Towards a User-Friendly Platform for Building Language Resources based on Web Services

Marc Poch, Antonio Toral, Olivier Hamon, Valeria Quochi, Núria Bel


Abstract
This paper presents the platform developed in the PANACEA project, a distributed factory that automates the stages involved in the acquisition, production, updating and maintenance of Language Resources required by Machine Translation and other Language Technologies. We adopt a set of tools that have been successfully used in the Bioinformatics field, they are adapted to the needs of our field and used to deploy web services, which can be combined to build more complex processing chains (workflows). This paper describes the platform and its different components (web services, registry, workflows, social network and interoperability). We demonstrate the scalability of the platform by carrying out a set of massive data experiments. Finally, a validation of the platform across a set of required criteria proves its usability for different types of users (non-technical users and providers).
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L12-1305
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
Year:
2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1156–1163
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/543_Paper.pdf
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Marc Poch, Antonio Toral, Olivier Hamon, Valeria Quochi, and Núria Bel. 2012. Towards a User-Friendly Platform for Building Language Resources based on Web Services. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 1156–1163, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Towards a User-Friendly Platform for Building Language Resources based on Web Services (Poch et al., LREC 2012)
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