NLP Software Registry (Thierry Declerck)
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Actual status of the ACL Natural Software Registry 
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The fourth edition of the ACL Natural Language Registry (NLSR) 
has been released this year (see http://registry.dfki.de/)
This version offers among others a new functionality: a database has been
developed which allows menu-guided standard queries for all the
specifications of the products as they are listed in the Registry. So the visitor
will have two types of access to the information stored in the NLSR: browsing
through the structured list of products or by asking for specific information. 

Another novelty concerns the classification of the products, which in
the former editions of the NLSR was no longer representing with accuracy the
state of the art of the Human Language Technology (HLT).  Our
taxonomy is largely based on the book "State of the Art in Language
Technology" (ed. by G.B. Varile and A. Zampolli, Linguistica Computazionale,
volume XII - XIII). The classification can be enriched by the
products submitted and/or by comments done by the visitors.

For the time being around 130 products are listed, all of those having been 
checked on their actuality.

Ongoing activities
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- We are preparing a "call for submission" to be delivered by the ACL mailing 
  list and other relevant lists (like COLIBRI).
- We are checking the ACL catalog of Web-based NLP/CL resources and looking 
  for redundancies or inconsistencies  with the listing in the Registry.
- We are looking for a closer cooperation and interlinking with initiatives 
  concerned with the listing and organisation of NLP/CL resources (like TELRI, 
  Elsnet, LDC, ELRA, national initiatives, the CLASS support project of the EC).
- We will look for extending and improving the classification work done 
  so far (taking into account more recent "Surveys" of the State of the Art 
  in the HLT domain.)

Contact: registry@dfki.de
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