Infrastructures in Taiwan

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Infrastructures in Taiwan and for the Chinese
Languages Chu-Ren Huang Institute of Linguistics
Academia Sinica churen_at_sinica.edu.tw ACL 2000
WORKSHOP Infrastructures for Global
Collaboration Saturday, October 7, Hong Kong
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Types of Infrastructures Sharable resources (for
Chinese computational linguistics) Mechanisms for
international collaboration Mechanisms for
scholarly exchange
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Host Institutes -The Association for
Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
Processing (ACLCLP, a.k.a. ROCLING) -Academia
Sinica -National Science Council (NSC)
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Sharable Resources for Chinese Computational
Linguistics Corpora Lexicons Procedures http//ro
cling.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ROCLING/
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Sharable Resources for Chinese Computational
Linguistics--Corpora -Academia Sinica Balanced
Corpus of Mandarin Chinese (Sinica
Corpus) -Sinica Treebank -Standard Segmentation
Corpus -ROCLING Corpus -Mandarin-Across-Taiwan
(MAT) Speech Database
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Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Mandarin
Chinese (Sinica Corpus) 5 million words,
segmented and tagged Direct WWW
Access -http//www.sinica.edu.tw/tibe/2-words/mod
ern-words/index.html OR -http//www.sinica.edu.tw
/ftms-bin/kiwi.sh License Information -http//roc
ling.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ROCLING/corpus98/sinicor_E.
htm
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Sinica Treebank 1.0 38,725 Trees 239,532
Words Direct WWW Access (1000 sample
trees) http//godel.iis.sinica.edu.tw/CKIP/trees10
00.htm License Information http//rocling.iis.sin
ica.edu.tw/ROCLING/Treebank/Treebank-E.htm
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Mandarin-Across-Taiwan (MAT) Speech Database
Speech files are collected through telephone
networks. The content Includes spontaneous speech
(short answering statements) and read speech
(numbers, Mandarin syllables, words of 2 to 4
syllables, phonetically balanced
sentences). MAT-160 (160 speakers) MAT-2000
http//rocling.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ROCLING/MAT/inde
x_cf.htm
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Sharable Resources for Chinese Computational
Linguistics-Procedures Segmentation Standard for
Chinese Language Processing Segmentation
Standard http//godel.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ROCLING/ju
huashu1.htm Standard Segmentation Corpus (2
million words, segmented) http//godel.iis.sinica.
edu.tw/ROCLING/corpus98/segcorp_E.htm Standard
Segmentation Lexicon (42,138 entries, w/
frequency) http//godel.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ROCLING/
corpus98/segdic_E.htm Segmentation Program (free
download) http//godel.iis.sinica.edu.tw/CKIP/ws/
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Sharable Resources in Languages Other than
Modern Mandarin Classical Chinese
Corpora http//www.sinica.edu.tw/tibe/2-words/old
-words/index.html Corpus of Formosan Austronesian
Languages Under construction, part of the
National Digital Archive Initiative Lexical
Databases of other Sino-Tibetan and
Tibeto-Burmese Languages
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Mechanisms for International Collaboration
Major Sponsors of International Collaboration
Involving Taiwan --The Chiang Ching-kuo
Foundation for International Scholarly
Exchange http//www.cckf.org http//www.cckf.org.
tw --The National Science Council --Academia
Sinica
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Synchronic and Diachronic Chinese Corpora Three
Projects Sponsored by the CCK Foundation
(1990-1995) Chu-Ren Huang, Keh-jiann Chen and
Pei-chuan Wei, Academia Sinica Paul Thompson,
SOAS, University of London Chaofen
Sun, Stanford University
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Mechanisms for Scholarly Exchange and
Collaboration Department of International
Programs, NSC http//www.nsc.gov.tw/int/2_coopera
tion/index_02.html Canada NRC France CNRS
Japan EAACST Germany DFG, DAAD,
DKFG Netherlands NWO, IIAS USA NSF, NIH UK
Royal Society of London, ETC
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A NSF/NSC International Joint Project NSF Asian
Language Digital Library Project Ching-Chih
Chen, Simmons College NSC International Digital
Library Collaborative Projects --Lexicon-based
Knowledge Linking -Approaches Towards a WordNet
Infrastructure for Multilingual Digital Library
Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica --Linguistic
Technology and Resources for English-Chinese
Bilingual Information System Hsin-Hsi Chen,
National Taiwan University
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Mechanisms for International Collaboration-Bilater
al Projects -Case by Case Negotiation Academia
Sinica vs. Hong Kong Chinese University, LDC,
Stanford, UCSB etc.
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Mechanisms for Scholarly Exchange-Conferences ROCL
ING (annually since 1988) PACLIC Pacific Asia
Conference on Language Information and
Computation (regional conference involving Hong
Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan)
http//www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/paclic15 COLING2002 ht
tp//www.COLING2002.sinica.edu.tw
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Mechanisms for Scholarly Exchange- Exchange
Scholars Academia Sinica and EHESS Yearly
exchange Academia Sinica and University of
Pennsylvania (under negotiation) NSC and CNRS,
NSC and NWO Cognitive Science
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Mechanisms for Scholarly Exchange- Post-doctoral
Fellows -Academia Sinica Post-doctoral
Fellowships Application through Project PIs or
directly by applicants -NSC Post-doctoral
Fellowships
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Mechanisms for Scholarly Exchange-International
Students Computational Linguistics and Chinese
Language Processing An international graduate
(PhD) program (Proposal under review) Visiting
Students Internships