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../ ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics
Coordination: ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics
Design/Purpose:   "The Association for Computational Linguistics is THE international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation."
Projects:   Journal Computational Linguistics
Newsletter:   no
Notes:   The ACL is host to a number of SIGs
   
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../ BAS - Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals
Coordination: University of Munich, presently at the Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation (IPSK)
Design/Purpose:   "The Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS) is a public institution hosted by the University of Munich. This institution was founded with the aim of making corpora of current spoken German available to both the basic research and the speech technology communities via a maximally comprehensive digital speech-signal database."
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../ CETH - Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
Coordination: Brian Hancock, Rutger University
Design/Purpose:   Production of eTexts in the Humanities
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../ CHILDES - Child Language Data Exchange System
Coordination: CHILDES, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.
Design/Purpose:   "The CHILDES system provides tools for studying conversational interactions. These tools include a database of transcripts, programs for computer analysis of transcripts, methods for linguistic coding,and systems for linking transcripts to digitized audio and video."
Projects:  
Newsletter:   no, but see their Overview of the CHILDES system.
Notes:   "The data, programs, and manuals are freely accessible over the net and can also be obtained on CD-ROM"
   
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../ CLG@Oxford
Coordination: University of Oxford
Design/Purpose:   " The Computational Linguistics Group at Oxford University consists of faculty members, researchers and students working on the scientific study of language from a computational perspective. We develop computational models of various linguistic phenomena, often with the aim of building practical natural language processing systems."
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../ Collins Cobuild
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../ DRC (Dictionary Research Centre) Birmingham
Coordination: Department of English, University of Birmingham
Design/Purpose:   " The Dictionary Research Centre is an umbrella for lexicographical activities and interests within the Department of English. "
Projects:  
  • Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language
  • corpus-based lexicography
  • bilingual and multilingual lexicography
  • the lexicographical description of collocation
  • the language of definitions
  • perceptions of dictionaries
  • metaphor and dictionaries
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../ DRC (Dictionary Research Centre) Macquarie
Coordination: Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University. Director: Associate Professor Pam Peters
Design/Purpose:   "[The DRC] promotes systematic research in lexicography, lexicology, Australian English and English usage in general."
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Notes:   View recent annual reports
   
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../ ELRA - European Language Resources Association
Coordination: ELRA, Luxembourg
Design/Purpose:   "The overall goal of ELRA is to provide a centralized organization for the validation, management, and distribution of speech, text, and terminology resources and tools, and to promote their use within the European telematics R&TD community"
Projects:   European Language resources - Distribution Agency ( ELDA )
Newsletter:   read their Newsletter
Notes:   website available in English and in French
   
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../ ELSNET - European Language and Resource Network
Coordination: ELSNET office at Utrecht University, Netherlands
Design/Purpose:   Europe-based forum dedicated to human language technologies
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Newsletter:   visit their news-section; subscription to ElsNews is free
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