[open-linguistics] Linguistic relevance

Fri Jan 23 11:23:01 UTC 2015

Hi Kristian,

actually, I meant that to be an "OR", precisely for the reason that an
associated publication would be too strict. However, an "associated
publication" may also be a paper using a resource provided by a third
party, so "non-academic" resources would be included as soon as someone in
the community refers to them.

By the second criterion, I tried to include results of (unpublished)
master's theses, etc., or anything provided by companies or more
IT-/NLP-oriented colleagues. But again, this leaves room for
interpretation, so an alternative formulation would be better. Any idea?

Best,
Christian

2015-01-23 9:39 GMT+01:00 Kristian Kankainen <kristian at eki.ee>:

> Hello!
>
> Excuse my intrusion into the debate without introducing myself. As I work
> at the Institute of Estonian Language, I feel included in Christian's
> second point. But I want to argue against the importance of having an
> associated publication.
>
> I think there exists many datasets without a publication that can be even
> more linguistically motivated than those having a publication in accord.
> They often convey more pragmatic semantics in a dictionary-like sense (thus
> exposing mainly "is_a" kind of relations. This kind of datasets are often
> developed inside a working group or individual person that might not match
> the criteria of specialization in linguistics etc, but they are done for
> solving the need of a "look-up function". This functionality might very
> well be general enough to be used by others. I think this "usability by
> others" factor could be said to convey a linguistic relevance, if we look
> at them as linguistic signs as agreed-upon but arbitrary :-).
>
> Maybe I just got the logic wrong behind Christian's list: a logical AND
> for the two points feels for me too strict. But also, a logical OR feels
> too lax (for a country with 1.5 million people, specialization is
> necessarily a shallower concept than in a big country).
>
> Best wishes
> Kristian Kankainen
>
>
> 22.01.2015 14:37, Christian Chiarcos kirjutas:
>
>> What are your ideas about the following:
>> - having an associated publication at a linguistic or CL venue (LSA,
>> DGfS, ALT, ...; LREC, ACL, COLING, ...) or in a corresponding journal or
>> series (LREJ, TACL, ...), or
>> - being developed at a (university or company) department or by an
>> individual specialized in linguistics, philology, lexicography, natural
>> language processing, or localization.
>>
>
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