/Press Release – Immediate
Paris, France, October 20, 2017/
*ReTeLe & ELRA join forces*
*The European Language Resource Association (ELRA) is pleased to
announce its support for the Spanish Network of Excellence ReTeLe, the
Network of Resources for Language Technologies.*
ReTeLe aims at promoting all activities around language resources (LRs)
for the languages in Spain (Basque, Catalan, Galician and Spanish). This
network of excellence supports the production and availability of
multilingual language resources for language technology developers.
ReTeLe coordinates providers of LRs, identifies needs for covering the
languages in Spain and promotes the sharing of LRs as open linked data,
thus encouraging their re-usability.
ReTeLe contributes to the full deployment of language technology
applications. For that purpose, ReTeLe has collaborated with the Spanish
/Plan de Impulso de las Tecnologías del Lenguaje/ (Plan for the
Advancement of Language Technology
<http://www.agendadigital.gob.es/tecnologias-lenguaje/Bibliotecaimpulsotecnologiaslenguaje/Detalle%20del%20Plan/Plan-Advancement-Language-Technology.pdf>)
and the European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC)
(http://www.lr-coordination.eu/), an action whose objective is to
identify and collect language data from the public administration in the
EU Member States to fuel MT@EC, the Machine Translation developed by the
EC, and improve its performance.
Among the network’s different activities, there is also the support to
existing catalogues of language resources for the languages in Spain, as
well as their interoperability through the creation of a portal for
describing LRs (http://catalogo.retele.linkeddata.es/). This description
is done according to agreed metadata standards, which comprises the
recommendation of using the ISLRN (International Standard Language
Resource Number) for the identification of language resources. These
initiatives encourage LR providers to maximize the visibility of
language resources in a simple manner so as to support potential users
in their search for data. The metadata used will be available as linked
data and exportable to other European catalogues, such as that of
META-SHARE (http://metashare.elda.org/) and ELRC-SHARE
(https://elrc-share.ilsp.gr/).
ELRA, also involved in these initiatives, supports ReTeLe’s work and
engages in collaborations towards the dissemination of ReTeLe’s
activities. Through its long experience in the world of LRs and, in
particular, in their cataloging (http://catalog.elra.info/), ELRA can
provide guidance and help so as to achieve the objectives of the network.
*Founding Members*
ReTeLe is coordinated by Prof. Asunción Gómez Pérez, from the Ontology
Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and is financed by
the Ministry of Finances and Competitivity in Spain. The network
comprises 14 members coming from academic and research institutions in
Spain.
For further information on the ReTeLe network, please visit the
following website: http://retele.linkeddata.es/
Contact: http://retele.linkeddata.es/web/guest/contact
*About ELRA*
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a
non-profit-making organisation founded by the European Commission in
1995, with the mission of providing a clearing house for Language
Resources and promoting Human Language Technologies.
To find out more about ELRA, please visit the website:
http://www.elra.info <http://www.elra.info/>
Contact: i...@elda.org <mailto:i...@elda.org>
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