SI2-SSI: The Language Application Grid: A Framework for Rapid Adaptation and Reuse

SI2-SSI：语言应用网格：快速适应和重用的框架

• 批准号: 1147944
• 负责人: Nancy Ide
• 金额: $ 71.7万
• 依托单位: Vassar College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1147944&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SI2; SSI; Language; Application; Grid

The need for robust language processing capabilities across academic disciplines, education, and industry is without question of vital importance to national security, infrastructure development, and the competitiveness of American business. However, at this time a robust, interoperable software infrastructure to support natural language processing (NLP) research and development does not exist. To fill this gap, this project establishes an large international collaborative effort involving key international players to develop an open, web-based infrastructure through which massive and distributed language resources can be easily accessed, in whole or in part, and within which tailored language services can be efficiently composed, disseminated and consumed by researchers, developers, and students. The goal of this project is to build a comprehensive network of web services and resources within the NLP community. This requires four specific activities: (1) Design, develop and promote a service-oriented architecture for NLP development that defines atomic and composite web services, along with support for service discovery, testing and reuse; (2) Construct a Language Application Grid (LAPPS Grid) based on Service Grid Software developed in Japan; (3) Provide an open advancement (OA) framework for component- and application-based evaluation that enables rapid identification of frequent error categories within modules, thus contributing to more effective investment of resources; (4) Actively promote adoption, use, and community involvement with the LAPPS Grid. By providing access to cloud-based services and support for locally-run services, the LAPPS Grid will lead to the development of a massive global network of language data and processing capabilities that can be used by scientists and engineers from diverse disciplines, providing components that require no expertise in language processing to use. Research in sociology, psychology, economics, education, linguistics, digital media, and the humanities will be impacted by the ability to easily manipulate and process diverse language data sources in multiple languages.

跨学术学科、教育和行业的强大语言处理能力的需求，无疑对国家安全、基础设施发展和美国企业的竞争力至关重要。然而，目前还不存在支持自然语言处理(NLP)研究和开发的强大的、可互操作的软件基础设施。为了填补这一空白，该项目建立了一个大型国际合作项目，包括主要的国际参与者，以开发一个开放的、基于网络的基础设施，通过这个基础设施，可以方便地访问大量和分散的语言资源，全部或部分，并且在其中，研究人员、开发人员和学生可以有效地组合、传播和使用定制的语言服务。该项目的目标是在NLP社区内建立一个全面的网络服务和资源网络。这需要四项具体活动：(1)设计、开发和促进面向服务的NLP开发架构，该架构定义了原子和组合Web服务，并支持服务发现、测试和重用；(2)基于日本开发的服务网格软件构建语言应用网格(LAPPS Grid)；(3)为基于组件和应用的评估提供开放的推进(OA)框架，使能够快速识别模块内的常见错误类别，从而有助于更有效地投资资源；(4)积极促进LAPS网格的采用、使用和社区参与。通过提供对基于云的服务的访问和对本地运行服务的支持，Lapp网格将导致开发一个庞大的全球语言数据和处理能力网络，可供来自不同学科的科学家和工程师使用，提供不需要语言处理专业知识即可使用的组件。社会学、心理学、经济学、教育学、语言学、数字媒体和人文科学的研究将受到以多种语言轻松操作和处理不同语言数据源的能力的影响。