Beta Testing Week set up from 12 to 16 of November

The community has been receptive to PANACEA and has shown an interest in its offer from different perspectives: the data derived, the web-service principle and the full language resource production chain in such a user-friendly manner. As expected, users belonging to the research community show a clearer disposition to collaboration given their adventurous nature to try, test and learn. Nevertheless, the industrial audience is also interested, even if expecting something more advanced and developed, not just a prototype. Cost, investment and benefit are crucial concepts for them and they are more reluctant when in front of a non-final pre-market product.

Aware of the relevance that our research entails for the Language Technology Industries, and the special interest shown by some professionals, PANACEA has made a beta version available as an integrated tool to assist professionals in the automation of LR production. For this purpose, we organised our beta-testing week, from 12th until 16th of November 2012. The goal of this beta testing exercise is that professionals use the platform for producing a resource they might need or be interested in, and give us feedback on their experience to help us evaluate the service.