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<div align="center"><b>PRESS RELEASE<br><br>
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<b><u>Contact:</u> </b> Bente Maegaard, ELRA President
(<a href="mailto:bente@cst.dk">bente@cst.dk</a>)
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ELRA CEO (<a href="mailto:choukri@elda.org">choukri@elda.org</a>)<br>
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To celebrate ELRA 10th anniversary, a 2-day <b>workshop dedicated to
Human Language Technologies (HLT) Evaluation</b> will be held in Malta
<b><u>on December 1st and 2nd</u>.<br>
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In organizing this workshop, ELRA, whose main missions over the past
decade have been to promote language resources for the HLT sector, and to
promote evaluation language engineering technologies, intends to bring
together the HLT Evaluation key players to discuss the HLT evaluation
from various perspectives: general principles and purposes, technologies,
current evaluation projects (past and on-going), worldwide initiatives,
etc. All the sessions of the full event are described in the preliminary
Workshop programme
(<a href="file:///www.elra.info">www.elra.info</a>). The main
objective of the workshop is to allow a fruitful brainstorming on the HLT
evaluation starting from what is being done today and what should be done
better, differently, etc. All sectors of HLT will be addressed (speech
technologies, machine translation and speech to speech translation,
information retrieval/filtering, multimodal interfaces, etc.).<br><br>
The number of participants will be limited to 50 to make the event very
productive.<br>
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<i>Among the speakers who have confirmed their participation are: <b>Nick
Campbell, Jean Carletta, Christian Fluhr, Dafydd Gibbon, Tony Hartley,
Harald Höge, Maghi King, Gianni Lazzari, Joseph Mariani, Keith Miller,
Patrick Paroubek, Carol Peters, Martin Rajman, Gregor Thumair, and
European Commission representatives.<br>
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The workshop will start on <b>Thursday December, 1st at 09:00 </b>and
close<b> </b>on<b> Friday December, 2nd at 15:45. <br>
</b>It will take place at the Victoria Hotel in Sliema (Malta). For all
venue details, please contact Helene Mazo.<br><br>
*** About ELRA *** <br>
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit making
organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the mission
of providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human
Language Technologies (HLT). For a decade now, ELRA has been
participating in the development of HLT among the players on national,
European and international levels.<br><br>
To find more about ELRA, please visit our web site:
<a href="http://www.elra.info/">www.elra.info</a><br>
Helene Mazo, <a href="mailto:mazo@elda.org">mazo@elda.org</a><br>
+ 33 1 43 13 33 34<br><br>
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