CALL for Proposals

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>From Jeff ALLEN <jeff at ELDA.FR>

ANNOUNCING CALL FOR PROPOSALS

ELRA 1999 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
ELRA COMMISSIONING PRODUCTION OF LANGUAGE RESOURCES

Full version of call of proposals is available at:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html

If you would like to receive a copy of the call for proposals by e-mail,
please contact Jeff ALLEN mailto:jeff at elda.fr

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8 February 1999

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) invites proposals for
the first of a series of calls for the (co-)production and packaging of
Language Resources (LRs), open to companies and academic organisations
that comply with eligibility conditions provided below.

ELRA is planning to commission the production, packaging and/or
customisation of speech and written LRs needed by the Language Engineering
(LE) community, and is inviting applications for production and/or
packaging/repackaging projects, which could be eligible for funding from
ELRA.  The purpose of the call is to ensure that necessary resources are
developed in an acceptable framework (in terms of time and legal
conditions) by the LE players. This call is targeted towards projects with
short time scales (projects lasting up to one year but preferably shorter)
and the size of the funding will be considerably small. The ELRA funding
is to be seen as effective and useful for producers being both tactical in
their aims for the targeted market, which means that they do know all
about the needs on the specific market, and strategic with regard to what
to produce in order to fulfil these needs.

In order to qualify for funding eligibility under the European Commission 4th
Programme, the institution(s) making the proposal must belong to one of the
European Union Member States, or be in Liechtenstein, Iceland or Norway.

It is preferred that proposals not exceed 100,000 ECU.  ELRA hopes to fund
several proposals.

Timetable of deadlines:
Announcement of the Call: 8 February 1999
Submission deadline for proposals: 19 March 1999
Notification of reception of proposals before 26 March 1999
Acceptance notifications and negotiations to start on the 5th April 1999

NOTE:  Only complete proposals will be reviewed. Should you have further
    questions,  please contact Jeff ALLEN at the ELDA/ELRA office for details
    before 1 March 1999.

Jeff ALLEN  c/o ELRA/ELDA
55 rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris  FRANCE
e-mail: <jeff at elda.fr>
Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33
Fax: (+33) 1 43 13 33 30
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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