Proceedings of the Special Day
Special Day
on pan-European Co-operation and Technology Transfer
Zakopane, Poland, 28 August 1996
Abstract. The European Network in Language and Speech,
ELSNET, is an Esprit funded network in the field of Language and
Speech technology. It started out as a Western-European
network. On the basis of funding from ESPRIT, COPERNICUS, LRE
and INTAS, ELSNET has started a process of changing into a Pan-European
network. In 1994 ELSNET carried out a survey of organisations
in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States
of the former Soviet Union (CEENIS), that are involved in the
Language and Speech technology. On the basis of the findings of
this survey, the network formulated a number of projects to experiment
with formats for cooperation with CEENIS. One of these projects
is the COPERNICUS funded project ELSNET goes East. In this paper,
we shortly explain the term Language and Speech Technology, we
describe ELSNET and the findings from the ELSNET survey; we discuss
the ongoing and future activities of the project ELSNET goes East,
and we end with a conclusion1 .