final programme workshop distributing accessing linguistic resources 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 workshop take place afternoon scheduled lunch break 13 20 14 40 organizers yorick wilks wim peters hamish cunningham remi zajac papers presentations 15 minutes 5 minutes discussion 14 45 15 05 distributed thesaurus storage access cultural domain application boutsis b georgantopoulos piperidis institute language speech processing athens 15 05 15 25 new model language resource access distribution w peters h cunningham wilks c mccauley university sheffield 15 25 15 45 reuse integration nlp components calypso architecture r zajac new mexico state university 15 45 16 05 corpus based research using internet h brugman russel p wittenburg r piepenbrock max planck institute psycholinguistics nijmegen 16 05 16 30 cue corpus access tool mason university birmingham 16 30 17 00 coffee break 17 00 17 20 linguistic research utilizing edr electronic dictionary linguistic resource ogino edr japan 17 20 19 00 room available 20 00 panel discussion distributing accessing linguistic resources panel participants khalid choukri eduard hovy judith klavans yorick wilks antonio zampolli 14 00 14 45 16 30 17 00 poster presentations presentation posters happen 2 sessions end lunch afternoon coffee posters also display workshop tractor telri research archive computational tools resources r krishnamurthy 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 algortihmic 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