Imminent was established to foster research and innovation in the field of language, with the goal of promoting understanding in our multicultural and multilingual world. The project supports our mission to advance mutual understanding through language.
In the past two years, Imminent has funded many cutting-edge projects, including one focused on collecting 50 hours of speech data in a crowdsourced version for the Yorùbá language (spoken by 45 million people in Central Africa), another investigating the impact of error detection methods on post-editing performance in real-world settings, and a neuroscientific proposal to characterize the spatio-temporal features of interhemispheric interactions between the left and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in bilingual healthy adults.
One tangible product of past grants was an entirely new T-Index, updated to identify emerging markets and opportunities, thus predicting which languages will become more relevant in the future for a given product in a given country.