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A Three-Dimensional Paradigm for Conceptually Scoped Language Technology

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Language technology is used increasingly for providing speech- and text-based interfaces to existing applications and services. However, a number of characteristics of today’s language technology make it hard to be adopted by non-linguistically skilled developers. In this chapter, we propose a paradigm that conceptually scopes the coverage of the language technology that is adopted into existing applications. It is backed by a three-dimensional approach to modularization of resources that decouples the domains, tasks and languages that need to be supported. We present an implementation of this paradigm based on the ontology-lexicon format lemon and Grammatical Framework (GF), and show how the proposed modularity facilitates low impact adoption, through sharing and reuse of technology components and lexical resources on the web.

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    https://sites.google.com/site/portdial2/.

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    https://bitbucket.org/chru/lemongrass.

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    http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially funded in the EU projects PortDial (FP7-296170), Monnet (FP7-248458) and MOLTO (FP7-247914). We also want to thank the organizers of the Dagstuhl seminar, where many of the ideas in this chapter took form, especially Philipp Cimiano for numerous invaluable discussions. We are also indebted to Aarne Ranta, Jouri Fledderman and Frank Smit.

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    Jeroen van Grondelle

  2. CITEC, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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van Grondelle, J., Unger, C. (2014). A Three-Dimensional Paradigm for Conceptually Scoped Language Technology. In: Buitelaar, P., Cimiano, P. (eds) Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43585-4_5

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