Welcome to Bergen and the second national language technology conference! The first "Language technology in Norwegian" conference took place in 1998 at Lysebu, near Oslo, and it's now high time for a new conference. Much has happened in the field of language technology over the last four years, and where the 1998 conference focused on the general future of language technology in Norway, we have this time chosen to focus on the "Norwegian language bank"; the planned national corpus for language technology. The background for the conference is the report on the collection and accessibility of Norwegian language technology resources (only in Norwegian), which has been commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs and the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and coordinated by the Norwegian Language Council. The first day of the conference will therefore concentrate on the practical aspects of the establishment of a language bank, including presentations of work on national corpora in other countries. On the second day, the focus will be on presentations by producers and users of language data, and on project presentations, both by Norwegian and foreign speakers, which reflect the usefulness of the kind of corpus resources a language bank contains.

Last updated October 10th, 2002
by Kristin Bech.

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