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The strategic impact of META-NET on the regional, national and international level

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This article provides an overview of the dissemination work carried out in META-NET from 2010 until 2015; we describe its impact on the regional, national and international level, mainly with regard to politics and the funding situation for LT topics. The article documents the initiative’s work throughout Europe in order to boost progress and innovation in our field.

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  1. http://www.meta-net.eu.

  2. http://www.meta-net.eu/whitepapers.

  3. http://www.meta-net.eu/sra.

  4. http://www.lr-coordination.eu.

  5. The EC’s decision to exclude French and Spanish (as well as English) in the 21 European languages being considered for translation in ICT-17 caused a certain level of criticism in the respective countries. Although these three languages have good (English) and moderate (Spanish, French) support, according to the White Paper Series, they deserve attention, both as source or target languages, for the other ones.

  6. http://www.multilingualeurope.eu.

  7. http://www.cracker-project.eu.

  8. http://www.qt21.eu.

  9. The SRIA is available on the websites of META-FORUM 2015 and CRACKER, among others (Rehm 2015).

  10. http://rigasummit2015.eu.

  11. http://www.cracking-the-language-barrier.eu.

  12. http://www.meta-share.eu.

  13. http://www.meta-net.eu/whitepapers.

  14. http://www.meta-net.eu/sra.

  15. http://www.cracker-project.eu.

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The first phase of the META-NET initiative was co-funded by FP7 and the ICT-PSP programme of the European Commission through the contracts T4ME (grant agreement no. 249 119), CESAR (no. 271 022), METANET4U (no. 270 893) and META-NORD (no. 270 899). CRACKER has received funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (no. 645 357).

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This paper was originally published at LREC 2014. This version has been extended and updated. The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their helpful comments.

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Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H., Ananiadou, S. et al. The strategic impact of META-NET on the regional, national and international level. Lang Resources & Evaluation 50, 351–374 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-015-9333-4

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