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The research areas of ISO/TC 37/SC 4 include computational linguistics, computerized lexicography, and language engineering. Language resources consist of contents represented by linguistic data in various formats (e.g., speech data, written text corpora, general language lexical corpora). Text corpora, lexica, ontologies and terminologies are typical instances of language resources to be used for language and knowledge engineering. In both monolingual and multilingual environments, language resources play a crucial role in preparing, processing and managing the information and knowledge needed by computers as well as humans. With a view to mobile computing and mobile content etc. the availability language resources, having to be considered as multilingual, multimedia and multimodal from the outset, will be one of the key success factors.