European Language Resources Association

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

European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Association
FoundedFebruary 23rd 1995
HeadquartersFrance
Key people
Henk van den Heuvel, President; Khalid Choukri, Secretary-General
Websitewww.elra.info

Activities

Since its founding in 1995,[1] the European Language Resources Association has been a conduit for the distribution of speech, written, and terminology language resources (LRs) for human language technology (HLT), a key component of information society technologies (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.

ELRA broadening its objectives and responsibilities towards the HLT community over the years, and is now also involved in the production, or commissioning of the production, of language resources through a number of initiatives, and actively committed to the evaluation of language-engineering tools as well as to the identification of new resources. The set up of the identification number system ISLRN,[2] endorsed by NLP12 in 2013, is the most recent initiative led by ELDA to enhance the identification of language resources and their citation in publications.

Every other year, ELRA organizes a major conference, the International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC).

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. Information Dissemination is also part of ELRA's missions which is carried through both the organisation of the conference LREC and the Language Resources and Evaluation Journal[3] edited by Springer.

ELRA Board

Current members of the board of ELRA are:

  • Board officers
    • President
      • Henk van den Heuvel (The Netherlands)
    • Vice-president
      • Thierry Declerck (Germany)
    • Secretary: Maria Gavrilidou (Greece)
    • Treasurer: Tatjana Gornostaja (Latvia)
  • Board Members
      • Gilles Adda (France)
      • Nuria Bel (Spain)
      • Antonio Branco (Portugal)
      • Marko Grobelnik (Slovenia)
      • Simonetta Montemagni (Italy)
    • Honorary Presidents
      • Nicoletta Calzolari (Italy)
      • Joseph Mariani (France)
    • ELRA Secretary General
      • Khalid Choukri (France)

Antonio Zampolli Prize

The ELRA Board has created a prize to honour the memory of its first president, Professor Antonio Zampolli, a pioneer and visionary scientist who was internationally recognized in the field of computational linguistics and Human Language Technologies (HLT). He also contributed much through the establishment of ELRA and the LREC conference. To reflect Antonio Zampolli’s specific interest in our field, the Prize is awarded to individuals whose work lies within the areas of Language Resources and Language Technology Evaluation with acknowledged contributions to their advancement. So far, the Antonio Zampolli Prize was awarded to:

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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See also

References
  1. Khalid Choukri, Valérie Mapelli, Hélène Mazo and Vladimir Popescu, "LR Infrastructures and Architectures, LR National/International Projects, Infrastructural/Policy Issues"
  2. Valérie Mapelli, Vladimir Popescu, Lin Liu and Khalid Choukri, "Language Resource Citation: The ISLRN Dissemination and Further Developments"
  3. Language Resources and Evaluation Journal
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