Welcome to ELRA

Founded in 1995, ELRA, the ELRA Language Resources Association is a non-profit organisation whose main mission is to make Language Resources (LRs) for Human Language Technologies (HLT) available to the community at large.

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Latest News

The 2nd International Conference on Language Technologies for All (LT4All 2025), held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 24 to 26 February 2025, will focus on advancing humanism through language technologies. Organized by ELRA, SIGUL, and UNESCO, the event aims to empower communities by exploring the intersections of language, technology, and culture. The conference will highlight inclusivity, support under-resourced languages, and contribute to the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032), while celebrating the Silver Jubilee of International Mother Language Day.

SIGSDS is organizing the workshop IWSDS2025 in Bilbao (Spain) on May 27-30, 2025.

Three keynote speakers

  • KristiinaJokinen (Artificial Intelligence Research Center, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Björn W. Schuller (Imperial College London, UK / Technical University of Munich, Germany)
  • Roberto Pieraccini, Vice President, Chief Scientist, Head of AI at Uniphore, USA

The LDS vision by Philippe Gelin

In a recent interview published in the LDS Newsletter, Philippe Gelin, Head of Sector Multilingualism at DG/CONNECT (European Commission) provides perspectives on the current and future trends in the European language data market and the pivotal role that European Language Data space plays in its realisation.

For more on LDS, please visit the website.