%0 Conference Proceedings %T Smooth Sailing for STEVIN %A Spyns, Peter %A D’Halleweyn, Elisabeth %Y Calzolari, Nicoletta %Y Choukri, Khalid %Y Declerck, Thierry %Y Doğan, Mehmet Uğur %Y Maegaard, Bente %Y Mariani, Joseph %Y Moreno, Asuncion %Y Odijk, Jan %Y Piperidis, Stelios %S Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12) %D 2012 %8 May %I European Language Resources Association (ELRA) %C Istanbul, Turkey %F spyns-dhalleweyn-2012-smooth %X In this paper we report on the past evaluation of the STEVIN programme in the field of Human Language Technology for Dutch (HLTD). STEVIN was a 11.4 M euro programme that was jointly organised and financed by the Flemish and Dutch governments. The aim was to provide academia and industry with basic building blocks for a linguistic infrastructure for the Dutch language. An independent evaluation has been carried out. The evaluators concluded that the most important targets of the STEVIN programme have been achieved to a very high extent. In this paper, we summarise the context, the evaluation method, the resulting resources and the highlights of the STEVIN final evaluation. %U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/112_Paper.pdf %P 1021-1028