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LIRICS Project: Unlocking Multilingual Resources for European Industry

LIRICS aims to establish industry-validated standards for managing multilingual data in Europe, reducing costs and enhancing interoperability. The project will provide open-source tools, gain industry support, and offer a pay-per-use model. Key deliverables include standards following ISO milestones, improvements in data categories, and a reference implementation platform. The participants, including leading experts in NLP and industry members, will collaborate to ensure the success of the project. Users can expect benefits such as improved interoperability, lower operational costs, and access to a wide array of languages.

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LIRICS Project: Unlocking Multilingual Resources for European Industry

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  1. LIRICSLinguistic Infrastructure for Interoperable Resources and Systems ►Kick off meeting presentation ►Proposal N° 22.236 ►Presented by Laurent Romary (INRIA, France, chair of ISO-TC37/SC4) Kick off meeting (Luxembourg)

  2. Expected results of the project • Europe being a mosaic of languages, the processing of multilingual linguistic data concerns a lot of people in Europe • And these data need to be improved, extended, processed, merged, used and re-used • But today there exists no established standard to enable interoperability and re-use of multilingual data • For this reason, these tasks form a timely and costly part of daily work of Europe’s industry Kick off meeting (Luxembourg)

  3. Expected results of the project To lower this cost, LIRICS will: • Provide Europe with a set of industry validated standards for language resource management ratified within the project lifetime • Facilitate the acceptance of these standards by providing an open-source reference implementation platform, related web services and test suites • Gain full industry support and input to the standards development via the Industry Advisory group and demonstration workshops • Provide a pay-per-use business model for use by industry validated during the project Kick off meeting (Luxembourg)

  4. Linguistic Infrastructure created • Standards following the ISO-TC37/SC4 milestonesThe deliverables will be direct inputs to the ISO ballots- a Lexical Markup Framework (ISO 24613) committee draft will be submitted to ISO ballot at M18. And DIS ballot at M27.- improvement and testing of Morpho-syntactic Markup Framework WD (ISO 24611)- NWIP for a syntatic annotation model • ISO Data Category Registry (ISO 12620) strengthened with descriptions in morpho-syntax and semantics to be endorsed by ISO Thematic Domain Committe • LIRICS web site and mailing list Kick off meeting (Luxembourg)

  5. Users & Benefits for users • Market: - translation - localised tools - linguistic data based solutions • Users: NLP solution providers, lexicon publishers and multilingual end users • Benefits for users: better interoperability, lower cost of operation, more languages available, better approach to asian & semitic languages Kick off meeting (Luxembourg)

  6. Business Case • Reference implementation platform- all LIRICS defined ISO standards will be defined on the basis of web services in order to support distributed NLP resources- support « try before you buy » paradigm which enables NLP companies to give temporary access and charge on per-usage basis- provide open-source reference implementation of wrappers for lexicons, morphological analysers, syntactic parsers and semantic annotators Kick off meeting (Luxembourg)

  7. Participants & roles: consortium The LIRICS consortium bring together leading experts in the field of Natural Language Processing via participation in ISO committees • INRIA (F) specialist in standardisation • DFKI (D) sp. in morpho-syntax & syntax processing • USFD (UK) provider of the GATE open source platform • CNR-ILC (I) sp. in language resources • UW (A) sp. in terminology management & language codes • Util (NL) sp. in computational semantics • MPI (D) sp. in meta-data • Unis (UK) sp. in language resources • IULA-UPF (E) sp. in lexicons & grammars Kick off meeting (Luxembourg)

  8. Participants & roles: Ind. Ad. Gr. • For the standards to have impacts, LIRICS will ensure their usability by consulting with a group of industrial users • The Industry advisory group will be consulted to identify priorities and requirements • At present, 21 members:► NLP solution providers like Systran, Sinequa, Temis or Morphologic► Lexicon publishers like Longman-Pearson► End users like EADS-CCR, British Telecom, Telefonica Invest-Des. or HP • Membership will be expanded Kick off meeting (Luxembourg)

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