INTEROP: Sustainable Interoperability for Language Technology

该项目支持美国参与一个国际网络，以努力实现语言资源之间的互操作性，欧盟委员会电子内容加方案为此提供了平行的欧洲支持。该网络涉及语文处理界和相关领域的成员，他们正在努力就共享语文资源和应用程序的数据和技术、现有数据和工具的互操作性以及促进资源建设和注释的标准达成共识。也在寻求亚洲同事的参与。要处理的资源和技术包括标注语料库(文本、音频)、词典、本体论、自动语音识别器、词汇化器、各级语言现象的标记器、命名实体识别器、信息抽取器以及搜索、访问和注释系统。这些资源的创建和使用跨越语言学领域以及计算机科学和工程中几个相关但相对孤立的学科，包括自然语言文本和语音处理、信息检索、机器翻译和语义网。其目标是将在这些组织中相对孤立地开发的现有、分散的技术和资源转变为可访问、稳定和可互操作的资源，这些资源可以跨多个领域随时重复使用。该项目通过网络基础设施办公室的互操作方案征集资金，还得到了社会、行为与经济科学和计算机与信息科学与工程理事会以及国际科学与工程办公室的资助。

This project supports U.S. participation in an international Network to work toward achieving interoperability among language resources, for which parallel European support has been provided by the European Commission eContentplus Programme. The Network involves members of the language processing community and related areas who are working to build consensus regarding the sharing of data and technologies for language resources and applications, interoperability of existing data and tools, and the promotion of standards for resource building and annotation. The participation of colleagues in Asia is also being sought. The resources and technologies to be addressed include annotated corpora (texts, audio), lexicons, ontologies, automatic speech recognizers, lemmatizers, taggers for all levels of linguistic phenomena, named entity recognizers, information extractors, as well as systems for search, access, and annotation. The creation and use of these resources span the field of linguistics and several related but relatively isolated disciplines within computer science and engineering, including natural language text and speech processing, information retrieval, machine translation, and the semantic web. The goal is to turn existing, fragmented technologies and resources developed within these groups in relative isolation into accessible, stable, and interoperable resources that can be readily reused across several areas. This project is being funded through the INTEROP solicitation in the Office of Cyberinfrastructure, with funding also from the Directorates of Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences and Computer & Information Science & Engineering, and the Office of International Science & Engineering.