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ELSNET and Europe

ELSNET and Europe. What is ELSNET What is happening in Europe Steven Krauwer. 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

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ELSNET and Europe

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  1. ELSNET and Europe What is ELSNET What is happening in Europe Steven Krauwer Europe

  2. 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 Europe

  3. How does it work? • Roadmapping • Building competence • Information dissemination • Transfer of knowledge • Evaluation • Resources • Standards Europe

  4. 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 Europe

  5. Infrastructures in Europe Europe

  6. 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) Europe

  7. 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) Europe

  8. 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) Europe

  9. 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 Europe

  10. 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) Europe

  11. Contact info • ELSNET • Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS • Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, NL • Email: elsnet@elsnet.org • Phone: +31 30 253 6039 • Fax: +31 30 253 6000 • WWW: www.elsnet.org Europe

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