An Architecture of resolving a multiple link path in a standoff-style data format to enhance the mobility of language resources

Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), pages 2865–2873 Marseille, 20-25 June 2022 © European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0 2865 An Architecture of resolving a multiple link path in a standoff-style data format to enhance the mobility of language resources Kazushi Ohya Tsurumi University Tsurumi 2-1-3, Tsurumi-ku Yokohama, Japan oya-k@tsurumi-u.ac.jp Abstract The present data formats proposed by authentic organizations are based on a so-called standoff-style data format in XML, which represents a semantic data model through an instance structure and a link structure. However, this type of data formats intended to enhance the power of representation of an XML format injures the mobility of data because an abstract data structure denoted by multiple link paths is hard to be converted into other data structures. This difficulty causes a problem in the reuse of data to convert into other data formats especially in a personal data management environment. In this paper, in order to compensate for the drawback, we propose a new concept of transforming a link structure to an instance structure on a new marked-up scheme. This approach to language data brings a new architecture of language data management to realize a personal data management environment in daily and long-life use. 1. Background Socially and diachronically sharing language resources is the ultimate goal in an activity of language doc- umentation, To do so, we have engaged in sharing applications or using shared data formats. As the former way, ToolBox(Summer Institute of Linguis- tics, 2021b), FLEx(Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2021a), ELAN(Max Planck Institution, 2021), Au- dacity(Audacity, 2021), Praat(Boersman and Weenink, 2011), and other kinds of applications such as text edi- tors and tabular software have been shared by language researchers. As the latter way, many authentic stan- dards have been proposed(Ide and Pustejovsky, 2017), e.g. TEI (Text Encoding Initiative, 1994), CES (Ide, 1998), Annotation Graph (Bird and Liberman, 1999), ISO Feature Structure(FS) (ISO, 2006) (ISO, 2011), ISO LAF(ISO, 2012) and so on. However, in terms of computer science, sharing applications is not a good way for sharing data in a long span of time. Thus, data for- mat sharing is the best way for data preservation. The data formats proposed from the authorities adopt a so- called standoff-style data format, that is, contain multi- ple link paths to represent a semantic model over an in- stance structure in the XML format. For example, TEI, CES, ISO FS and LAF, all the formats use a link struc- ture to represent an alternative semantic structure that cannot be represented by a scheme of an XML data, or an instance structure. This kind of strategy aiming at a syntax with the intensification of expressiveness is good for global-scale data repositories because it ensures data conversion from a variety of applications or formats used in a personal environment into the format used in the archive system. However, from the viewpoint of an in- dividual language researcher, this expressiveness causes harm to the data conversion from the data …

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