In 2021 the Israeli National Forum for R&D Infrastructure (TELEM in Hebrew) recommended on investing in NLP capabilities in Hebrew and Arabic. Those recommendations were later adopted by the government as part of resolution 212, allocating a total of 180M NIS over a period of 3 years for the creation of corpora, model and tools that are to be made widely accessible to the IL R&D eco-system.
Name in original language
Investment in Localized NLP Infrastructure
Initiative overview
The initiative has the following objectives:Support the creation of NLP infrastructure (e.g. corpora, models and tools) for the Hebrew and Arabic languages, that are to become available for the local R&D eco systemBridging the technological gap on NLP capabilities, between English and the local languages used in Israel (Hebrew and Arabic)
Name of responsible organisation (in English)
Israel Innovation Authority (IIA)|Defense R&D Directorate (DDRD)|Ministry for Innovation Science and Technology
