/Press Release – Immediate
Paris, France, January 16, 2017/
*The Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA) at the Universitat Pompeu
Fabra (UPF) adopts the International Standard Language Resource Number
(ISLRN) initiative*
The *Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA)
<https://www.iula.upf.edu/indexuk.htm>* at the *Universitat Pompeu Fabra
(UPF)* <https://www.upf.edu/web/universitat> is now a certified provider
to the ISLRN system. This means that IULA can apply for ISLRNs on behalf
of the developers of the data that is managed and distributed via the
IULA network. IULA has already submitted 107 language resources to the
ISLRN. These include monolingual and multilingual written corpora and
lexica for the languages spoken in Spain (Aragonese, Asturian, Basque,
Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Galician), as well as other European
languages (English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese,
Romanian), and Esperanto. The meta-information for these language
resources is also available on the ISLRN website with a broad
international audience.
*Background*
As part of an international effort to document and archive the various
language resource development efforts around the world, a system of
assigning ISLRNs was established in November 2013. The ISLRN is a unique
“persistent identifier” to be assigned to each language resource. The
establishment of ISLRNs was a major step in the networked and shared
world of human language technologies. Unique resources must be
identified as they are, and meta-catalogues require a common
identification format to manage data correctly. Therefore, language
resources should carry identical identification schemes independent of
their representations, whatever their types and wherever their physical
locations (on hard drives, internet or intranet) (*http://islrn.org/*).
*About IULA*
The Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA), created in 1994 at the
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, is a research and training center that gets
together about 50 researchers. The group IULA Technologies of Language
Resources (TRL) is working on the creation, development and application
of technologies related to the acquisition, production, management,
validation and evaluation of Language Resources as required by Language
Technologies applications such as Machine Translation, Information
Extraction, Text Analytics, etc. Resources produced by TRL are licensed
under Creative Commons and they are available for direct download at
UPF's eRepository (*http://repositori.upf.edu/handle/10230/5963*).
To find out more about IULA and UPF, please visit the following
websites: *http://www.iula.upf.edu/ *and
*https://www.upf.edu/web/universitat*
*About ELRA*
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a
non-profit-making organisation founded by the European Commission in
1995, with the mission of providing a clearing house for language
resources and promoting human language technologies. To find out more
about ELRA, please visit the website: *http://www.elra.info
<http://portal.elda.org/>*
Contact: [email protected]
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