LREC 2012 Workshop on Language Resource Merging

Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec 2012 Satellite Workshops

Towards an International Standard on Feature Structure Representation

This paper describes the preliminary results of a joint initiative of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Consortium and the ISO Committee TC 37SC 4 (Language Resource management) to provide a standard for the representation and interchange of feature structures. The paper published in the proceedings of this workshop is in fact an extension of a paper published in the LREC 2004 proceedings, and...

Ninth Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora Workshop Programme

Comparable corpora are the most versatile and valuable resource for multilingual Natural Language Processing. The speaker will argue that comparable corpora can support a wider range of applications than has been demonstrated so far in the state of the art. The talk will present completed and ongoing work conducted by the speaker and colleagues from his research group where comparable corpora a...

Resources and Techniques for Multilingual Information Extraction

Official travel warnings published regularly in the internet by the ministries for foreign affairs of France, Germany, and the UK provide a useful resource for assessing the risks associated with travelling to some countries. The shallow IE system SProUT has been extended to meet the specific needs of delivering a language-neutral output for English, French, or German input texts. A shared type...

Building a Basque-Chinese Dictionary by Using English as Pivot

Bilingual dictionaries are key resources in several fields such as translation, language learning or various NLP tasks. However, only major languages have such resources. Automatically built dictionaries by using pivot languages could be a useful resource in these circumstances. Pivot-based bilingual dictionary building is based on merging two bilingual dictionaries which share a common languag...