1. Overview Ideas Other Stuff
Working Group #6
Overview
Ideas
Other Stuff
Participants: Helen Aristar-Dry, Terry Langendoen, Lori Levin, William Lewis, Steve Miller, Thorsten Trippel, Eno-Abasi, Urua, Robert Vann
June 20-22, 2006
EMELD 2006
Tools and Standards

2. WG#6 – Resource and Data Discovery
Questions:
What tools exist for
Resource Discovery?
Data Discovery?
What do linguists (want to) look for?
Do the tools and the needs match?
June 20-22, 2006
EMELD 2006
Tools and Standards

3. What resources do linguists want?
What linguists want:
Much more MORE?
Plenty o PRELDs?
A QBE 4 IGT?
A pet horta!
June 20-22, 2006
EMELD 2006
Tools and Standards

4. What resources do linguists want?
What linguists want:
Corpora
Archives
Linguistic “data”, specific kinds of linguistic data types (e.g., constructions)
Speakers of Languages
Other linguists who work on specific languages
Find data that exist only in legacy formats
E.g., not online
The “shoebox registry”
Resources for Languages
If none available, for genetically related languages
June 20-22, 2006
EMELD 2006
Tools and Standards

5. More things linguists want …
More resources that linguists and communities want (for particular languages):
Unicode fonts
Keyboard layouts
Font Converters
POS taggers/OCR software, etc.
June 20-22, 2006
EMELD 2006
Tools and Standards

6. Tools for Discovery: Resources
Two classes of tools:
Tools that do resource search
OLAC
Google
IMDI
June 20-22, 2006
EMELD 2006
Tools and Standards

7. Tools for Discovery: Data
Two classes of tools:
Tools that do data (deep) search
Usually within resource
Often idiosyncratic
Exceptions:
Tgrep
Need more QBE (Query by Example) tools
Pre-packaged queries
June 20-22, 2006
EMELD 2006
Tools and Standards

8. Tools Room additions Tools room The Archive/Corpus Mall
Need services listed
Services to list include
Aggregators
Search tools
The Archive/Corpus Mall
One stop shop for all your archive and corpus needs
Ultimately should be OLAC
(May harvest from Natural Language Software Registry and OLAC)
June 20-22, 2006
EMELD 2006
Tools and Standards

9. OLAC
Mechanisms for requesting changes to OLAC metadata not publicized well
There are additions that linguists might want
Additional metadata for sub-disciplines
Need an OLAC tutorial
For potential resource providers
For users looking for resources
Need a service that will register your archive for you
(they ask the questions and do all the work)
June 20-22, 2006
EMELD 2006
Tools and Standards

10. How to Get More (New) Resources and Data?
Simons et al, A model for interoperability
How to Get More (New) Resources and Data?
Resources and Data
Dissertations
Publications
Language data
Incentives to get more linguists to provide resources and data $$
Recognition
Grades
Archives that warehouse documents and data, even on a small scale (and provide metadata?)
Ended up dominating our discussions
June 20-22, 2006
EMELD 2006
Tools and Standards
EMELD 2004, Linguistic Databases

11. Language Data
Even if not available to the public, all resources should be archived!!!
June 20-22, 2006
EMELD 2006
Tools and Standards