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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 24pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Press Release Immediate - Paris, France, 24 mars
2009<br>
2009 ELRA Membership<br>
</span></b><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB"></span></b><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<b>Join
ELRA <o:p></o:p></b>
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style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">2009 ELRA
membership is open to all institutions wishing to benefit from ELRA
services.
To join, please fill in the online membership form here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><a
href="http://www.elra.info/scripts/adhform.php">http://www.elra.info/scripts/adhform.php</a></span></b><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Members’
Benefits</span></strong><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">By joining us
and becoming an ELRA member, you will benefit from:<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><b>Price discounts</b> on the resources, up to 70%
reduction on some items. In
addition, discounts on related technical publications, commercial
reports, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</b></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><b>Information</b> on other databases available or
databases being developed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><b>Legal and contractual assistance</b>. This could be
when you are negotiating
for a resource with a producer or if you need information on other
contractual
or legal matters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Various <b>publications</b>: Special News and Updates on
association affairs
are issued via e-mail in the monthly Members Bulletin. The ELRA Web
site
features a section <br>
for members only, where internal reports and statistics can
be found.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">First-hand information on the results from the ELRA
studies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Discount of <b>LREC </b>registration fees<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Contact:
Valerie Mapelli (<a href="mailto:mapelli@elda.org">mailto:mapelli@elda.org</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">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 <br>
house for language resources and
promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT). Find out more about ELRA
by
visiting our web site: <a href="http://www.elra.info/">http://www.elra.info</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">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, <br>
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 <br>
and standardisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">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 <br>
of the LREC conference (<a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/">http://www.lrec-conf.org</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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