ELRA Language Resources Association

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ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
TypeAssociation
FoundedFebruary 23rd 1995
Headquarters France
Key people
Henk van den Heuvel, President; Khalid Choukri, Secretary-General
Website www.elra.info

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

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Activities

Since its founding in 1995, [1] ELRA 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 has broadened its objectives and responsibilities towards the HLT community over the years. It is now also involved in the production and commissioning of language resources through several initiatives and is actively committed to the evaluation of language-engineering tools and 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 the identification, production, validation, distribution, and standardisation of language 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:

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 issue related to the association's 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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