Innovations and challenges in the digital transformation of the Lithuanian language industry
The article presents the current information system (online infrastructure) of the resources of the Lithuanian language (http://lkiis.lki.lt/) and developing this system within the framework of a new project funded by the European Union structural funds. The project is expected to achieve the following goals: integrate another 3 monolingual Lithuanian language resources, which is undergoing an overhaul (http://lkiis.lki.lt/ → https://ekalba.lt/public#/home/main): digitalised the great Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language (20 volumes), the digital Dictionary of the Standard Lithuanian Language with a list of titles, and the digital Database of Lithuanian Neologisms; design a semantic WordNet of the Lithuanian language and some more new e-services for the users. Also, the development of the Term Bank of the Republic of Lithuania (the data administrator and manager of the Information System of the Lithuanian Term Bank is the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language, see http://terminai.vlkk.lt/) as well as the information about some other innovative digital resources, public services and language tools in Lithuanian language industry are presented, and various challenges are provided.