More Data and Tools for More Languages and Research Areas: A Progress Report on LDC Activities

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006)

Abstract

This presentation reports on recent progress the Linguistic Data Consortium has made in addressing the needs of multiple research communities by collecting, annotating and distributing, simplifying access and developing standards and tools. Specifically, it describes new trends in publication, a sample of recent projects and significant improvements to LDC Online that improve access to LDC data especially for those with limited computing support.