Corpora: TRACTOR language resource archive

From: John Sinclair (tractor@solaris3.ids-mannheim.de)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 15:42:54 MET

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    NOTICE TO ALL CORPUS LINGUISTS

    Today an important new resource becomes available to the
    community of corpus users.

    - Corpora in TWENTY languages
    - Parallel corpora in a variety of pairings
    - Software for processing corpus evidence
    - lexicons and other language-information resources

    This is TRACTOR - and this is only the start!

            www.tractor.de
            www.tractor.de
            www.tractor.de

    The TRACTOR Network is launched on the 17th January 2000.
    It is supported by grants from the European Commission.

    You are invited to take a look at the archive,
    and if you are interested, to join the TRACTOR User Community.

    What is TRACTOR?

    TRACTOR is the T ELRI (see below)
                            R esearch
                            A rchive of
                            C omputational
                            T ools and
                            R esources.

    It features monolingual and multilingual corpora and lexicons
    in a wide variety of languages, currently including

    Bulgarian
            Czech
                    Dutch
                            English
                                    Estonian
                                            French
                                                    German
    Hungarian
            Italian
                    Latvian
                            Lithuanian
                                    Norwegian
                                            Rumanian
                                                    Russian
    Serbian
            Slovenian
                    Spanish
                            Swedish
                                    Turkish
                                            Uzbek

    The archive, network and user community are a key part of the TELRI
    agenda to build links between the research communities in Western,
    Central and Eastern Europe.

    What it TELRI?

    TELRI is the T rans-
                            E uropean
                            L anguage
                            R esource
                            I nfrastructure

    Starting in 1996, TELRI has brought together a large and expert group of
    scholars working in the field of language resources; it holds an annual
    seminar, publishes newsletters etc.

            www.telri.de
            www.telri.de
            www.telri.de

    TRACTOR has already amassed an impressive collection of data;
    it aims to continue building up a large variety of corpus- and
    lexicon-related software such as parsers, taggers, morphological
    analyzers, corpus retrieval tools, concordancers and the like. All these
    will be at the service of the world-wide community of users.

    HOW TO USE TRACTOR

    In order to download resources from the archive, you need to become a
    member of the TRACTOR User Community (TUC).

    For those who deposit resources with TRACTOR, access to the entire
    collection is free. For others there is a small fee to establish
    membership formally, so that the use of the archive can be controlled
    and monitored in order to protect the intellectual property rights of
    the resource providers.

    FEES: Individuals and academic, public, or industrial organizations:
    a nominal annual fee of 50 EURO (Western European members) or 20 EURO (rest of
    Europe). Comparable conditions apply for members from outside Europe.

    Members can download and use the resources for research purposes
    without further charges. Users wishing to exploit the resources
    commercially will be referred to the owners of the resources in order
    to negotiate permission with them.

    For all enquiries please email: helpdesk@tractor.de.

    REMEMBER the TRACTOR address:

            www.tractor.de
            www.tractor.de
            www.tractor.de

    John Sinclair
    ____________________________

    NORMALLY AT:

    The Tuscan Word Centre Vellano 409 51010 Pescia (PT) Italia

    Telephone: +39 0572 409251 Fax: 409253 Office: 409900

    IF ANY PROBLEM WITH THESE NUMBERS PLEASE TRY:

    +39 0832 631319 (phone and fax) or +39 0832 261542

    web page <www.twc.it>



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