ELRA News - Antonio Zampolli Prize

[Magali Jeanmaire]

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The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is pleased
to announce the establishment of the:

                 *** Antonio Zampolli Prize ***

         Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of
Language Resources and Language Technology Evaluation
                 within Human Language Technologies

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The ELRA Board had decided to create a prize to honour the memory of
its first president, Antonio Zampolli, a pioneer and visionary scientist who
was internationally recognized in the field of computational linguistics and
Human Language Technologies (HLT). He also contributed much through
the establishment of ELRA and the LREC conference.
To reflect Antonio Zampolli's specific interest in our field, the Prize will be
awarded to individuals whose work lies within the areas of Language Resources
and Language Technology Evaluation with acknowledged contributions to their
advancements.

The prize will be awarded for the first time in May 2004 at the LREC 2004
conference in Lisbon (24-30 May, 2004).
Completed nominations should be sent to the ELRA CEO and arrive by
29th March 2004.

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) was established as
a non-profit organisation in Luxembourg in February, 1995. ELRA is the driving
force that makes language resources available for language engineering R&D
and evaluation worldwide. In order to achieve this goal, ELRA activities
include
the identification, distribution, collection, validation, standardisation,
and promotion
of the production of language resources. ELRA also supports the
establishment of
infrastructures for HLT evaluation. Following in the steps of Antonio, ELRA
continues
to work to develop the field of language resources and language technology
evaluation.

For additional information about the Antonio Zampolli Prize and ELRA, we
invite you
to visit our web site, at ww.elra.info.

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