Press Release – 2010 ELRA membership

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*Press Release – 2010 ELRA membership

Join ELRA
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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 house for 
language resources and promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT).

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, 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 and 
standardisation.

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 of the 
LREC conference (see information on LREC 2010 below).

2010 ELRA membership is open to all institutions wishing to benefit from 
ELRA services (see further below). To join, please fill in the online 
membership form here:
http://www.elra.info/scripts/adhform.php

*Major ELRA event this year: LREC2010*

Among a large variety of activities forecast this year, ELRA will be 
happy to welcome participants to the 7th edition of LREC (Language 
Resources and Evaluation Conference).
The event will take place at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in 
Valetta (Malta), on May 17-23, 2010.

The conference web site can be accessed from: 
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010.
All the information related to the conference will be available from 
this web site and updated on a regular basis.

For any question on the conference, please contact: lrec at lrec-conf.org

*Members’ Benefits*

By joining us and becoming an ELRA member, you will benefit from:
-    Price discounts on the resources, up to 70% reduction on some 
items. In addition, discounts on related technical publications, 
commercial reports, etc.
-    Information on other databases available or databases being developed.
-    Legal and contractual assistance. This could be when you are 
negotiating for a resource with a producer or if you need information on 
other contractual or legal matters.
-    Various publications: Special News and Updates on association 
affairs are issued via e-mail in the monthly Members Bulletin. The ELRA 
Web site features a section for members only, where internal reports and 
statistics can be found.
-    First-hand information on the results from the ELRA studies.
-    Discount of LREC registration fees
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*Find out more about ELRA by visiting our web site: http://www.elra.info*

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