LIRICS addresses the needs of today's information and communication society where globalisation and localization necessitate multilingual communication creating an increasing need for new standardization as well as urgent recognition of existing de facto standards and their transformation into de jure International Standards.LIRICS thus aims to:
- Provide ISO ratified standards for language technology to enable the exchange and reuse of multilingual language resources;
- Facilitate the implementation of these standards for end-users by providing an open-source implementation platform, related web services and test suites building on legacy formats, tools and data;
- Gain full industry support and input to the standards development via the Industry Advisory group and demonstration workshops
- Provide a pay-per-use business model for use by Industry and in particular SMEs validated during the project for the benefit of all actors in the content and language industries
Partners
NRIA: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Co-ordinator): France, USFD: The University of Sheffield (United Kingdom), CNR-ILC: Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche - Instituto di Linguistica Computazionale (Italia), UW: Universitat Wien (Austria), UTiL: Tilburg University (Netherlands) , MPI: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPI for Psycholinguistics) (Deutschland), UniS: The University of Surrey (United Kingdom), IULA-UPF: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
