MLIAM: ISLE-International Standards for Language Engineering

这是两年持续奖的第一年资金来源。人们对多语文信息处理的兴趣与日俱增，这需要在各语文之间进行详细的映射，这凸显了制定国际标准的必要性，并商定了评价/验证程序。我们再也承担不起为每个新应用程序(重新)开发语言资源的代价了；共享广泛的基本组件平台是绝对必要的，因为它是通过兼容的接口和组件(即插即用)来确保系统的互操作性的公共基础设施。该项目为就基本标准达成国际共识提供了一个框架，这将使资源和组成部分能够在全球范围内共享。PI的方法建立在现有的达成共识的方法上，这是通过欧洲EAGLES标准化倡议制定的(http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/rep2.html).国际语言工程协会将带头成立一个相当于美国的组织-Aigles，即美国语言工程标准兴趣小组(也是法语中鹰的意思)，该小组将与欧洲人联手开发语言工程国际标准化(ISLE)。这一努力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，而是商定一种能够合并多种信息来源的共同格式。为了快速推进，首先将进行粗略的区分，然后再对结果进行细化。(这种方法在几年前是令人憎恨的)。这项工作将侧重于P-1认为对多语文信息处理方面的持续进展最为关键的三个不同领域：多语文词典的标准化、词汇语义的标准化；多模式系统中自然互动范例的标准化；机器翻译系统和口语系统的评价。

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.