When language is involved in a research (or development) project, it will certainly require linguistic resources. Providing them is becoming a task, even a business, by itself.

ELRA provides resources that are mainly suited for research purposes; their prices for commercial purposes tend to be high (linguistic resources are expensive). ELRA can also help those seeking a distributor for their own resources. It is based in Paris (France).

The LDC is an open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. The University of Pennsylvania is the LDC’s host institution.

The TELRI association aims at collecting, promoting, and making available monolingual and multilingual language resources and tools for the extraction of language data and linguistic knowledge, with a special focus on Central and Eastern European languages. It is based in Mannheim, Germany, as a non-profit organization.

The Foreign Language Resource Center provides: a database of Human Language Technology (HLT) software, a survey for developers and companies to enter information about software and other resources.