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15 Years of Language Resource Creation and Sharing: a Progress Report on LDC Activities
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008)
Abstract
This paper, the fifth in a series of biennial progress reports, reviews the activities of the Linguistic Data Consortium with particular emphasis on general trends in the language resource landscape and on changes that distinguish the two years since LDCs last report at LREC from the preceding 8 years. After providing a perspective on the current landscape of language resources, the paper goes on to describe our vision of the role of LDC within the research communities it serves before sketching briefly specific publications and resources creations projects that have been the focus our attention since the last report.