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  • 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…
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  • 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…
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  • 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…
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  • 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…
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  • MECILDI V1 FIRST RUN ON TRANCO SERIES
    MECILDI 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…
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  • 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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  • Le français dans le monde
    Le français dans le monde Publication by OIF/Gallimard of the report about French language in the world in which we have contributed to the chapter about languages in the Internet, pp 187-193. The full report in French is accessible here (42MB).
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  • MECILDI
    MECILDI A new section have been added under the title MAIN PROJECT 2: MECILDI. MECILDI stands for targeted measurement of languages in the Internet from its French initials. It is a new and ambitious project based on the creation of a program in capacity to extract language repartition and multilingualism parameters from any series of…
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  • From Babel to AI
    From Babel to AI Daniel Pimienta, on behalf of OBDILCI, said he was very honored to have been invited to address the issue of linguistic diversity on the Internet (English version) in the second edition of the reference work (in French). « De Babel Ă  l’intelligence artificielle – Le plurilinguisme de Dante Ă  nos jours » Christian…
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  • GROKIPEDIA ARTICLE ON FUNREDES
    https://grokipedia.com/page/funredes The Grokipedia article on Funredes (Network and Development Foundation), built on Grok exploration of multiple sources, 80 % being Funredes own web archives and publications, is really impressive in terms of digesting and reorganizing a large amount of information and giving respective priorities between a large set of elements. Hereafter, we share some comments…
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