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- How many languages does the Dominican web speak?
How many languages does the Dominican web speak? The MECILDI V1.8 computational framework has been applied to the ccTLD .do of Dominican Republic. Check the multilingualism indicators and language distribution. The percentage of multilingual websites places the Dominican Republic well above the global average, and the number of languages per multilingual website is very high,… - MECILDI V2 START
MECILDI V2 START The second version of the MECILDI computational framework have started. MECILDI is a framework designed to measure multilingual indicators and language distribution of any series of websites. The version 1 is a simplified approach to get first approximation answers and was concluded in June 2026. MECILDI V1 was supported by DGLFLF and… - PROJECT MECILDI V1 CONCLUDEDPROJECT MECILDI V1 CONCLUDED Version 1.8, run#10, of MECILDI has been reached, with errors corrections, improvements in error management and for the last version a functional enhancement with the measurement for each languages for the percentages of sites having a linguistic version in that language (the sum of those percentages is equal t 100% multiplied…
- AN INTERESTING AI EXPERIMENT POST MECILDI
AN INTERESTING AI EXPERIMENT POST MECILDI After the announcement of MECILDI and its preprint publication, OBDILCI conducted an experiment with eleven AI applications. Several objectives were drawn for that experiment: The results of that experiment are documented here with links to every specific conversation. There is a large level of convergence in the answers of… - ASSISES DU PLURILINGUISME
ASSISES DU PLURILINGUISME The pre-recorded version of OBDILCI’s presentation at the 7th European Conference on Multilingualism, May 22th 2026, in the session “Multilingualism and Societal and Cultural Challenges” – TB 10 – Multilingualism, a major issue for the Internet and AI, on the theme “Languages ​​and Multilingualism on the Internet: State of the Art and… - PREPRINT ON MECILDI
PREPRINT ON MECILDI Every thing you would like to know about the new OBDILCI program MECILDI to measure languages and multilingualism in any series of web site and its first outcomes is now documented in the following preprint in ResearchGate: MECILDI: computing languages and multilingualism indicators of any series of web sites with due attention… - Study on multilingualism of gTLDs of France
Study on multilingualism of gTLDs of France As second part of the project funded by DGLFLF, MECILDI was applied in the following geographic/linguistic gTLDs with the goal to collect indicators of multilingualism and language’s proportion: .alsace, .bzh (Bretagne), .corsica, .eus (basque), .gp (Guadeloupe), .nc (Nouvelle CalĂ©donie) and also .quebec and .paris. Some 20 different indicators were collected such as percentage of multilingual web, rate of multilingualism, average… - The linguistic digital divide
The linguistic digital divide The French-language Canadian journal MinoritĂ©s linguistiques et sociĂ©tĂ© publishes in its Issue 23, 2024, dedicated to “Digital Technology and Linguistic Communities in Minority Settings: Roles, Impacts, and Challenges,” an open-access article by Virginie HĂ©bert and Maria Bodron titled “The Linguistic Digital Divide: A Framing Analysis of the Literature on Language Inequalities… - MECILDI V1 FIRST RUN ON TRANCO SERIESMECILDI V1 FIRST RUN ON TRANCO SERIES April 2026: This is an historical moment for whoever is interested in languages@internet. For the first time, a language detection program is designed with due consideration to web multilingualism, correcting the strong bias of previous methods favoring English. Here are  the first  results of MECILDI version 1, applied…
- Human Resilience for the AI Age
Human Resilience for the AI Age An essay, co-written with Luis Germán RodrĂguez Leal, is published in the last production of the always impacting and stimulating Elon University’ Imagining the Digital Future Center :  “Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the AI Age”. This essay focuses the urgency and importance of pervasive and comprehensive Digital…
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