{{short description|Biannual event on natural language processing}} {{Multiple issues| {{COI|date=February 2017}} {{Notability|date=December 2025}} }} {{Infobox company | name = LREC | type = Conference | key_people = Nicoletta Calzolari, Conference Chair | homepage ={{URL|www.lrec-conf.org}} }} The '''International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation''' is an international conference organised by the ELRA Language Resources Association every other year (on even years) with the support of institutions and organisations involved in Natural language processing. The series of LREC conferences was launched in Granada in 1998.
== History of conferences == The survey of the LREC conferences over the period 1998-2013 was presented during the 2014 conference <ref>[http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2014 LREC 2014]</ref> in Reykjavik as a closing session.<ref>Joseph Mariani; Patrick Paroubek; Gil Francopoulo; Olivier Hamon 2014. Rediscovering 15 Years of Discoveries in Language Resources and Evaluation: The LREC Anthology Analysis. LREC-2014 [http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/1228_Paper.pdf]</ref> It appears that the number of papers and signatures is increasing over time.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} The average number of authors per paper is higher as well. The percentage of new authors is between 68% and 78%.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} The distribution between male (65%) and female (35%) authors is stable over time. The most frequent technical term is "annotation", then comes "part-of-speech".
== The LRE Map == The LRE Map was introduced at LREC 2010 and is now a regular feature of the LREC submission process for both the conference papers and the workshop papers. At the submission stage, the authors are asked to provide some basic information about all the resources (in a broad sense, i.e. including tools, standards and evaluation packages), either used or created, described in their papers. All these descriptors are then gathered in a global matrix called the LRE Map.<ref>[http://www.resourcebook.eu/ LRE Map]</ref> This feature has been extended to several other conferences.
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== External links == * [http://www.lrec-conf.org/ Conference website] * [http://www.elra.info/ European Language Resources Association web site]
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