In September, a successful 3rd ELRC Workshop took place in Warsaw at the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, gathering highly engaged audience from all across Poland both onsite and online. Speakers representing various sectors, stakeholders groups, institutions, cities, and even countries gave a comprehensive overview of key aspects regarding the Polish LT and language data landscape, the EC language tools and the plans of the European Commission for the creation of the Common European Language Data Space, selected use cases, as well as other inspiring European experiences. The panelists engaged a lively discussion on language data availability and issues related with access to data from various perspectives – of public sector, academia, industry and LSPs – giving also ideas on how to improve data accessibility and sharing. The workshop was preceded by a conference of GRAI (Working Group on Artificial Intelligence) on 13 September, where the first year of the Group’s activities was summarised. The participants underlined the importance of language data for the development of language technologies in the national language, and will advocate for giving a higher priority to this topic in the Group’s further works, in particular within its sub-group on data. The Polish ELRC PS NAP Anna Kotarska is expected to start a closer collaboration with GRAI in 4Q2022. In the meantime, she also continues to deliver presentations on LT at several conferences of Polish translation associations in the context of the inflow of Ukrainian war refugees to Poland and the potential of LT to overcome communication barriers whilst providing linguistic assistance to those in need, advocating for the use of European language tools. Language Technologies for good One of the most interesting examples of using LT for good is the solution developed by Samurai Labs for cyberbullying detection for all languages, which was presented at the International Conference on Inline Harm Prevention in September 2022. The event gathered professionals from Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and psychology fields to share best practices and to exchange ideas on pioneering the neuro-symbolic approach to AI. Experts from related domains covered the findings in countering online verbal abuse and automatic cyberbullying detection as well as analyses of suicidal ideation content and current status of moderation on social media. The keynote speech was given by Michał Ptaszyński, Associate Professor at Kitami Institute of Technology in Japan. He underlined the difficulty to develop efficient cyberbullying detection methods for all languages, especially due to the lack of data. However, multilingual Large Language Models (mBERT, XLM-R) have been tested to check to what extent data from resource-rich languages can be leveraged to produce high-quality results in other languages, gaining very promising first results. All the models created during this study will be released for free later this year. Not surprisingly, Michael Wroczynski, Founder and CEO of Samurai Labs, but also a medical doctor and a therapist, is the laureate of “Leaders of the Future” by Forbes Polska Magazine (October Edition of Forbes Polska Magazine, Page 186), and Samurai Labs has been listed in the ranking of 20 companies that change Poland and the world for the better. Links:The third ELRC Workshop in PolandPodsumowanie konferencji GRAI International Conference on Online Harm Prevention 2022