text_combined: distributing accessing linguistic resources call participation distributing accessing linguistic resources may 27th workshop part first international conference language resources evaluation university granada may 26th 30th 1998 see http ceres ugr es rubio elra html details register workshop discuss ways increase efficacy linguistic resource distribution programmatic access work towards definition new method tasks based distributed processing objectoriented modelling deployment www organizers yorick wilks wim peters hamish cunningham remi zajac provisional programme panel discussion distributing accessing linguistic resources khalid choukri eduard hovy judith klavans yorick wilks antonio zampolli full papers common formats mt user dictionaries environments exchanging part aamt activities kamei e itoh fujii hirai saitoh takahashi hiyama k muraki nec toshiba sharp fujitsu kyushu matsushita japan distributed thesaurus storage access cultural domain application boutsis b georgantopoulos piperidis institute language speech processing athens linguistic research utilizing edr electronic dictionary linguistic resource ogino edr japan corpus based research using internet broeder h brugman russel p wittenburg r piepenbrock max planck institute psycholinguistics celex centre lexical expertise nijmegen architecture distributed nlp objects r zajac new mexico state university new model language resource access distribution w peters h cunningham wilks c mccauley university sheffield posters tractor telri research archive computational tools resources r krishnamurthy university birmingham cue corpus access tool mason university birmingham web surfing lexicon cabrero vilares l docampo sotelo ramon pineiro research centre universities coruna santiago exploring distributed mt streiter schmidt wigger u reuther c pease iai saarbruecken proposal line lexical database p cassidy micra inc workshop scope aims general reuse nlp data resources lexicons corpora exceeded algorithmic resources lemmatisers parsers however still two barriers data resource reuse 1 resource representation syntax corresponding programmatic access mode e g sql celex c prolog wordnet sgml bnc 2 resources must generally installed locally usable course precisely happens operating systems supported etc varies case case consequences 1 although resources share structure common lexicons organised around words example commonality wasted comes using new resource developer learn everything afresh time work seeks investigate exploit commonalities resources e g link several lexicons ontology first build layer access routines top resources example wish taskbased evaluation lexicons measuring relative performance information extraction system different instantiations lexical resource might end writing code translate several different resources sql sgml consequence 2 way try buy way examine data resource suitability needs licencing correspondingly way resource provider expose limitted access products advertising purposes gain revenue piecemeal supply sections resource workshop discuss ways overcome barriers proposers discuss new method distributing accessing language resources involving development common programmatic model various resources types implemented corba idl java along distributed server nonlocal access model designed part gate project general architecture text engineering http www dcs shef ac uk research groups nlp gate goes provisional title active creole server creole collection reusable objects language engineering currently creole supports algorithmic objects extended data objects common model language data resources would set inheritance hierarchies making forest set graphs top hierarchies would general abstractions resources e g lexicons words leaves would data items specific individual resources programmatic access would available levels allowing developer select appropriate level commonality application note although exciting element work could provide algorithms dynamically merge common resources suggesting initially develop anything substantively new simply improve access existing resources new standards initiative way build previous initiatives course production common model fully expressed subtleties resources would large undertaking believe done incrementally useful results stage early versions stop decomposing object structure resources fairly high level leaving developer handle data structures native resources leaves forest still substantial benefit uniform access higher level strucures program committee yorick wilks hamish cunningham wim peters remi zajac roberta catizone paola velardi maria teresa pazienza roberto basili bran boguraev sergei nirenburg james pustejowsky ralph grishman christiane fellbaum