TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards language service creation and customization for low-resource languages
AU - Lin, Donghui
AU - Murakami, Yohei
AU - Ishida, Toru
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was partially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (17H00759, 2017-2020), a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (18H03341, 2018-2020), and a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) (17H04706, 2017–2020) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the authors.
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - The most challenging issue with low-resource languages is the difficulty of obtaining enough language resources. In this paper, we propose a language service framework for low-resource languages that enables the automatic creation and customization of new resources from existing ones. To achieve this goal, we first introduce a service-oriented language infrastructure, the Language Grid; it realizes new language services by supporting the sharing and combining of language resources. We then show the applicability of the Language Grid to low-resource languages. Furthermore, we describe how we can now realize the automation and customization of language services. Finally, we illustrate our design concept by detailing a case study of automating and customizing bilingual dictionary induction for low-resource Turkic languages and Indonesian ethnic languages.
AB - The most challenging issue with low-resource languages is the difficulty of obtaining enough language resources. In this paper, we propose a language service framework for low-resource languages that enables the automatic creation and customization of new resources from existing ones. To achieve this goal, we first introduce a service-oriented language infrastructure, the Language Grid; it realizes new language services by supporting the sharing and combining of language resources. We then show the applicability of the Language Grid to low-resource languages. Furthermore, we describe how we can now realize the automation and customization of language services. Finally, we illustrate our design concept by detailing a case study of automating and customizing bilingual dictionary induction for low-resource Turkic languages and Indonesian ethnic languages.
KW - Bilingual dictionary
KW - Language resources
KW - Language service infrastructure
KW - Low-resource languages
KW - The language grid
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U2 - 10.3390/info11020067
DO - 10.3390/info11020067
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081113999
VL - 11
JO - Information (Switzerland)
JF - Information (Switzerland)
SN - 2078-2489
IS - 2
M1 - 67
ER -