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Press Release - Immediate<br>
Paris, France, July 18, 2011<br>
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<b>ELRA receives the META Prize at the META-FORUM 2011 in Budapest</b><br>
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During the META-FORUM 2011 which took place in Budapest (Hungary) on
June 27-28, 2011, ELRA, a world-wide leading player providing
Language Resources-related services to the HLT community, has
received the META Prize for “Outstanding long-term commitment to the
preparation and distribution of language resources and
technologies”. The Prize is shared with Linguistic Data Consortium
(LDC). The META-NET Prize is awarded by the META-NET Technology
Council, a 30 members committee from HLT R&D and industry
executives and managers.<br>
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*** About ELRA ***<br>
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a world-wide
leading player in language resource distribution, sharing and
production. ELRA provides services to the language communities
related to distribution and production of resources, including
production on demand, technology evaluation and benchmarking. ELRA
organizes LREC, the major international conference devoted to
language resources and evaluation, with over 1,200 attendees from
academia and industry. The next LREC edition will be held in
Istanbul in 2012.<br>
To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elra.info">http://www.elra.info</a><br>
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*** About Meta ***<br>
META, the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance brings together
researchers, commercial technology providers, private and corporate
language technology users, language professionals and other
information society stakeholders. <br>
To find out more about META, please visit the web site: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.meta-net.eu">http://www.meta-net.eu</a><br>
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Contact : Helene Mazo, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:mazo@elda.org">mazo@elda.org</a><br>
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