《語言資源與評價》是第一本專門從事語言資源的獲取、創建、注釋和使用的出版物，以及評價資源、技術和應用的方法。語言資源包括機器可讀形式的語言數據和描述，用于幫助和增強語言處理應用程序，如書面或口頭語料庫和詞典、多模式資源、語法、術語或特定領域的數據庫和詞典、本體、多媒體數據庫等，以及用于獲取、準備、注釋、管理、定制和使用的基本軟件工具。語言資源評估涉及評估給定技術的最新水平、比較給定問題的不同方法、評估給定應用程序的資源和技術的可用性、基準測試以及評估系統可用性和用戶滿意度。

Language Resources and Evaluation is the first publication devoted to the acquisition, creation, annotation, and use of language resources, together with methods for evaluation of resources, technologies, and applications.Language resources include language data and descriptions in machine readable form used to assist and augment language processing applications, such as written or spoken corpora and lexica, multimodal resources, grammars, terminology or domain specific databases and dictionaries, ontologies, multimedia databases, etc., as well as basic software tools for their acquisition, preparation, annotation, management, customization, and use.Evaluation of language resources concerns assessing the state-of-the-art for a given technology, comparing different approaches to a given problem, assessing the availability of resources and technologies for a given application, benchmarking, and assessing system usability and user satisfaction.