Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Language Resources and Language Technology Evaluation within Human Language Technologies

The ELRA Board has created a prize to honour the memory of its first president, professor Antonio Zampolli, a pioneer and visionary scientist who was internationally recognized in the field of computational linguistics and Human Language Technologies (HLT). He also contributed much through the establishment of ELRA and the LREC conference.

To reflect Antonio Zampolli’s specific interest in our field, the Prize will be awarded to individuals whose work lies within the areas of Language Resources and Language Technology Evaluation with acknowledged contributions to their advancements. The Antonio Zampolli Prize was awarded to:

• Fredrick Jelinek, from John Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA), at LREC 2004, in Lisbon. The presentation can be viewed here.

• Christiane Fellbaum and George A. Miller, from Princeton University, Princeton (USA), at LREC 2006, in Genoa. The presentation can be viewed here.

• Yorick Wilks, from the Oxford Internet Institute and the Computer Science Department of the University of Sheffield (UK), at LREC 2008, in Marrakech. The presentation can be viewed here.