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Parallel corpora of Orwell’s 1984 annotated in CES with morpho-syntactic
information in ten Middle and Eastern European languages. (http://nl.ijs.si/
ME/V2/)
• Analysis:
Delphin (lgs. > 5); HPSG-grammars:
HPSG-Grammars for NLP-applications, in addition various tools for running and
developing HPSG resources. (http://www.delph-in.net/)
AGFL (lgs.> 4); parser and grammars:
A description of Natural Languages with context-free grammars. (http://www.
cs.ru.nl/agfl/)
• Generation:
KPML (lgs.> 10); text generation system:
Systemic-functional grammars for natural language generation.
(http://purl.org/net/kpml)
• Machine Translation:
OpenLogos (lgs. > 4); Machine Translation software and data:
An open Source version of the Logos Machine Translation System for new
language pairs to be added. (http://logos-os.dfki.de/).
3. Strategies and Recommendations for Developers
If there is no pool of free software data that matches your own data, you should
try the following: 1) Convert your data into free software so that you have a greater
chance that others will copy and take care of it; and, 2) Modify your data so that it
can be pooled with other data. This might imply only a minor change in the format of
the data that can be done automatically by a script. Alternatively, create a community
that will, in the longterm, create a pool. In general, this implies that you separate the
procedural components (tagger, spelling checker, parser, etc.) from the static linguistic
data; make the procedural components freely available; and, describe the format of
the static linguistic data. An example might well be Kevin Scannell’s CRUBADAN, a
web-crawler for the construction of word lists for ISPELL. The author succeeded in
creating a community around his tool that develops spellcheckers for more than thirty
Small Languages (cf. http://borel.slu.edu/crubadan). Through this split of declarative
(linguistic) components on the one hand, and procedural components (programs) on
the other, many pools come with adequate tools to create and maintain the data.
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