Glossary
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| [B] |
| BC See Browsable Corpus. |
| Browsable Corpus A concept which is aimed to help the researcher to navigate in the universe of corpora at the MPI and eventually even in a global universe. XML is used for the meta descriptions. |
| [C] |
| Corpus A collection of pieces of language that are selected and ordered according to explicit linguistic criteria in order to be used as a sample of the language. |
| [D] |
| DC See Dublin Core. |
| Dublin Core (DC) A set of meta-data elements used to describe electronic resources. The Dublin Core data model is described with RDF. |
| [E] |
| ELRA See European Language Resources Association. |
| European Language Resources Association (ELRA) An agency which goal is to provide a centralized organization for the validation, management, and distribution of speech, text, and terminology resources and tools, and to promote their use within the European telematics R&TD community. |
| Extensible Markup Language (XML) The universal format for structured documents and data on the Web. |
| [L] |
| Language Resource Collections of data which primarily document communicative acts of humans by some form of recording and/or descriptions, both directly as in corpora, or at higher levels of abstraction in lexicons and ontologies. The primary data can be text, video recording and/or audio tracks. |
| Language Resource Community Researchers and developers working with language resources. These can be either researchers using such resources for theorizing or testing new hypotheses, or technology developers who use such resources to train their statistical recognition machinery. |
| [M] |
| Metadata Data about data. |
| Meta Description A structured set of meta-data, which describes a certain language resource or a group of such resources in a way that it is meaningful to the user community. |
| Meta-Universe The universe of meta-descriptions which cover all the resources for a particular user community. The meta-universe of descriptions should be open to everyone, although access to the resources themselves can be restricted. |
| [R] |
| RDF See The Resource Description Framework. |
| Resource Description Framework (RDF) Integrates a variety of web-based metadata activities including sitemaps, content ratings, stream channel definitions, search engine data collection (web crawling), digital library collections, and distributed authoring, using XML as an interchange syntax. |
| [X] |
| XML See Extensible Markup Language. |