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ELRA – European Language Resources Association-Background, Recent Developments and Future Perspectives

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The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) was founded in 1995 with the mission of providing language resources (LR) to European research institutions and companies. In this paper we describe the background, the mission and the major activities since then.

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Abbreviations

BLARK:

Basic LAnguage Resource Kit

EC:

European Commission

ELARK:

Extended Language Resource Kit

ELRA:

The European Language Resources Association

HLT:

Human Language Technology

IST:

Information Society Technologies

LDC:

Linguistic Data Consortium

LE:

Language Engineering

LR:

Language Resources

LT:

Language Technology

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  1. CST, Center for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80, 2300, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Bente Maegaard

  2. ELDA, France

    Khalid Choukri

  3. Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Nicoletta Calzolari

  4. Scansoft, Belgium

    Jan Odijk

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Maegaard, B., Choukri, K., Calzolari, N. et al. ELRA – European Language Resources Association-Background, Recent Developments and Future Perspectives. Language Res Eval 39, 9–23 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-005-2692-5

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