Language Infrastructure and Information Analysis Technology: Fundamental Language Resources

Abstract

Fundamental language resources are classified into natural language processing tools and natural language data, which are used as building blocks for natural language information processing systems such as question answering systems and information analysis systems. Various kinds of natural language information processing systems generally have necessary fundamental language resources in common. However, some fundamental language resources are difficult to construct for some organizations due to limited computational capability, limited manpower, budget constraint, or time constraint. Thus, it is important to construct and publish such fundamental language resources in order for the research community to make steady progress. We, Information Analysis Laboratory members, have constructed and published many fundamental language resources that are precise and have wide-coverage, some of which are difficult to construct for some organizations, with a large-scale high-performance computing environment, many researchers who are acquainted with natural language processing, and many richly-experienced linguistic data annotators. In this paper, we present fundamental language resources that we have constructed, including those that will be released in the near future. We do not present natural language processing tools that have described in 5-4 of this special issue.