MLIAM: ISLE-International Standards for Language Engineering

这是一个为期两年的持续资助项目的第一年。对多语文信息处理的兴趣日益增加，这需要在语文之间进行详细的映射，这突出了制定国际标准和商定评价/验证程序的必要性。我们再也负担不起为每个新应用开发语言资源的费用；一个广泛共享的基本组件平台是绝对必要的，它是一种公共基础设施，可以通过兼容的接口和组件确保系统的互操作性，这些接口和组件可以很容易地集成和重用（即插即用）。这个项目为就基本标准达成国际协商一致意见提供了一个框架，从而能够在全球范围内分享资源和组成部分。PI的方法建立在已经存在的达成共识的方法之上，该方法是在欧洲EAGLES标准化倡议（http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/rep2.html）中开发的。PI将带头成立一个对等的美国组织，AIGLES，即美国语言工程标准兴趣小组（也是鹰的法语），该小组将与欧洲人一起开发语言工程国际标准化（ISLE）。这项工作的基本理念不是证明某一特定理论方法的真实性或正确性，而是就一种允许合并多个信息源的通用格式达成一致。为了快速前进，一开始会进行粗略的区分，然后再对结果进行细化。（这种方法在几年前是令人憎恶的）。这项工作将集中在P1认为对多语言信息处理的持续发展最关键的三个不同领域：多语言词汇的标准化，包括词汇语义；多模态系统自然相互作用范式的标准化评估机器翻译系统和口语系统。

This is the first year of funding of a 2 year continuing award. The increased interest in multilingual information processing, which requires detailed mappings between languages, has highlighted the need for international standards, and agreed upon evaluation/validation procedures. We can no longer afford to (re)develop language resources for each new application; a shared broad scale platform of basic components is an absolute necessity as a common infrastructure to ensure the interoperability of systems through compatible interfaces and components that can be readily integrated and reused (plug and play). This project provides a framework for achieving international consensus on essential standards that would enable the sharing of resources and components on a global scale. The PI's approach builds on an already existing methodology for achieving consensus that has been developedvithin the EAGLES standardization initiative in Europe (http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/rep2.html). The PI will spearhead the formation of an equivalent American group, AIGLES, the American Interest Group on Language Engineering Standards (also French for eagles), that will join forces with the Europeans in the development of International Standardization for Language Engineering (ISLE). The underlying philosophy of the effort will be not to prove the truth or correctness of a particular theoretical approach, but rather to agree on a common format that can allow the merger of multiple sources of information. In order to move forward rapidly, coarse distinctions will be made initially and the results laterrefiner. (an approach that was anathema some years ago). The work will focus on three distinct areas the P1 considers the most critical for continued progress in multilingual information processing: standardization of multilingual lexicons, with lexical semantics; standardization of paradigms fornatural interaction inmultimodal systems; evaluation of machine translation systems and spoken language systems.