WRITE Committee

The WRITE (Written Resources Infrastructure, Technology and Evaluation) Committee is the natural evolution of the ICCWLRE (International Coordination Committee for Written Language Resources and Evaluation), born from an idea of Antonio Zampolli and officially launched during the ENABLER/ELSNET Workshop "International Roadmap for Language Resources" (Paris, 28^th-29^th August 2003).

The new name of the organization was proposed and agreed on unanimously during the Joint COCOSDA/ICCWLRE Meeting "Building the Language Resources and Evaluation Roadmap" at LREC 2004 (Lisbon, 30^th May 2004).

The organization provides an international forum to encourage and support international coordination and cooperation in the field of written language resources and technology assessment methodologies.

The main objectives of the organization are:

to provide a formal liaison between research and development communities, national professional organizations, national and international standards organizations and funding bodies and to promote integration and progress in written language resources, standardization, application in human language technology and guidelines for intellectual property protection for information and data exchange;

to become an authoritative source of knowledge about international standards for written language resources and to provide a forum for a national and international debate about standards in these areas;

to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge about written language resources and technology assessment and to promote international information exchange via electronic and print media and the organization of meetings and workshops;

to promote coordination among the communities of written, spoken and multimodal language resource developers and users and to foster new synergies among these communities through the organization of joint events and initiatives.

Web Masters: Paola Baroni & Michele Mammini - Last update: 06/08/2004 (16:00)