The Spanish government has announced a dramatic budget increase for the Royal Spanish Academy, which promotes the Spanish language, in part to fund research into artificial intelligence.
About €15 million will be allocated to the academy over 2020-22, the Spanish ministry of science, innovation and universities announced in late August. This represents the largest increase in public funding in 15 years, it said, and follows a 57 per cent reduction since 2011, from €3.9m annually then to €1.7m in 2019.
The ministry said that the development of language technologies based on artificial intelligence is presenting a “great challenge” to the academy, and that some of the funding will be used to overcome this hurdle. It will support activities including research into language processing, machine learning and the mistakes that automated systems make in their use of language, the ministry said.
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