Standartization in designing research and application infrastructure for Lithuanian language technologies

Abstract

The paper overviews information infrastructure standardization problems, as well as particular problems of Human Language Technologies (HLT) in Lithuania. The main focus of the paper is on the standardization of HLT infrastructure in Lithuania, whereby emerging European infrastructures are introduced, main language resources and their standards are analysed, guidelines to the roadmap for Lithuanian HLT development is presented. A pan-European infrastructure CLARIN is named as the most promising of emerging infrastructures, its recommendations of standards for resource description, resource access and metadata harvesting are summarized. A pilot experiment of setting up a CLARIN metadata providing centre is presented