Search Results for author: Jonathan Wright

Found 16 papers, 0 papers with code

Reflections on 30 Years of Language Resource Development and Sharing

no code implementations LREC 2022 Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman, Sunghye Cho, Stephanie Strassel, James Fiumara, Jonathan Wright

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.

Management Open-Ended Question Answering

The NIEUW Project: Developing Language Resources through Novel Incentives

no code implementations NIDCP (LREC) 2022 James Fiumara, Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman, Chris Callison-Burch, Jonathan Wright, Robert Parker

NIEUW leverages the power of novel incentives to elicit linguistic data and annotations from a wide variety of contributors including citizen scientists, game players, and language students and professionals.

LanguageARC: Developing Language Resources Through Citizen Linguistics

no code implementations LREC 2020 James Fiumara, Christopher Cieri, Jonathan Wright, Mark Liberman

Like other Citizen Science platforms and projects, LanguageARC harnesses the power and efforts of volunteers who are motivated by the incentives of contributing to science, learning and discovery, and belonging to a community dedicated to social improvement.

A Progress Report on Activities at the Linguistic Data Consortium Benefitting the LREC Community

no code implementations LREC 2020 Christopher Cieri, James Fiumara, Stephanie Strassel, Jonathan Wright, Denise DiPersio, Mark Liberman

This latest in a series of Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) progress reports to the LREC community does not describe any single language resource, evaluation campaign or technology but sketches the activities, since the last report, of a data center devoted to supporting the work of LREC attendees among other research communities.

Call My Net 2: A New Resource for Speaker Recognition

no code implementations LREC 2020 Karen Jones, Stephanie Strassel, Kevin Walker, Jonathan Wright

Speakers used a variety of handsets, including landline and mobile devices, and made VoIP calls from tablets or computers.

Speaker Recognition

Multi-language Speech Collection for NIST LRE

no code implementations LREC 2016 Karen Jones, Stephanie Strassel, Kevin Walker, David Graff, Jonathan Wright

The Multi-language Speech (MLS) Corpus supports NIST{'}s Language Recognition Evaluation series by providing new conversational telephone speech and broadcast narrowband data in 20 languages/dialects.

RESTful Annotation and Efficient Collaboration

no code implementations LREC 2014 Jonathan Wright

As linguistic collection and annotation scale up and collaboration across sites increases, novel technologies are necessary to support projects.

New Directions for Language Resource Development and Distribution

no code implementations LREC 2014 Christopher Cieri, Denise DiPersio, Mark Liberman, Andrea Mazzucchi, Stephanie Strassel, Jonathan Wright

Despite the growth in the number of linguistic data centers around the world, their accomplishments and expansions and the advances they have help enable, the language resources that exist are a small fraction of those required to meet the goals of Human Language Technologies (HLT) for the worldÂ’s languages and the promises they offer: broad access to knowledge, direct communication across language boundaries and engagement in a global community.

Transfer Learning

The Language Application Grid

no code implementations LREC 2014 Nancy Ide, James Pustejovsky, Christopher Cieri, Eric Nyberg, Di Wang, Keith Suderman, Marc Verhagen, Jonathan Wright

The Language Application (LAPPS) Grid project is establishing a framework that enables language service discovery, composition, and reuse and promotes sustainability, manageability, usability, and interoperability of natural language Processing (NLP) components.

Machine Translation Question Answering +1

Annotation Trees: LDC's customizable, extensible, scalable, annotation infrastructure

no code implementations LREC 2012 Jonathan Wright, Kira Griffitt, Joe Ellis, Stephanie Strassel, Brendan Callahan

In recent months, LDC has developed a web-based annotation infrastructure centered around a tree model of annotations and a Ruby on Rails application called the LDC User Interface (LUI).

Reading Comprehension

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