Year: 2010
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In the last decade, the Dutch Language Union has taken a serious interest in digital language resources and human language technologies (HLT), because they are crucial for a language to be able to survive in the information society.In this paper we report on the current state of the joint Flemish-Dutch efforts in the field of HLT for Dutch (HLTD) and how follow-up activities are being prepared.We explain the overall mechanism of evaluating an R&D programme and the role of evaluation in the policy cycle to establish new R&D funding activities.This is applied to the joint Flemish-Dutch STEVIN programme.Outcomes of the STEVIN scientific midterm review are shortly discussed as the overall final evaluation is currently still on-going.As part of preparing for future policy plans, an HLTD forecast is presented.Also new opportunities are outlined, in particular in the context of the European CLARIN infrastructure project that can lead to new avenues for joint Flemish-Dutch cooperation on HLTD.
Authors: Peter Spyns, Elisabeth D’Halleweyn
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W14767702