Organisation profile: Association des Professionnels des Industries de la Langue

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 APIL (Association des Professionnels des Industries de la Langue, i.e. the 
Association of Language Industry Professionals) is a non-profit association (by 
virtue of the French law of 1901 on charities) founded in July 2001. Its 
mandate is to represent actors in the field of Language Technology, and to help 
them develop their business and expertise at the national and international 
level. It addresses both individuals (general members of the association), and 
organizations (as sponsors). 


As a professional organization, APIL brings together industrial skills and 
efforts in order to advocate common interests and to deliver an 
industry-specific message in various contexts. 


APIL promotes cooperative action related to language industry. Lines of actions 
are organized around several themes: communication, promotion, job, 
intelligence, training, and surveys. 


For your information, these are some current initiatives of APIL: 

communication 
directory of the language industry 
participation in the Technolangue.net project (a Web portal on the language 
industry) 
bulletin
promotion 
booth at professional exhibitions (GEIDE, i-expo, LangTech) 
joint working group with GFII (GRIII) 
conferences (i-expo 2003)
employment 
partnership with APEC (institutional association for the employment of managers 
and high-level specialists) 
diffusion of job offers to APIL members 
job descriptions 
conferences (METIL 2002, with the French NLP research association ATALA)
intelligence 
technology /strategy /business intelligence 
press watch 
subscription to specialized bulletins 
surveys 
internal (surveying the members themselves) 
external (market studies performed upon members’ requests). 

APIL provides its members a wide range of exclusive services: job offers, 
conference announcements, subscription to professional exhibitions, 
intelligence, and surveys. These services are available on the “radio 
APIL” mailing list, which is diffused exclusively to APIL members and 
sponsors. 


As an individual wishing to join APIL, you shall find all the relevant 
information at http://www.apil.asso.fr/adhesion.htm. 

As an organization wishing to sponsor APIL, you shall find all the related 
information at: http://www.apil.asso.fr/mecenat.htm.