European Language Resources Association

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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Type Association
Founded February 23rd 1995
Headquarters France
Key people Bente Maegaard, President
Website www.elra.info

A not-for-profit organisation, the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) association is established under the law of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Its seat is in Luxembourg, headquarters in Paris (France).

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[edit] Activities

Since its foundation in 1995, the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) has been a conduit for the distribution of speech, written and terminology Language Resources (LRs) for the Human Language Technology (HLT), a key compound of IST. In order to do so, a number of technical and logistic, commercial (prices, fees, royalties), legal (licensing, Intellectual Property Rights, Management), and information dissemination issues had to be addressed. Since its foundation, ELRA's mission has enlarged slightly, broadening its objectives and responsibilities towards the HLT community. ELRA is now involved in the production, or commissioning of the production, of language resources through a number of initiatives, also actively committed to the evaluation of language engineering tools as well as to the identification of new resources. Finally, every other year, ELRA organizes a major conference LREC on language resources and evaluation; the latest edition has taken place in May 2006 in Genoa, Italy.

[edit] Mission

The mission of the Association is to promote language resources and evaluation for the Human Language Technology sector in all their forms and their uses, in a European context. Consequently, the goals are: to coordinate and carry out identification, production, validation, distribution, standardisation of languages resources, as well as support for evaluation of systems, products, tools, etc.

[edit] ELRA Board

Current members of the board of ELRA are:

  • Board officers
    • President: Bente Maegaard (Denmark)
    • Vice-presidents:
      • Nicoletta Calzolari (Italy)
      • Martine Garnier-Rizet (France)
      • Gregor Thurmair (Germany)
    • Secretary: Robrecht Comeyne (Belgium)
    • Treasurer: Siegfried Kunzmann (Germany)
  • Board Members
      • Theo van den Heuvel (The Netherlands)
      • Asuncion Moreno (Spain)
      • Stelios Piperidis (Greece)
      • Gabor Prószéky (Hungary)
      • Hans Uszkoreit (Germany)
      • Pasi Tapanainen (Finland)
  • ELRA CEO
    • Khalid Choukri (Morocco)

[edit] ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency)

To handle every issues related to the association affairs, ELDA, Evaluations & Language resources Distribution Agency, was created, as ELRA operational body. ELDA is responsible for the development and the execution of ELRA’s strategies and plans, and handles issues related to the distribution of language resources.

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