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<b>Press Release – 2010 ELRA membership<br>
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Join ELRA <br>
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The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit
making organisation founded under the auspices of the European
Commission in 1995, with the mission of providing a clearing house for
language resources and promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT).
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ELRA’s missions are to promote Language Resources (LRs) for the Human
Language Technology (HLT) sector, and to evaluate language engineering
technologies. To achieve these two major missions, we offer the
following range of services: identification of LRs, production of LRs,
validation of LRs, evaluation of systems, products, tools, etc.,
related to LRs, distribution of LRs, promotion of best practices and
standardisation.<br>
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To play a determining role as a HLT community leader, ELRA also
supports the infrastructure for evaluation campaigns and the
development of a scientific field of LRs and evaluation, e.g. via the
organisation of the LREC conference (see information on LREC 2010
below).<br>
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2010 ELRA membership is open to all institutions wishing to benefit
from ELRA services (see further below). To join, please fill in the
online membership form here:<br>
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href="http://www.elra.info/scripts/adhform.php">http://www.elra.info/scripts/adhform.php</a><br>
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<b>Major ELRA event this year: LREC2010</b><br>
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Among a large variety of activities forecast this year, ELRA will be
happy to welcome participants to the 7th edition of LREC (Language
Resources and Evaluation Conference).<br>
The event will take place at the Mediterranean Conference
Centre in Valetta (Malta), on May 17-23, 2010.<br>
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The conference web site can be accessed from:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010</a>.
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All the information related to the
conference will be available from this web site and updated on a
regular basis.<br>
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For any question on the conference, please contact: <a
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href="mailto:lrec@lrec-conf.org">lrec@lrec-conf.org</a><br>
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<b>Members’ Benefits</b><br>
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By joining us and becoming an ELRA member, you will benefit from: <br>
- Price discounts on the resources, up to 70% reduction on some
items. In addition, discounts on related technical publications,
commercial reports, etc.<br>
- Information on other databases available or databases being
developed.<br>
- Legal and contractual assistance. This could be when you are
negotiating for a resource with a producer or if you need information
on other contractual or legal matters.<br>
- Various publications: Special News and Updates on association
affairs are issued via e-mail in the monthly Members Bulletin. The ELRA
Web site features a section for members only, where internal reports
and statistics can be found.<br>
- First-hand information on the results from the ELRA studies.<br>
- Discount of LREC registration fees<br>
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<b>Find out more about ELRA by visiting our web site: <a
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href="http://www.elra.info">http://www.elra.info</a></b> <br>
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