/Press Release - Immediate
Paris, France, November 2, 2015
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*The Resource Management Agency (RMA), an important language resource
player in South Africa, adopts the International Standard Language
Resource Number (ISLRN) initiative*
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The RMA is now a certified provider to the ISLRN system. This means that
the RMA can apply for ISLRNs on behalf of the developers of the data
that is managed and distributed via the RMA website. The RMA has already
submitted 117 language resources to the ISLRN, including language
resources for the 11 official languages of South Africa. These include
text and speech resources such as text corpora (annotated, genre
classification, parallel), translation memories, custom dictionaries for
government domain, compound semantic and splitting datasets, frequency
word lists, speech corpora, and pronunciation dictionaries. The
meta-information for these language resources is also available on the
ISLRN website with a broad international audience.
Background
As part of an international effort to document and archive the various
language resource development efforts around the world, a system of
assigning ISLRNs was established in November 2013. The ISLRN is a unique
“persistent identifier” to be assigned to each language resource. The
establishment of ISLRNs was a major step in the networked and shared
world of human language technologies. Unique resources must be
identified as they are, and meta-catalogues require a common
identification format to manage data correctly. Therefore, language
resources should carry identical identification schemes independent of
their representations, whatever their types and wherever their physical
locations (on hard drives, internet or intranet) (http://islrn.org/).
About RMA: The Department of Arts and Culture of South Africa
established the RMA to manage and distribute reusable text and speech
resources developed by the National Centre for Human Language Technology
from a centralised location. As many of the South African languages are
deemed resource-scarce, the RMA aspires to make data resources for these
languages more readily available.
To find out more about RMA, please visit the RMA website:
http://rma.nwu.ac.za <http://rma.nwu.ac.za/>.
About ELRA: The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a
non-profit-making organisation founded by the European Commission in
1995, with the mission of providing a clearing house for language
resources and promoting human language technologies.
To find out more about ELRA, please visit the website: http://www.elra.info
Contact: i...@elda.org
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