"Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources"
Nicholas Thieberger
thien at UNIMELB.EDU.AU
Sat Feb 10 02:52:33 UTC 2007
"Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources" is the topic of a
workshop to be held July 13-15 at Stanford University in conjunction
with the 2007 LSA Summer Institute. It will capitalize on the
momentum of two workshops held in conjunction with the 2006 LSA
Summer Meeting at Michigan State University: the Digital Tools Summit
in Linguistics (DTSL), and the E-MELD (Electronic Metastructure for
Endangered Languages Data) workshop on digital language
documentation, which focused on "Tools and Standards: The State of
the Art."
A major aim of both E-MELD and DTSL has been to involve an
interdisciplinary group of researchers in the resolution of pressing
issues in linguistic data management. E-MELD has primarily stimulated
the development, evaluation and amelioration of guidelines and
standards for annotation, computer-assisted lexicography, ontologies,
and extant tools; DTSL focused on catalyzing the development of the
next generation of tools for linguistic inquiry. In focusing on
interoperability, the TILR workshop will exploit the momentum of
E-MELD and DTSL to involve an even more diverse group of researchers
in addressing a critical issue in the development of
cyberinfrastructure for linguistics.
This meeting is intended to encourage tool developers to coordinate
outputs of existing tools and to plan new tools that are extensible,
modular, and renewable. If tools developed by one project can be
readily adapted for other similar projects, this will not only
conserve development time and effort, but also constitute major
progress towards the ultimate goal of creating sustainable and
accessible digital resources.
Deadline for papers is February 15th
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