[Corpora-List] PR: ELRA receives the META Prize at the META-FORUM 2011 in Budapest

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Press Release - Immediate
Paris, France, July 18, 2011

*ELRA receives the META Prize at the META-FORUM 2011 in Budapest*


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.


*** About ELRA ***
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.
To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site: http://www.elra.info


*** About Meta ***
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.
To find out more about META, please visit the web site: 
http://www.meta-net.eu

Contact : Helene Mazo, mazo at elda.org
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