Dutch Language Union

Abstract During the first years of my carreer in linguistics, the yearly GLOW-Colloquium was an important event and Dutch linguistics participated in this conference quite substantially. It symbolized the prominent position of theoretical, generative linguistics in the Netherlands in the last decades of the 20th century. The rise of theoretical linguistics cooccurred with my own carreer as a syntactician. In this contribution I compare my experiences of the early days of GLOW with the present state of theoretical linguistics in the Netherlands.

Abstract Through the New Skills for New Jobs initiative, the European Commission wants to (1) promote better anticipation of future skills needs, (2) develop better matching between skills and labour market needs and (3) bridge the gap between the worlds of education and work. With relatively little effort, the use of lingua receptiva can contribute significantly towards achieving these goals. Including it in the Skills Agenda as a “transversal skill” could:– enhance the key competence “Communicating in and learning a foreign language”;– refine the European Qualification Framework (EQF); and,– strengthen the Europass.This position paperThis position paper was published on 11 May 2016 at: http://taalunieversum.org/sites/tuv/files/downloads/Taalunie%20positionpaper%20luistertaal%20(Engels)-def.pdf#search=%22position+paper+lingua+%22. It was written by Jan D. ten Thije (Utrecht University), Charlotte Gooskens (University of Groningen), Frans Daems (University of Antwerp), Leonie Cornips (Maastricht University, Meertens Institute), Mieke Smits (Dutch Language Union). elaborates on the arguments for including Lingua Receptiva in these policy papers.

This chapter describes how the Dutch-Flemish Human Language Technology Agency (HLT Agency, TST-Centrale in Dutch) takes care of the STEVIN results, after completion of the projects. The HLT Agency is a central repository for mainly government-funded digital Dutch language resources (LRs). Details on how the HLT Agency acquires, manages, maintains and distributes the LRs developed within the STEVIN programme are provided. In addition, the role played by the HLT Agency in advising STEVIN projects on intellectual property rights (IPR) issues and in facilitating the LR transfer process is also described. Attention is then paid to the licensing, pricing and IPR policies, which are necessary to guarantee the sustainability and availability of LRs for research, education and commercial purposes. Thanks to STEVIN, the HLT Agency has become a linchpin of the Dutch-Flemish HLT community.