International cooperation and dissemination

EAGLES has established links with other international initiatives whose aims and orientations are similar or closely connected to EAGLES, such as

• The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), promoted by the three major professional associations in natural language processing (ACL, ALLC and Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH));
• ELRA, which will make use of EAGLES recommendations and proposals for its validation actions.

A cooperative effort with the NSF has produced an international survey of the state-of-the-art in speech and natural language processing R&D, which is under publication (Cole et al., 1996) and already accessible on the Web.

The European Network of Centres of Excellence in Speech and Language (ELSNET) has been entrusted by the management board with the provision of dissemination facilities to EAGLES. The regularly appearing newssheet of ELSNET, ELSNews, carries mini-reports of EAGLES activities and plans.