TY - GEN
T1 - Classifying standard linguistic processing functionalities based on fundamental data operation types
AU - Hayashi, Yoshihiko
AU - Narawa, Chiharu
N1 - Funding Information:
The presented work was largely supported by the Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - It is often argued that a set of standard linguistic processing functionalities should be identified, with each of them given a formal specification. We would benefit from the formal specifications; for example, the semi-automated composition of a complex language processing workflow could be enabled in due time. This paper extracts a standard set of linguistic processing functionalities and tries to classify them formally. To do this, we first investigated prominent types of language Web services/linguistic processors by surveying a Web-based language service infrastructure and published NLP toolkits. We next induced a set of standard linguistic processing functionalities by carefully investigating each of the linguistic processor types. The standard linguistic processing functionalities was then characterized by the input/output data types, as well as the required data operation types, which were also derived from the investigation. As a result, we came up with an ontological depiction that classifies linguistic processors and linguistic processing functionalities with respect to the fundamental data operation types. We argue that such an ontological depiction can explicitly describe the functional aspects of a linguistic processing functionality.
AB - It is often argued that a set of standard linguistic processing functionalities should be identified, with each of them given a formal specification. We would benefit from the formal specifications; for example, the semi-automated composition of a complex language processing workflow could be enabled in due time. This paper extracts a standard set of linguistic processing functionalities and tries to classify them formally. To do this, we first investigated prominent types of language Web services/linguistic processors by surveying a Web-based language service infrastructure and published NLP toolkits. We next induced a set of standard linguistic processing functionalities by carefully investigating each of the linguistic processor types. The standard linguistic processing functionalities was then characterized by the input/output data types, as well as the required data operation types, which were also derived from the investigation. As a result, we came up with an ontological depiction that classifies linguistic processors and linguistic processing functionalities with respect to the fundamental data operation types. We argue that such an ontological depiction can explicitly describe the functional aspects of a linguistic processing functionality.
KW - Language processing functionality
KW - Language service
KW - Language service ontology
KW - Linguistic data type
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946014425
T3 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
SP - 1169
EP - 1173
BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
A2 - Dogan, Mehmet Ugur
A2 - Mariani, Joseph
A2 - Moreno, Asuncion
A2 - Goggi, Sara
A2 - Choukri, Khalid
A2 - Calzolari, Nicoletta
A2 - Odijk, Jan
A2 - Declerck, Thierry
A2 - Maegaard, Bente
A2 - Piperidis, Stelios
A2 - Mazo, Helene
A2 - Hamon, Olivier
PB - European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
T2 - 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
Y2 - 21 May 2012 through 27 May 2012
ER -