Workshop: Development of Linguistic Linked open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences; University of Chicago, July 2015

共享研究数据对所有科学都至关重要，对语言学和语言科学来说尤其具有挑战性。儿童如何获得语言，任何可能的语言或多种语言，语言获得和/或丧失与大脑发育或退化有何关系？ 诸如此类的基本问题需要咨询来自不同语言和情况以及许多不同学习者的许多来源的大量不同语言数据集。 解决诸如此类的关键问题对许多社会问题至关重要，例如涉及美国和世界各地不断扩大的多语言人口的问题。 然而，语言数据目前以许多不同的格式存在于许多具有不同注释方案的独立异构数据库中，使得跨不同语言、学科或领域（例如医学或教育）的协作研究人员或其他用户很难访问语言数据。 为了使大量不同的语言数据集可访问和可解释，必须应对许多概念和技术挑战。该项目在美国语言学会暑期研究所举办了一个研讨会，由一群关注这些挑战并努力应对这些挑战的国际学者组成。 计划举办的讲习班将吸收来自开放知识基金会开放语言学工作组的欧洲学者以及北美和南美学者参加，利用欧洲在将语言资源转化为开放（所有人都可访问）链接（将每个数据项与其他数据项相关联）数据方面取得的进展。它将解决的问题，包括计算上可行的注释计划，网络接口，链接技术的发展，以及合作和可持续性的原则。代表这些领域的学者将派代表参加。合作研究儿童双语和多语言的研究人员将提供一个测试案例，实例化链接的数据需求。 研究生将被整合。 预期成果包括起草一份社区共享的基础设施设计、实施和可持续性愿景，使大量数据更容易共享，可供各国和各学科的学生和研究人员使用，并可作为其他科学领域的典范。会议记录汇编将通过网络提供。

Sharing research data, essential to all science, is particularly challenging to Linguistics and the Language Sciences. How do children acquire language, any possible language or multiple languages, how does language acquisition and/or loss relate to brain development or degeneration? Fundamental questions such as these require consulting large and diverse sets of language data from many sources across different languages and situations and many different learners. Answering crucial questions such as these is essential to many social issues, such as those involving expanding multilingual populations in the US and across the world. However, language data currently exist in many different formats, in many independent heterogeneous databases with divergent annotation schemes, making its access by collaborating researchers or other users across different languages, disciplines or fields such as medicine or education, very difficult. In order to make large and diverse sets of language data accessible and interpretable, many conceptual and technical challenges must be met. This project convenes a workshop at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute consisting of an international set of scholars who are concerned with these challenges and working to confront them. The planned workshop will integrate European scholars from the Open Linguistics Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation, with North and South American scholars, exploiting advances that have been made in Europe on the transformation of language resources into open (accessible to all) linked (relating each data item to others) data. It will address issues including development of computationally feasible annotation schemes, web interfaces, linkage technicalities, and principles of collaboration and sustainability. Scholars representing each of these areas will be represented. Researchers collaborating on the study of bilingualism and multilingualism in children will provide a test case, instantiating linked data needs. Graduate students will be integrated. Expected results include draft of a community-shared vision for the design, implementation, and sustainability of an infrastructure to make large amounts of data easier to share, available to students and researchers across countries and disciplines, and which can serve as a model for other areas of science. A collection of proceedings will be made available through the web.