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| Title | Flemish-Dutch HLT Policy: Evolving to New Forms of Collaboration |
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| Authors | Peter Spyns and Elisabeth D'Halleweyn |
| Abstract | In the last decade, the Dutch Language Union has taken a serious interest indigital language resources and human language technologies (HLT), because theyare crucial for a language to be able to survive in the information society. Inthis paper we report on the current state of the joint Flemish-Dutch efforts inthe field of HLT for Dutch (HLTD) and how follow-up activities are beingprepared. We explain the overall mechanism of evaluating an R&D programme andthe role of evaluation in the policy cycle to establish new R&D fundingactivities. This is applied to the joint Flemish-Dutch STEVIN programme.Outcomes of the STEVIN scientific midterm review are shortly discussed as theoverall final evaluation is currently still on-going. As part of preparing forfuture policy plans, an HLTD forecast is presented. Also new opportunities areoutlined, in particular in the context of the European CLARIN infrastructureproject that can lead to new avenues for joint Flemish-Dutch cooperation onHLTD. |
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| Topics | LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues, Other |
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Flemish-Dutch HLT Policy: Evolving to New Forms of Collaboration |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{SPYNS10.707, author = {Peter Spyns and Elisabeth D'Halleweyn}, title = {Flemish-Dutch HLT Policy: Evolving to New Forms of Collaboration}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |