Joint research coordination and programming for HLT for Dutch in the Low Countries

The STEVIN Programme: Result of 5 Years Cross-border HLT for Dutch Policy Preparation

“…15 The comparison showed that STEVIN is quite unique in its crossborder co-operation (including cross-border funding). STEVIN can be seen as a precursor of the "joint programming" approach of the EC [20]. Its comprehensive approach (ranging from strategic research to demonstrator projects and sensitisation and promotional activities) and the involvement of various ministries and agencies at both sides of the border was rather rare.…”

“…10, p. 165) project could be released as open source to be included in the Dutch "language pack" for Firefox, OpenOffice and Chrome distributed by the OpenTaal organisation. 20 For companies interested in using the Autonomata grapheme-tophoneme converter, a royalty scheme was set up.…”