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EAGLES results now available
The Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards (EAGLES)
is pleased to announce that results of the first phase of the EAGLES
initiative are now available on the EAGLES WWW server at:
http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES96/home.html
EAGLES (LRE-61-100) is an initiative of the European Commission which
aims to accelerate the provision of standards for:
- Very large-scale language resources (such as text corpora,
computational lexicons and speech corpora);
- Means of manipulating such knowledge, via computational
linguistic formalisms, mark up languages and various software tools;
- Means of assessing and evaluating resources, tools and products.
Numerous well-known companies, research centres, universities and
professional bodies across the European Union are collaborating under
the aegis of EC DGXIII to produce the EAGLES Guidelines which set out
recommendations for de facto standards and for good practice in the
above areas of language engineering. Some 200 individuals are
involved.
The EAGLES initiative is coordinated by Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, Pisa,
Italy which also manages the EAGLES WWW server.
The work towards guidelines was carried out by five Working Groups:
- Text Corpora
- Grammar Formalisms
- Evaluation
- Computational Lexicons
- Spoken Language
As we are still in the process of converting documents for mounting on
the Web, certain links may be inactive. At present, we beg the
reader's indulgence: our primary concern is to make material available
as early as possible, even if in draft or unrevised form. As revised
and more densely linked material becomes available, announcements will
be made via the home page and status information will be updated.
Thus, it is appropriate to re-visit the EAGLES Web site at regular
intervals.
Indeed, a further major concern is to receive feedback from the wider
community on the contents of the EAGLES Guidelines, thus the reader is
actively encouraged to contribute through constructive criticism.
Details of the feedback mechanism are also available from the home
page.
The EAGLES editorial board and coordinator would like to take this
opportunity to thank the many people who have been involved in this
enterprise. We trust that the material offered here, being the result
of the best efforts of many people, will prove of use in providing
guidelines for best practice in our field.