Reflections on 30 Years of Language Resource Development and Sharing

Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman, Sunghye Cho, Stephanie Strassel, James Fiumara, Jonathan Wright

Abstract
The Linguistic Data Consortium was founded in 1992 to solve the problem that limitations in access to shareable data was impeding progress in Human Language Technology research and development. At the time, DARPA had adopted the common task research management paradigm to impose additional rigor on their programs by also providing shared objectives, data and evaluation methods. Early successes underscored the promise of this paradigm but also the need for a standing infrastructure to host and distribute the shared data. During LDC’s initial five year grant, it became clear that the demand for linguistic data could not easily be met by the existing providers and that a dedicated data center could add capacity first for data collection and shortly thereafter for annotation. The expanding purview required expansions of LDC’s technical infrastructure including systems support and software development. An open question for the center would be its role in other kinds of research beyond data development. Over its 30 years history, LDC has performed multiple roles ranging from neutral, independent data provider to multisite programs, to creator of exploratory data in tight collaboration with system developers, to research group focused on data intensive investigations.
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2022.lrec-1.57
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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European Language Resources Association
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543–550
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Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman, Sunghye Cho, Stephanie Strassel, James Fiumara, and Jonathan Wright. 2022. Reflections on 30 Years of Language Resource Development and Sharing. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 543–550, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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