On Achieving and Evaluating Language-Independence in NLP Page 1 Linguistic Issues in
Language Technology LiLT Submitted, October 2011 On Achieving and Evaluating …

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of corpora and lexical resources available for
Turkish. We review a broad range of resources, focusing on the ones that are publicly …

This paper explores the ways in which the field of natural language processing (NLP) can
and does benefit from work in linguistic typology. I describe the recent increase in interest in …

Recent studies have shown the potential benefits of leveraging resources for resource-rich
languages to build tools for similar, but resource-poor languages. We examine what …

In this paper we explore the potential for identifying computationally relevant typological
features from a multilingual corpus of language data built from readily available language …

We propose to bring together two kinds of linguistic resources—interlinear glossed text (IGT)
and a language-independent precision grammar resource—to automatically create …

Abstract Interlinear Glossed Text (IGT) is a well established data format within philology and
the structural and generative fields of linguistics. The best known format for an IGT is the one …

Abstract The GOLD Community of Practice is proposed as a model for linking on-line
linguistic data to an ontology. The key components of the model include the linguistic data …

This paper explores the potential for annotating and enriching data for low-density
languages via the alignment and projection of syntactic structure from parsed data for …

As the arm of NLP technologies extends beyond a small core of languages, techniques for
working with instances of language data across hundreds to thousands of languages may …