Category: Announcements

PROJECT 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…

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…

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…

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:…

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 Calédonie) and also .quebec and .paris. Some…

The linguistic digital divide The French-language Canadian journal Minorités linguistiques et société 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 Hébert and Maria…

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…

Human Resilience for the AI Age An essay, co-written with Luis Germán Rodríguez 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…

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…

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…