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CLARA Training Course on HLT Evaluation

elra — 2013-03-27T13:21:20Z

As part of the CLARA Marie Curie Initial Training Network, ELDA and the University of Copenhagen have organized a four-day thematic training course on evaluation of Human Language Technologies on November 26-29 in Paris. The course was attended by 10 CLARA fellows and other researchers from the HLT field.
By introducing and describing some evaluation concepts (comparative evaluation versus competition, technology evaluation versus usage/usability evaluation), the course has provided both (…) - ELRA Evaluation Workshops

META-SHARE: Official Launch

elra — 2013-02-11T17:20:15Z

Developed within META-NET, META-SHARE is a distributed and networked set of repositories of language data and tools, documented with high-quality metadata, aggregated in a central inventory allowing for uniform search and access to resources.
META-SHARE was officially launched in Berlin on January 25, 2013, as part of the META-NET Network meeting. "Connect to our infrastructure and share" is the key message conveyed by Stelios Piperidis, ILSP Greece, during the launch ceremony. Khalid (…) - Partnerships

A new resource agency: Resource Management Agency (RMA) in South Africa

elra — 2013-02-08T16:01:03Z

ELRA is happy to convey the Press Release below on the creation of the new Resource Management Agency (RMA).
[; Read the 1st Newsletter.; ]
On November 28, 2012, the RMA was officially launched in Pretoria, South Africa.
Khalid Choukri, Secretary General of the European Language Resources Association, attended this event as an invited speaker. During his speech, after giving an extensive view on ELRA's activities, he elaborated on the potential cooperation and support-services for a (…) - Partnerships

EC launches "Licences for Europe"

elra — 2013-02-06T16:15:31Z

Plenary Kick-off Meeting and Working Group Sessions
Structured stakeholder dialogue "Licences for Europe"
4 February 2013, Brussels, Belgium
The "Licence for Europe" plenary kick-off meeting took place on 4 Febuary 2013 in Brussels (Belgium) and was introduced by Commissioners Michel Barnier (Internal Market and Services), Neelie Kroes (Digital Agenda) [click to read her speech] and Androulla Vassiliou (Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth). Working group sessions covering the 4 (…) - Licences for Europe

Free LRs - Set 2

elra — 2013-01-24T16:19:00Z

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Release of free LRs - Set 2
ELRA-E0003 TC-STAR 2005 Evaluation Package - ASR Spanish
This package includes the material used for the TC-STAR 2005 Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) first evaluation campaign for the Spanish language. It includes resources, protocols, scoring tools, results of the official campaign, etc., that were used or produced during the campaign. The aim of these evaluation packages is to enable external players to evaluate their own (…) - Free LRs

Panacea LRs

elra — 2013-01-22T15:43:15Z

The following Panacea Language Resources are available from the ELRA catalogue.
ELRA-W0057 PANACEA English-French and English-Greek parallel corpus acquired for Environment domain
This package consists of an English-French and English-Greek sentence-aligned parallel corpus from the Environment domain automatically acquired from the web during 2010 and 2011. It was acquired in the framework of the PANACEA project. Data and language pairs are split into training, test and (…) - Language Resources (LRs)

Free LRs - Set 1

elra — 2012-05-23T21:43:00Z

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Release of free LRs - Set 1
AURORA-CD0002 AURORA Project Database 2.0 - Evaluation Package
This database is intended for the evaluation of algorithms for front-end feature extraction algorithms in background noise but may also be used more widely by speech researchers to evaluate and compare the performance of noise robust speech recognition algorithms. AURORA-CD0004-01 AURORA Project Database - Aurora 4a - Evaluation Package
The Aurora 4a database is (…) - Free LRs

Download the End-User Agreement for Free LRs

elra — 2012-05-10T09:13:00Z

To obtain the list of free LRs, please download the End-User Agreement and follow the instructions given in the agreement. - Free LRs

LRE Forum by ELRA

elra — 2012-03-01T14:43:12Z

In today's rapidly changing landscape, collaborative works, sharing LRs and associated services, but also crowdsourcing have emerged as major trends within the LRT community. Within this context, ELRA thinks that identifying the members of this very broad community is critical to set up truly interactive exchanges/services and has decided to launch the Language Resources and Evaluation Forum.
What is the forum?
The forum is a large group of individuals which have to do with Language (…) - ELRA

LRE Map

elra — 2011-10-19T16:36:41Z

Initiated by ELRA and FlaReNet and introduced at LREC 2010, the LRE Map is a new mechanism intended to monitor the use and creation of language resources by collecting information on both existing and newly-created resources during the submission process. It is a collective enterprise of the LREC community, as a first step towards the creation of a very broad, community-built, Open Resource Infrastructure. It is meant to become an essential instrument to monitor the field and to identify (…) - Language Resources (LRs)