The role of Internet in creating, financing and integrating language resources.
Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Rene Prillop, Epp Ehasalu · 1998
The article describes the manifold influence of Internet on cre-ating and using language resources: language resources that are made available via Internet tend to be in a standard format; it is relatively easy to get sponsor money for creating language re-sources if they are intended to be available in the Internet; third parties often put material on-line which appears to be a language resource without the creators being aware of it; completely new applications, taking advantage of on-line language resources, become available (like translation aids); the freedom to use language resources in Internet is less hindered by the copyright problems. At present the possibilities of Internet in using language resources have not been fully realized. Internet is mostly used as a medium for transporting language resources from one local point to another. At the same time, Internet is an environment allowing smooth integration of language resources, e.g. various on-line dictionaries via their query forms; text documents with on-line language resources via hyperlinks; text corpora with dictionaries via hyperlinks. The existing technol-ogy allows for more applications than are available at the mo-ment; it also allows for more sophisticated applications.