Language resource
In linguistics and language technology, a language resource is a "[composition] of linguistic material used in the construction, improvement and/or evaluation of language processing applications, (...) in language and language-mediated research studies and applications." According to Bird & Simons (2003), this includes In a narrower sense, language resource is specifically applied to resources that are available in "digital form," and then, "encompassing (a) data sets (textual, multimodal/multimedia and lexical data, grammars, language models, etc.) in machine readable form, and (b) tools/technologies/services used for their processing and management". Typology. As of May 2020, no widely used standard  typology of language resources has been established (current proposals include the LREMap, METASHARE, and, for data, the ). Important classes of language resources include Language resource publication, dissemination and creation. A major concern of the language resource community has been to develop infrastructures and platforms to present, discuss and disseminate language resources. Selected contributions in this regard include: As for the development of standards and best practices for language resources, these are subject of several community groups and standardization efforts, including