Mission

The first international conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources will bring together designers, developers, and users of corpora and other language resources from across the globe, in order to:

1. assess the state of the art in methods and schemes for resource representation, annotation, interlinkage, and access;
2. consider the requirements for (and obstacles to) multi-lingual and multi-modal interoperability and standardization;
3. consider the requirements for achieving interoperability among multi-lingual resources of different types, including corpora, lexicons, knowledge bases, ontologies, etc., as well as the systems and frameworks that enable their creation and exploitation;
4. consider the ways in which web technologies are and may be used to enable resource interoperability and inter-linkage;
5. work toward the definition of best practice guidelines and standards for language resource representation, annotation, and use that will enable interoperability;
6. consider means to map or harmonize linguistic information in order to better enable cross-lingual studies;
7. provide direction for developers of resources for less widely used languages;
8. promote collaboration and cooperation among developers of language resources across the globe;
9. consider ways to provide central or distributed access to language resources developed throughout the world.

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