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Hong Kong, 7 October 2000
Europe
ELSNET and Europe
What is ELSNET
What is happening in Europe
Steven Krauwer
Hong Kong, 7 October 2000
Europe
What is ELSNET?
• European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies (funded by EU’s HLT programme)
• Unites key players in the field: some 50 industrial and 85 academic institutions from all over Europe
• Aims at facilitating R&D by sharing knowledge and expertise
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How does it work?
• Roadmapping• Building competence• Information dissemination• Transfer of knowledge• Evaluation• Resources• Standards
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Why interested in Asia?
• Mostly for selfish reasons (from the EU point of view):– considerable IT activity and competence in
Asia, so teaming up will strengthen our position– expansion of markets for European industry
(IT, e-commerce, e-content) necessitates crossing the language boundaries
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Infrastructures in Europe
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Europe (1)
• National level:– national science foundations (or their
equivalents)– national nlp, speech and corpus programmes– local professional organisations or platforms
• Language level:– Francophone community (also outside Europe)– Dutch Language Union (Belgium &
Netherlands)
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Europe (2)
• International (some fully bottom-up, others set up with EU funding):– ISCA (cf. Julia Hirschberg’s talk)– EACL (cf. Wolfgang Wahlster’s talk)– ELRA (cf. Antonio Zampolli’s talk)– TELRI (language resources, mostly Eastern
European)
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Europe (3)
• European Union:• various IT programmes• typically project based• always international, open to
– EU members (15 member countries)– new membership applicants (e.g. Poland)– specific developing countries– associated countries (e.g. Switzerland, Israel),
provided they bring their own funding– countries with special agreements (US)
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Europe (4)
• EU’s Human Language Technologies programme (annual budget ca 35 Meuro):
• R&D projects on spoken and written language– Human-computer interaction– Inter-personal communication– Information access and management
• Support actions
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Europe (5)
• Support actions (also outside HLT):– networks of excellence (e.g. ELSNET, I3Net)– research networks (travel funds for co-operative
projects)– training networks– conference support– expert groups on standards and evaluation (e.g.
EAGLES, ISLE)
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Contact info
ELSNET Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, NL
Email: [email protected] Phone: +31 30 253 6039 Fax: +31 30 253 6000 WWW: www.elsnet.org