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| Title | Virtual Language Observatory: The Portal to the Language Resources and Technology Universe |
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| Authors | Dieter Van Uytvanck, Claus Zinn, Daan Broeder, Peter Wittenburg and Mariano Gardellini |
| Abstract | Over the years, the field of Language Resources and Technology (LRT) hasdeveloped a tremendous amount of resources and tools. However, there is noready-to-use map that researchers could use to gain a good overview andsteadfast orientation when searching for, say corpora or software tools tosupport their studies. It is rather the case that information is scatteredacross project- or organisation-specific sites, which makes it hard if notimpossible for less-experienced researchers to gather all relevant material.Clearly, the provision of metadata is central to resource and softwareexploration. However, in the LRT field, metadata comes in many forms, tastesand qualities, and therefore substantial harmonization and curation efforts arerequired to provide researchers with metadata-based guidance. To address thisissue a broad alliance of LRT providers (CLARIN, the Linguist List, DOBES,DELAMAN, DFKI, ELRA) have initiated the Virtual Language Observatory portal toprovide a low-barrier, easy-to-follow entry point to language resources andtools; it can be accessed via http://www.clarin.eu/vlo |
| Language | Tools, systems, applications |
| Topics | LR Infrastructures and Architectures, Metadata, Tools, systems, applications |
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Virtual Language Observatory: The Portal to the Language Resources and Technology Universe |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{VANUYTVANCK10.273, author = {Dieter Van Uytvanck, Claus Zinn, Daan Broeder, Peter Wittenburg and Mariano Gardellini}, title = {Virtual Language Observatory: The Portal to the Language Resources and Technology Universe}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |