INTEROP: Sustainable Interoperability for Language Technology

该项目支持美国参与一个国际网络，努力实现语言资源之间的互操作性，为此，欧洲委员会内容增加计划提供了并行的欧洲支持。该网络涉及语言处理社区和相关领域的成员，他们正在努力就语言资源和应用程序的数据和技术共享、现有数据和工具的互操作性以及促进资源建设和注释标准建立共识。还在寻求亚洲同事的参与。要处理的资源和技术包括带注释的语料库（文本、音频）、词汇、本体、自动语音识别器、词法识别器、用于所有层次语言现象的标注器、命名实体识别器、信息提取器，以及用于搜索、访问和注释的系统。这些资源的创造和使用跨越了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。目标是将这些小组中相对孤立地开发的现有的碎片化技术和资源转化为可访问的、稳定的和可互操作的资源，这些资源可以很容易地跨多个领域重用。该项目通过网络基础设施办公室的INTEROP招标获得资金，社会、行为与经济科学、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也提供资金。

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.