Resources for speech research: present and future infrastructure needs
Lou Boves, Rolf Carlson, Erhard Hinrichs, David House, Steven Krauwer, Lothar Lemnitzer, Martti Vainio, Peter Wittenburg · 2009
This paper introduces the EU-FP7 project CLARIN, a joint effort of over 150 institutions in Europe, aimed at the creation of a sustainable language resources and technology infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences research community. The paper briefly introduces the vision behind the project and how it relates to speech research with a focus on the contributions that CLARIN can and will make to research in spoken language processing. Index Terms: speech research, resources, standardization