ELRA’s missions are to promote language resources for the Human Language Technology (HLT) sector, and to evaluate language engineering technologies. To achieve these two major missions, we offer a range of services, listed below and described in the "Services around Language Resources" section:

 Identification of language resources
 Promotion of the production of language resources
 Production of language resources
 Validation of language resources
 Evaluation of systems, products, tools, etc., related to language resources
 Distribution of language resources
 Standardisation

The promotion of the production of language resources also includes our support of the infrastructure for evaluation campaigns and our support in developing a scientific field of language resources and evaluation, e.g. via the LREC conference.

Many of these tasks among which distribution and evaluation are being carried out by our distribution agency ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency).

ELRA also regularly conducts market studies and surveys in the field of HLT, and publishes a quarterly newsletter, distributed not only to its members but also to a large number of people in the HLT community.

In doing so, ELRA participates in the development of HLT and promotes HLT among the players on national, European and international levels.