European Language Resource Coordination: Collecting Language Resources for Public Sector Multilingual Information Management
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)
Abstract
In order to help improve the quality, coverage and performance of automated translation solutions in the context of current and future Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) digital services, the European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) consortium was set up through a service contract operating under the European Commission’s CEF SMART 2014/1074 programme to initiate a number of actions to support the collection of Language Resources (LRs) within the public sector. The first action consisted in raising awareness in the public sector through the organisation of dedicated events: 2 conferences and 29 country-specific workshops to meet with national or regional/municipal governmental organisations, language competence centres, relevant European institutions and other potential holders of LRs from the public service administrations. In order to gather resources shared by the contributors, the ELRC-SHARE Repository was built up together with services to support the sharing of LRs, such as the ELRC Helpdesk and Intellectual property Rights (IPR) clearance support. All collected LRs should pass a validation process whose guidelines were developed within the project. The collected LRs cover all official EU languages, plus Icelandic and Norwegian.