Infrastructure for language service composition

2008

The Language Grid is a middleware with which people can connect and use language resources such as machine translations, morphological analyzers and others created in the fields of intercultural collaboration. The Language Grid cannot exist without the collaboration of Language Grid Users who provide language and computation resources, language services, and collaboration tools. This paper overviews Language Grid Association, a user group of the Language Grid and a body promoting action research to support the multicultural society.

The Language Application (LAPPS) Grid project is establishing a framework that enables language service discovery, composition, and reuse and promotes sustainability, manageability, usability, and interoperability of natural language Processing (NLP) components. It is based on the service-oriented architecture (SOA), a more recent, web-oriented version of the "pipeline" architecture that has long been used in NLP for sequencing loosely-coupled linguistic analyses. The LAPPS Grid provides access to basic NLP processing tools and resources and enables pipelining such tools to create custom NLP applications, as well as composite services such as question answering and machine translation together with language resources such as mono-and multilingual corpora and lexicons that support NLP. The transformative aspect of the LAPPS Grid is that it orchestrates access to and deployment of language resources and processing functions available from servers around the globe and enables users to add their own language resources, services, and even service grids to satisfy their particular needs.

Proceedings European Telematics: Advancing …, 1998

Language Technology for Transnational Web Services Multilinguality and Cross Cultural Communication 1 Stephan Busemann TEMSIS DFKI, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbrücken busemann@dfki.de Summary The growing flood of information on the internet is ...

2004

A web services based architecture for Language Resources utilizing existing technology such as XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI is presented. The web services architecture creates a pervasive information infrastructure that enables straightforward access to two kinds of Language Resources: traditional information sources and language processing resources. Details a bout two practical implementations of this web services architecture are given.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2016

In the context of the Linguistic Applications (LAPPS) Grid project, we have undertaken the definition of a Web Service Exchange Vocabulary (WS-EV) specifying a terminology for a core of linguistic objects and features exchanged among NLP tools that consume and produce linguistically annotated data. The goal is not to define a new set of terms, but rather to provide a single web location where terms relevant for exchange among NLP tools are defined and provide a "sameAs" link to all known web-based definitions that correspond to them. The WS-EV is intended to be used by a federation of six grids currently being formed but is usable by any web service platform. Ultimately, the WS-EV could be used for data exchange among tools in general, in addition to web services.

2004

The increasing demand for linguistic resources consisting of substantial amounts of data, such as large corpora, presents the challenge of building computational infrastructures capable of handling unprecedented amounts of information. One possible solution is the sharing of high-level, linguistically motivated and carefully balanced corpora for building one large language resource accessible worldwide. The most feasible way of integrating such widely distributed resources seems to be the construction of an infrastructure to connect various sites by interfacing local presentation formats, access methods and policies in a global network to automatically manage access procedures to widely distributed and diversified materials. Grid computing systems are designed to meet these requirements. This paper presents work in progress on an experiment for building a distributed corpus structure prototype. A small web portal was designed to perform global queries in the distributed corpus and c...

2003

Information and communication technologies have permeated the way people of all nations live. Technology transfer had been the popular terminology used for the developing countries for a long time. Today computer technologies have webbed the world together as one global village thus making technology transfer unavoidable and inevitable. E-learning has become the popular mode of instruction in business and in higher education and most of all a veritable instrument for change. Language is an important aspect of communication, education and learning which cannot be separated from forms of interactions in the learning process. Electronic-learning, which may be viewed as a virtual teacher, pseudo-teacher or complementary teacher, is characterised by forms of learner interactions. The study of language reveals its importance, whether as first, second or tenth and these are crucial in the conduct of e-learning. In as much as interaction is being orchestrated by an invisible tutor, language becomes the hallmark of this new approach. Language must have some significant roles in the way in which learning occurs and consequently, in the success or failure of e-learning for an effective technology transfer from one setting to another in the global village.

NAACL-ANLP 2000 Workshop on Applied interlinguas practical applications of interlingual approaches to NLP -, 2000

In this paper, we describe the Universal Networking Language, an interlingua to be plugged in a Web environment aiming at allowing for many-to-many information exchange, 'many' here referring to many natural languages. The interlingua is embedded in a Knowledge-Base MT system whose languagedependent modules comprise an encoder, a decoder, and linguistic resources that have been developed by native speakers of each language involved in the project. Issues concerning both the interlingua formalism and its foundational issues are discussed.

Abstract In this paper, we propose the collaborative construction of language resources (translation memories) using a novel browser extension-based client-server architecture that allows translation (or 'localisation') of web content capturing and aligning source and target content produced by the 'power of the crowd'. The architectural approach chosen enables collaborative, in-context, and realtime localisation of web content supported by the crowd and high-quality language resources.

2008

Our research organization has been constructing a large scale database named SHACHI by collecting detailed meta information on language resources (LRs) in Asia and Western countries. The metadata database contains more than 2,000 compiled LRs such as corpora, dictionaries, thesauruses and lexicons, forming a large scale metadata of LRs archive. Its metadata, an extended version of OLAC metadata set conforming to Dublin Core, have been collected semi-automatically. This paper explains the design and the structure of the metadata database, as well as the realization of the catalogue search tool.