Proper Language Resource Centers

Willem Elbers, Daan Broeder, Dieter van Uytvanck


Abstract
Language resource centers allow researchers to reliably deposit their structured data together with associated meta data and run services operating on this deposited data. We are looking into possibilities to create long-term persistency of both the deposited data and the services operating on this data. Challenges, both technical and non-technical, that need to be solved are the need to replicate more than just the data, proper identification of the digital objects in a distributed environment by making use of persistent identifiers and the set-up of a proper authentication and authorization domain including the management of the authorization information on the digital objects. We acknowledge the investment that most language resource centers have made in their current infrastructure. Therefore one of the most important requirements is the loose coupling with existing infrastructures without the need to make many changes. This shift from a single language resource center into a federated environment of many language resource centers is discussed in the context of a real world center: The Language Archive supported by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
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L12-1308
Volume:
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
Month:
May
Year:
2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3260–3263
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/547_Paper.pdf
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Willem Elbers, Daan Broeder, and Dieter van Uytvanck. 2012. Proper Language Resource Centers. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3260–3263, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Proper Language Resource Centers (Elbers et al., LREC 2012)
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