Paris, France, July 18, 2011

ELRA receives the META Prize at the META-FORUM 2011 in Budapest


During the META-FORUM 2011 which took place in Budapest (Hungary) on June 27-28, 2011, ELRA, a world-wide leading player providing Language Resources-related services to the HLT community, has received the META Prize for “Outstanding long-term commitment to the preparation and distribution of language resources and technologies”.  The Prize is shared with Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). The META-NET Prize is awarded by the META-NET Technology Council, a 30 members committee from HLT R&D and industry executives and managers.


*** About ELRA ***
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a world-wide leading player in language resource distribution, sharing and production. ELRA provides services to the language communities related to distribution and production of resources, including production on demand, technology evaluation and benchmarking. ELRA organizes LREC, the major international conference devoted to language resources and evaluation, with over 1,200 attendees from academia and industry. The next LREC edition will be held in Istanbul in 2012.
To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site: http://www.elra.info


*** About Meta ***
META, the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance brings together researchers, commercial technology providers, private and corporate language technology users, language professionals and other information society stakeholders.
To find out more about META, please visit the web site: http://www.meta-net.eu

Contact : Helene Mazo, mazo@elda.org