Measuring HLT Research Equality of European Languages

Anonymous

Abstract: This work explores quantitatively the equality of the languages of the European Union in the field of HLT. Our ultimate goal is to investigate European language diversity and identify low-resource and endangered languages taking into account the research papers of the main HLT conferences. This framework has been selected with the goal to identify potential inequalities among theoretically similarly capable languages in terms of available social and economical resources as well as political status. We have identified several groups of EU languages in terms of HLT research equality, each group comprising languages of very varying number of speakers. We have discovered a relative equality among surprisingly different languages in terms of speaker base and also relevant inequalities within the most spoken languages. All data and code will be released upon acceptance.