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Initiatives, Tendencies and Driving Forces for a “Lexical Web” as Part of a “Language Infrastructure”

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Large-Scale Knowledge Resources. Construction and Application (LKR 2008)

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While highlighting the infrastructural role of Language Resources (LR) I sketch my perception of the current situation in the LR field. I underline some of the priority areas of concern today with respect to implementing an open Language Infrastructure, and specifically what we could call a “Lexical Web”. My objective is to show that it is imperative that there is an underlying global strategy behind the set of initiatives which are/can be launched in Europe and world-wide, and that a global vision and cooperation among different communities is necessary to achieve more coherent and useful results. I end up mentioning two new European initiatives that go on this direction and promise to be influential in shaping the future of the LR area.

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Calzolari, N. (2008). Initiatives, Tendencies and Driving Forces for a “Lexical Web” as Part of a “Language Infrastructure”. In: Tokunaga, T., Ortega, A. (eds) Large-Scale Knowledge Resources. Construction and Application. LKR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4938. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78159-2_10

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