Towards a Linguist's Workbench Supporting eScience Methods

Abstract

The domain of language resources is fragmented in many dimensions. Institutional fragmentation is currently being addressed by Grid projects, which will allow access to resources across institutional boundaries. While technical encoding and structural/format differences constitute significant challenges,, this paper focuses on the problem of the terminological differences encountered when researchers access resources from different projects and creators. We outline two projects that employ a bottom-up approach, and discuss potential extensions towards an eventual Service Oriented Architecture that will bring together all the different components required to overcome the various fragmentation boundaries and open the road to an eHumanities environment.