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Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych is an invited speaker at the FLaReNet Launching Event (web site: http://www.flarenet.eu/) during the plenary session called  "Automatic and Innovative Means of Acquisition, Annotating, Indexing" (web site http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=Vienna09_Session2), an open Forum which will take place in Vienna on 12-13 February 2009. The title of this invited talk is ‘Exploiting Crowdsourced Language Resources for Natural Language Processing: “Wikabularies” and the Like’.

FLaReNet (Fostering Language Resources Network) is an eContentPlus project funded by the European Commission which officially started on 1st September 2008. This Network is intended to promote the consolidation of a European strategy in the field of Language Resources (LR) and Language Technologies and to be a European forum to facilitate interaction among LR stakeholders.

The FLaReNet event is a collaborative forum composed of a series of working sessions on specific topics. Its aim is to raise discussion in a very interactive way, thus creating a breeding ground for open questions, new ideas and visions for the field towards a multilingual digital Europe.