSA Research Top100 list
The US-based CSA Research has published its list of the 100 largest language service companies for the 17th time. Lingsoft has been on the list for ten consecutive years with a ranking of 66 this year. We are the only Finnish company to make it onto the list.
Lingsoft continues its partnership with the City of Turku
Lingsoft has signed agreements with the City of Turku for translations into English and Swedish, video subtitling, and medical transcription services. The agreements entered into force in the summer of 2021. The total value of the agreements is over 450,000 euros.
The Europe forum event in Turku discusses the future of Europe
The Europe Forum in Turku is organised for the fourth time from 25 to 27 August 2021. This year’s theme is “Towards the Future of Europe”. The forum brings together people from different areas of life: policy makers, non-governmental organisations, industry, social partners, experts, and citizens.
Survey: Lingsoft is among the biggest language service companies in the world
The U.S.-based consultancy firm Nimdzi published their report on the world's hundred biggest language service companies for 2021. The report is based on surveys and financial data published by the companies. Lingsoft is the only Finnish company included in this report on the one hundred biggest language service providers in the world. Lingsoft has maintained its position in the TOP100 list for several consecutive years.
European Commission Awards Lingsoft Translation Contracts for Finnish and Swedish
The European Commission has awarded Lingsoft Language Services Oy framework contracts for translation services into Finnish and Swedish. The value of the contracts totals five million euros. Lingsoft has been a contractor of Finnish translation services to the European Commission for nearly 20 years. With the new contracts, Lingsoft’s cooperation with the European Commission will also cover Swedish translations.
Lingsoft assists the Finnish Parliament's Records Office in remote work using a speech recognition service
In the beginning of April, Lingsoft had the pleasure of starting a unique cooperation: We will help the experts at Parliament's Records Office to work remotely with Lingsoft's speech recognition service! Due to the exceptional circumstances, the Records Office has started working remotely, and Lingsoft is offering speech recognition services to the Records Office until the end of June.
European Parliament Awards Lingsoft Three Major Translation Contracts
The European Parliament has awarded Lingsoft Language Services Oy the main contracts for translation services into Finnish and Swedish as well as a secondary contract for translation services into Danish. The value of the contracts totals over 10 million euros.