{"id":5095,"date":"2023-09-20T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/?post_type=press_release&p=5095"},"modified":"2023-11-26T13:39:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T13:39:26","slug":"next-step-in-artificial-intelligence-applications-in-hebrew-and-arabic","status":"publish","type":"press_release","link":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/press_release\/next-step-in-artificial-intelligence-applications-in-hebrew-and-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"Next step in Artificial Intelligence applications in Hebrew and Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Projects to serve as infrastructure for R&D in various fields.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dror Bin, CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority<\/strong>: \u201cIn order to promote the integration of Artificial Intelligence into the Israeli high-tech industry and enable Israeli citizens to benefit from the fruits of this technology, we are keen to promote and advance activity in this area. This program is crucial for realizing Israel’s unique data potential in Hebrew and Arabic, facilitating the adoption of Artificial Intelligence in the industry, and advancing innovation in Israel. These infrastructures will lead to significant and open applications for the benefit of Israeli residents and enable companies developing products in this field to sell both domestically and internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As part of the implementation of the National Artificial Intelligence Plan and the initiative to create research and development infrastructure and advanced capabilities in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in spoken Hebrew and Arabic, the Innovation Authority today announced its approval of 17 different projects in industry and academia, with a total budget of approximately 30 million NIS, which will facilitate the leap in AI applications in Hebrew and Arabic, requiring natural language processing as part of the solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New solutions and applications in the field of artificial intelligence are emerging almost on a daily basis. However, the gap between existing capabilities for Hebrew and Arabic and more common languages (such as English) is significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To narrow this gap, a wide range of infrastructures are required for application developers dependent on language. This call for proposals has promoted infrastructure activity to implement natural language-based artificial intelligence technologies and called on researchers, developers, academia, and industry to rise to this challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Funding for approved projects will provide infrastructures and data repositories in general and specific areas, enabling a wide range of tasks from academia and industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are the approved projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These projects will work to reduce existing gaps in the capabilities of Hebrew and Arabic language processing and some of them even challenge the global State of The Art in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Approximately 30 million NIS in 17 projects focused on NLP models in Hebrew and Arabic Next step in Artificial Intelligence applications in Hebrew and Arabic Israel Innovation Authority to invest approximately 30 million NIS in 17 projects focused on creating and providing access to data and language models in Hebrew and Arabic Projects to serve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5417,"parent":0,"template":"","geographic_location":[94,95,106,110,96,120,138,111,108],"collaboration_opportunities":[97,98,99,100,102,101],"mini_site_category":[],"class_list":["post-5095","press_release","type-press_release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","geographic_location-america","geographic_location-asia-pacific","geographic_location-canada","geographic_location-china","geographic_location-europe","geographic_location-hong-kong","geographic_location-israel","geographic_location-japan","geographic_location-united-states","collaboration_opportunities-academia","collaboration_opportunities-enterprise","collaboration_opportunities-entrepreneur","collaboration_opportunities-government","collaboration_opportunities-investors","collaboration_opportunities-media"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n