Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2018)

It is the LREC 20th Anniversary and LREC has become one of the most successful conferences of the field. Data are pervasive in Natural Language Processing and Language Technology: we call our data Language Resources (LR). But when LREC was started by ELRA, in 1998 in Granada, from an idea of Antonio Zampolli and Joseph Mariani, it was really a new adventure and a challenge. There were well established big conferences but he thought that the new emerging field of Language Resources deserved its own dedicated forum. In the keynote talk I gave at LREC1998 I could say: "the infrastructural role of Language Resources as the necessary common platform on which new technologies and applications can be based is nowadays widely recognised." This could not have been said only few years before. I had the pleasure and the honour of being involved in LREC from the beginning, first as member of the Program Committee and since 2004 as Conference Chair.