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<p><i>Press Release - Immediate - Paris, France, December 13, 2013</i></p>
<p><strong>Establishing the International Standard Language Resource
Number (ISLRN)</strong></p>
<p>12 major NLP organisations announce the establishment of the
ISLRN, a Persistent Unique Identifier, to be assigned to each
Language Resource.</p>
<p>On November 18, 2013, 12 NLP organisations have agreed to
announce the establishment of the International Standard Language
Resource Number (ISLRN), a Persistent Unique Identifier, to be
assigned to each Language Resource. Experiment replicability, an
essential feature of scientific work, would be enhanced by such
unique identifier. Set up by ELRA, LDC and AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA,
the ISLRN Portal will provide unique identifiers using a
standardised nomenclature, as a service free of charge for all
Language Resource providers. It will be supervised by a steering
committee composed of representatives of participating
organisations and enlarged whenever necessary.</p>
<p>More information on ELRA and the ISLRN, please contact:
Khalid Choukri
<a href="http://www.elra.info/Establishing-the-ISLRN.html#"
title="choukri..åt..elda.org"
onclick="location.href=lancerlien('choukri','elda.org'); return
false;" class="spip_mailto">choukri<span class="cryptOK">@</span>elda.org</a></p>
<p>More information on ELDA, please contact:
Hélène Mazo
<a href="http://www.elra.info/Establishing-the-ISLRN.html#"
title="mazo..åt..elda.org"
onclick="location.href=lancerlien('mazo','elda.org'); return
false;" class="spip_mailto">mazo<span class="cryptOK">@</span>elda.org</a></p>
<p>ELRA</p>
<p>55-57, rue Brillat Savarin</p>
<p>75013 Paris (France)</p>
<p>Tel.: +33 1 43 13 33 33</p>
<p>Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30</p>
<p>*** 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).</p>
<p>To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site: <a
href="http://www.elra.info" class="spip_out">www.elra.info</a></p>
<p>*** About NLP12***
<br>
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Asian Federation of Natural
Language Processing (AFNLP), COLING Committee (ICCL), European
Data Forum, European Language Resources Association (ELRA),
International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT),
International Committee for the Coordination & Standardisation
of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA),
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Linguistic
Data Consortium (LDC), Oriental COCOSDA, Language Resource
Management Agency (RMA)</p>
<p>To find out more about NLP12, please read the <a
href="http://www.elra.info/NLP12-Paris-Declaration.html">NLP12
Paris Declaration</a>.<br>
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