The LRE map. Harmonising community descriptions of resources
Résumé
Accurate and reliable documentation of Language Resources is an undisputable need: documentation is the gateway to discovery of
Language Resources, a necessary step towards promoting the data economy. Language resources that are not documented virtually do
not exist: for this reason every initiative able to collect and harmonise metadata about resources represents a valuable opportunity for
the NLP community. In this paper we describe the LRE Map, reporting statistics on resources associated with LREC2012 papers and
providing comparisons with LREC2010 data. The LRE Map, jointly launched by FLaReNet and ELRA in conjunction with the LREC
2010 conference, is an instrument for enhancing availability of information about resources, either new or already existing ones,
reinforcing and facilitating the use of standards in the community. The LRE Map web interface provides the possibility of searching
according to a fixed set of metadata and to view the details of extracted resources. The LRE Map is continuing to collect bottom-up
input about resources from authors of other conferences through standard submission process. This will help broadening the notion of
language resources and attract to the field neighboring disciplines that so far have been only marginally involved by the standard
notion of language resources.