“Rendering Endangered Lexicons Interoperable through Standards Harmonization”: the RELISH project

Helen Aristar-Dry, Sebastian Drude, Menzo Windhouwer, Jost Gippert, Irina Nevskaya


Abstract
The RELISH project promotes language-oriented research by addressing a two-pronged problem: (1) the lack of harmonization between digital standards for lexical information in Europe and America, and (2) the lack of interoperability among existing lexicons of endangered languages, in particular those created with the Shoebox/Toolbox lexicon building software. The cooperation partners in the RELISH project are the University of Frankfurt (FRA), the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI Nijmegen), and Eastern Michigan University, the host of the Linguist List (ILIT). The project aims at harmonizing key European and American digital standards whose divergence has hitherto impeded international collaboration on language technology for resource creation and analysis, as well as web services for archive access. Focusing on several lexicons of endangered languages, the project will establish a unified way of referencing lexicon structure and linguistic concepts, and develop a procedure for migrating these heterogeneous lexicons to a standards-compliant format. Once developed, the procedure will be generalizable to the large store of lexical resources involved in the LEGO and DoBeS projects.
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L12-1521
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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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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766–770
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Helen Aristar-Dry, Sebastian Drude, Menzo Windhouwer, Jost Gippert, and Irina Nevskaya. 2012. “Rendering Endangered Lexicons Interoperable through Standards Harmonization”: the RELISH project. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 766–770, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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“Rendering Endangered Lexicons Interoperable through Standards Harmonization”: the RELISH project (Aristar-Dry et al., LREC 2012)
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