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/Press Release – Immediate/
/Paris, France, June 19, 2017/
*The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) is becoming
an increasingly widespread persistent identifier*
Since the deployment of ISLRN, 3 years ago, the number of Language
Resources which were allocated an ISLRN has grown significantly to reach
2500+. These LRs include raw and annotated corpora, lexicons and
dictionaries, speech resources (conversational, synthesis, etc.),
evaluation sets and multimodal resources, and cover 219 distinct
languages (including sign languages).
In the first place, the ISLRN system has been endorsed by two large data
centers, namely ELRA (European Language Resources Association) and LDC
(Linguistic Data Consortium) which team up to maintain jointly the
assignment process. Other significant contributions come from
institutions like the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the Resource
Management Agency (RMA), the Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA) at
the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF).
Moreover, authors are invited to quote the ISLRN of each Language
Resource they are referring to in the paper(s) they are submitting to
LREC Conferences, which makes the persistent identifier a key factor of
the LR citation process.
*Background*
As part of an international effort to document and archive the various
Language Resource development efforts around the world, a system
assigning ISLRNs was established in November 2013 and deployed in April
2014. 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
regardless their representations, their types and their storage place
(hard drives, internet or intranet) (http://islrn.org/).
*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/en/>
*References*
LDC: https://www.ldc.upenn.edu <https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/>
JRC:
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/internet-surveillance-systems
RMA:http://rma.nwu.ac.za
UPF:http://www.iula.upf.eduand https://www.upf.edu/web/universitat
LREC Conferences: www.lrec-conf.org <http://www.lrec-conf.org>
Read also: Valérie Mapelli, Vladimir Popescu, Lin Liu and Khalid
Choukri, /Language Resource Citation: the ISLRN Dissemination and
Further Developments/, in Proceedings of the Tenth International
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portorož,
Slovenia: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/summaries/1251.html
Contact: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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