ELRI - European Language Resources Infrastructure

ELRI European Language Resource Infrastructure Thierry Etchegoyhen,1 Borja Anza Porras,1 Andoni Azpeitia,1 Eva Mart´ınez Garcia,1 Paulo Vale,2 Jos´e Luis Fonseca,2 Teresa Lynn,3 Jane Dunne,3 Federico Gaspari,3 Andy Way,3 Victoria Arranz,4 Khalid Choukri,4 Vladimir Popescu,4 Pedro Neiva,5 Rui Neto,5 Maite Melero,6 David Perez,6 Ant´onio Branco,7 Ruben Branco,7 Lu´ıs Gomes7 1 Vicomtech, Spain - {tetchegoyhen, banza, aazpeitia}@vicomtech.org 2 AMA, Portugal - {paulo.vale, jose.fonseca}@ama.pt 3 DCU, Ireland - {teresa.lynn, jane.dunne, federico.gaspari, andy.way}@adaptcentre.ie 4 ELDA, France - {arranz, choukri, vladimir}@elda.org 5 Linkare, Portugal - {pneiva, rneto}@linkare.com 6 SESIAD, Spain - maite.melero@upf.edu, dperezf@minetad.es 7 University of Lisboa, Portugal - {antonio.branco, ruben.branco, luis.gomes}@di.fc.ul.pt Abstract We describe the European Language Re- sources Infrastructure project, whose main aim is the provision of an infrastructure to help collect, prepare and share language resources that can in turn improve transla- tion services in Europe. 1 Description The European Language Resources Infrastruc- ture (ELRI) project is an initiative co-funded by the European Union under the Connecting Eu- rope Facility programme, under Grant Agreement INEA/CEF/ICT/A2016/1330962. ELRI has a du- ration of 24 months and started in October 2017. 2 Objectives The main objective of ELRI is the provision of an infrastructure to help collect, prepare and share language resources that can in turn improve trans- lation services. In particular, resources shared with the DGT will contribute to improve the EU auto- mated translation services that are freely available to all public institutions. The initiative notably addresses current issues related to sharing resources directly at the Euro- pean level or beyond, by providing National Re- lay Stations where resources remain under member states’ laws and regulations until further clearance is negotiated and granted. ELRI targets resources that are relevant to Dig- ital Service Infrastructures and currently involves c⃝ 2018 The authors. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 licence, no derivative works, attribution, CC- BY-ND. public institutions and public translation centres in France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, with a future extension to additional member states as a key ob- jective beyond the current action. 3 Benefits ELRI provides the following main benefits: • The provision of separate data sharing lay- ers at the national, European, and community levels, ensures compliance with the relevant sharing restrictions at every step. • Raw language resources are converted auto- matically into a format useful for translation experts and machine translation systems. • ELRI provides broad compliance verifica- tion covering intellectual property rights, the Public Sector Information directive and DSI- specific needs. • Language resources can be shared as deemed appropriate by stakeholders. • Registered users of the national relay stations can benefit from the automatically created translation memories. • The European Union’s eTranslation services will benefit from the collected and prepared language resources that have been authorised for sharing at the European level. 4 Acknowledgements Co-financed by the European Union Connecting Europe Facility The sole responsibility of this publication lies with the author. The European Union is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. P´erez-Ortiz, S´anchez-Mart´ınez, Espl`a-Gomis, Popovi´c, …

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