Networking Data Centers

该项目将启动ELDA/ELRA和最不发达国家之间的合作，包括两个组织之间的联网和交叉协议，以制作、获取、标准化、认证和分发用于研究、教育和技术开发的新型语言数据资源。最不发达国家和ELRA之间将要谈判的互惠协定将考虑到欧洲和美国对数据分发的限制。双方将通过制作包含45种以上语言数据的大型广播新闻语料库，具体执行法律协议，其中的法律、技术和分发问题将根据交叉协议进行梳理。制作过程将按照ELRA和最不发达国家以往工作所界定的这一领域的最佳做法进行，特别是将利用最不发达国家以往在收集单一语文广播新闻和通过互联网分发语文资源方面的经验。这项联合承诺将为两个组织之间的跨大西洋合作提供一个具体的测试案例，同时开发一种独特的资源，以促进在欧共体/国家科学基金会这一联合倡议下赞助的其他项目。

This project will initiate collaboration between ELDA/ELRA and LDC that includes networking and cross-agreements between the two organizations for the production, acquisition, normalization, certification and distribution of novel language data resources for research, education and technology development. A reciprocity agreement to be negotiated between LDC and ELRA will take into account both European and American constraints on the distribution of data. The parties will implement the legal agreement in a concrete manner through the production of a large-scale broadcast news corpus encompassing data in over 45 languages, where the legal, technical, and distribution issues will be sorted out in accordance with the cross-agreement. The production process will be conducted in accordance with best practices in this area as defined by ELRA's and LDC's previous work, and in particular will take advantage of LDC's previous experience in the collection of single language broadcast news collections and Internet-based distribution of language resources. The joint undertaking will provide a concrete test case for transatlantic cooperation between the two organizations while simultaneously developing a unique resource to facilitate the other projects sponsored under this joint EC/NSF initiative.