ELRI - E uropean Language Resources Infrastructure (2018)

Abstract: We describe the European Language Resources Infrastructure project, whose main aim is the provision of an infrastructure to help collect, prepare and share language resources that can in turn improve translation services in Europe.

## description the european language resources infrastructure (elri) project is an initiative co-funded by the european union under the connecting europe facility programme, under grant agreement inea/cef/ict/a2016/1330962. elri has a duration of 24 months and started in october 2017. ## objectives the main objective of elri is the provision of an infrastructure to help collect, prepare and share language resources that can in turn improve translation services. in particular, resources shared with the dgt will contribute to improve the eu automated translation services that are freely available to all public institutions. the initiative notably addresses current issues related to sharing resources directly at the european level or beyond, by providing national relay stations where resources remain under member states' laws and regulations until further clearance is negotiated and granted. elri targets resources that are relevant to digital service infrastructures and currently involves c 2018 the authors. this article is licensed under a creative commons 3.0 licence, no derivative works, attribution, cc-by-nd. public institutions and public translation centres in france, ireland, portugal and spain, with a future extension to additional member states as a key objective beyond the current action. ## acknowledgements co-financed by the european union connecting europe facility the sole responsibility of this publication lies with the author. the european union is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.