Laboratori de Tecnologies Lingüístiques, LATEL / Networks and associations

Research and academic networks

• RTHABLA (Red Temática Docente en “Tecnologías del Habla"). Network created in 2000 with the Programa de Cooperación Interuniversitaria of the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI). The objetive is to give the basic knowledge to develop systems for automatic voice recognition, text-to-voice conversion, and voice coders, profiling the state of the art, the trends and current and future applications in which these systems are developed.
• XALOC Network (Xarxa d'Anàlisi de la Llengua Oral Catalana)

Associations

• ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues). Internacional association devoted to the activities related to linguistic engineering. IULA is an institutional member.
• ELRA (European Language Resources Association). The mission of the Association is to promote language resources (henceforth LRs) and evaluation for the Human Language Technology (HLT) sector in all their forms and all their uses, in a European context. Consequently the goals are: to coordinate and carry out identification, production, validation, distribution, standardisation of LRs, as well as support for evaluation of systems, products, tools, etc. - related to language resources.