The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and its Distribution
Agency (ELDA) are currently completing the second stage of on on-going
Language Resource (LR) user needs survey that includes a section on needs
with respect to Multimodal/Multimedia Language Resources (MMLRs). Results
of the survey pertaining to these types of LRs will be presented at this
workshop in order to show the importance of such data from a total of 250
user institutions that have already responded. This survey, in addition to
a preference list of LRs mentioned in previous ELRA calls for the
production of LRs, clearly indicate an increasing need for MMLRs. ELRA
also promotes the design and use of different LR validation manuals
(currently available for written corpora and lexica, and for speech LRs)
that have been and are currently being used for both in-production
validation and post-production validation procedures. It is therefore of
utmost importance that the minimum set of core criteria for MMLR
meta-description and annotation schemas be developed. This will help set
standards that can be followed by LR producers and in turn be expected by
LRs users. Such standards should be documented in a new set of MMLR
validation manuals that ELRA desires to sponsor and implement for the
production and validation of future MMLRs. It is important that clear
descriptions for MMLRs be integrated into such a new validation manual. By
promoting the use of such standards and validation manuals, it will be
possible to ensure the quality of future MMLRs for this rapidly increasing
sector of LR activity.
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Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) &
European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA)
(Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques)
55, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30
mailto:jeff@elda.fr http://www.elda.fr/
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