GENERAL OBJECTIVES
The
Written Resources Infrastructure, Technology and Evaluation
(WRITE) Committee 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 this organization are:
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to
provide a formal liaison between the research and development
communities, national professional organisations, national
and international standards organisations and funding
bodies, and to promote integration and progress in written
language resources, standardisation, application in HLT,
guidelines for intellectual property protection for information
and data exchange;
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to become the authoritative source of knowledge about
international standards for written language resources,
and to provide a forum for national and international
debate about standards in these areas;
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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 organisation of meetings and workshops;
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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.
ORGANIZATION
The
WRITE Committee is organized along two dimensions:
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regional
domains;
-
topic
domains.
The
WRITE Committee is constituted of a Coordination Group (CG)
and an Advisory Board (AB).
Special
purpose working groups may be set up as required.
The
CG is organized as follows:
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Officers:
the Convenor, the Deputy Convenor and the Secretary;
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Regional
Domain Rapporteurs;
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Topic
Domain Rapporteurs;
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Data
Center representatives.
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elects
its Officers, by a majority of vote of its members;
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selects
the regional and topic domains, and invites experts to
act as rapporteurs for these;
-
invites
eminent scholars in the field to become members of the
AB;
-
organizes
the means to communicate information about the work of
the WRITE Committee to all interested parties and attempts
to ensure broad-based membership from all regions;
-
organizes
the annual meeting of the WRITE Committee;
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invites
participants to attend Working Groups or special interest
groups as required.
Each
domain is organized by a rapporteur, whose responsibilities
include organizing presentations or sessions in the WRITE
Committee Workshops.
The
starting regions are: Europe, Asia, Africa, America and
Oceania.
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