ELRA Activities and Services

ELRA Activities and Services Khalid Choukri, Valérie Mapelli, Hélène Mazo, Vladimir Popescu ELDA/ELRA 9 rue des Cordelières, 75013 Paris, France Email: {choukri; mapelli; mazo; popescu}@elda.org Abstract After celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2015, ELRA is carrying on its strong involvement in the HLT field. To share ELRA’s expertise of those 21 past years, this article begins with a presentation of ELRA’s strategic Data and LR Management Plan for a wide use by the language communities. Then, we further report on ELRA’s activities and services provided since LREC 2014. When looking at the cataloguing and licensing activities, we can see that ELRA has been active at making the Meta-Share repository move toward new developments steps, supporting Europe to obtain accurate LRs within the Connecting Europe Facility programme, promoting the use of LR citation, creating the ELRA License Wizard web portal. The article further elaborates on the recent LR production activities of various written, speech and video resources, commissioned by public and private customers. In parallel, ELDA has also worked on several EU-funded projects centred on strategic issues related to the European Digital Single Market. The last part gives an overview of the latest dissemination activities, with a special focus on the celebration of its 20th anniversary organised in Dubrovnik (Croatia) and the following up of LREC, as well as the launching of the new ELRA portal. Keywords: Data Management Plan, Cataloguing, Licensing, LR Citation, LR Production, Events 1. Introduction In 2015, ELRA celebrated its 20th anniversary. This was the right moment to take a look back and consider ELRA’s achievements. From these achievements, we could gather a number of skills that merit to be shared. Thus, this article begins with a presentation of ELRA’s strategic Data and Language Resource (LR) Management Plan for a wide use by the language communities. Always following the current trends on adapted ways of cataloguing and licensing LRs, ELRA has been active at making the Meta-Share repository move toward new developments steps, supporting Europe to obtain accurate LRs within the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme, promoting the use of LR citation, creating the ELRA License Wizard web portal dedicated to legal issues. These works are presented in the following sections. During the last two years, we have also produced (or participated in the production of) written, speech and video resources, commissioned by public and private customers. In parallel, ELRA (through the ELDA agency) has also worked on several EU-funded projects centred on Machine Translation in eCommerce, and on maintaining the Meta- Share repository. The last part gives an overview of the latest events and dissemination activities, with a special focus on the celebration of its 20th anniversary organised in Dubrovnik (Croatia) and the following up of LREC. More is also said on the developments that were carried out to finally launch a newly designed ELRA portal. 2. Data Management Plan Data Management is one of ELRA’s key activities which encompasses LRs discovery and integration to its LRs Catalogue, LRs production, and IPR issues clearance prior to …

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