The objectives of the NERC project were the preparation of a European infrastructure on language resources. Specifically, it aimed at:
- setting up a European Corpora Network,
- producing a survey of the existing resources in the various European countries,
- suggesting short, medium and long-term actions in the field of corpora,
- investigating the legal aspects of the issue in the European countries,
- proposing a common linguistic annotation schema for written resources.
This project was the first of a series of projects on language resources. It set the basis for the production of harmonised resources at a European level, and its main objectives were further pursued by the projects MLAP-PAROLE, Parole and Simple.