SLR Validation: Current Trends and Developments
Henk van den Heuvel, Dorota J. Iskra, Eric P. Sanders, Folkert de Vriend · 2004
This paper deals with the quality evaluation (validation) of Spoken Language Resources (SLR).The current situation in terms of relevant validation criteria and procedures is briefly presented.Next, a number of validation issues related to new data formats (XMLbased annotations, UTF-16 encoding) are discussed.Further, new validation cycles that were introduced in a series of new projects like SpeeCon and OrienTel are addressed: prompt sheet validation, lexicon validation and pre-release validation.Finally, SPEX's current and future activities as ELRA's validation centre for SLR are outlined.