SLR Validation: Present State of Affairs and Prospects

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000)

Abstract

This paper deals with the quality evaluation (validation) and improvement of Spoken Language Resources (SLR). We discuss a number of aspects of SLR validation. We review the work done so far in this field. The most important validation check points and our view on their rank order are listed. We propose a strategy for validation and improvement of SLR that is presently considered at the European Language Resources Association, ELRA. And finally, we show some of our future plans in these directions.