This roadmap
is a draft document prepared in the framework of the ELSNET
project and
network and was presented for the first time during the Joint COCOSDA/ICCWLRE
Meeting "Building
the Language Resources and Evaluation Roadmap",
held in Lisbon on 30th May 2004 in conjunction
with LREC
2004.
Much
of its content is based on the input kindly provided by
the following HLT experts: Sophia Ananiadou, Steven Bird,
Sonja Bosch, Paul Buitelaar, Nicoletta Calzolari, Jean-Pierre
Chanod, Fabio Ciravegna, Walter Daelemans, Robert Dale,
Lars Degerstedt, Christiane Fellbaum, Dafydd Gibbon, Eduard
Hovy, Shuichi Itahashi, Arne Joensson, Gudrun Magnusdottir,
Wolfgang Minker, Günter Neumann, Stelios Piperidis,
Carol Peters, Roberto Pieraccini, Andrei Popescu-Belis,
Ehud Reiter, Laurent Romary, Justus Roux, Marc Schröder,
Gary Simons, Kiril Simov, Florian Schiel, Takenobu Tokunaga
and Inge Zwitserlood.
Three
lanes are distinguished: one for Language Processing Components,
one for Language Resources and the Meta-Level Lane, containing
milestones related to Evaluation, Standards etc..
A language
resource is linguistic data that can either be "taken"
(re-used) by interpreters or used to build other resources;
a language processing component is a re-usable program that
can interpret resources.
A roadmap
cannot be valuably designed by a few experts; it needs
an agreement by many and we want to achieve this goal by
soliciting your valuable suggestions for modification and
extension.
The
roadmap is organized into milestones and relations between
them; it has main goals (in red) and subgoals (in black), with
is-subgoal relations between them (in green); main goals are
placed in the year of its latest subgoal.
We did
not make an attempt to resolve possible conflicts or to
relate main goals to each other: this was left to further
preparation of the meeting.
An essential
component accompanying the roadmap is the language
resources landscape.
A preliminary
version of the roadmap was prepared in the framework
of the ENABLER
project and network.
For
more information on the HLT roadmap system, we refer to
an upcoming article in ELSNews, also available here.
