LIRICS: Linguistic infrastructure for interoperable resources and systems

LIRICS is a research project in the EU eContent programme with a consortium that brings together leading experts in the field of NLP and related standards development via participation in ISO committee and National Standardisation committees. The Consortium has strong Industry support and involvement through the 21 members of the LIRICS Industry Advisory Group.

LIRICS aims are to:

• Provide ISO ratified standards for language technology to enable the exchange and reuse of multilingual language resources
• Facilitate the implementation of these standards for end-users by providing an open-source implementation platform, related web services and test suites building on legacy formats, tools and data
• Gain full industry support and input to the standards development via the Industry Advisory group and demonstration workshops
• Provide a pay-per-use business model for use by Industry and, in particular SMEs, validated during the project for the benefit of all actors in the content and language industries.