The objective of work on the Supplement is to take into account a number of application oriented recent developments in sub-areas of the field of Spoken Language Technologies, as a specific area within Human Language Technologies. For this purpose, these Work Packages will be referred to as the `EAGLES Spoken Language Working Group (SLWG)', continuing the nomenclature used in EAGLES Phase I.
The immediate material objective of work on spoken language terminology for the Supplement is to integrate terminologies from the participant disciplines from phonetics and linguistics to speech engineering, and for this purpose to specify and produce a new type of terminological model, the terminological hypergraph as a basis for an operational terminological hyperlexicon. The terminological hyperlexicon is the basic structure for generating specific presentational formats such as a conventional paper glossary version, as well as a hypertext with interactive search functions. The need for a principled integrative concept of this kind is motivated entirely by application-oriented considerations, though it is clearly very close to contemporary research in lexicological theory and lexicographic methodology, and embodies several years of experience in the construction of task-oriented hyperlexica in nationally funded research and development and basic research projects.
The scope of the Supplement to the Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems[Dafydd Gibbon(1997)] is as follows:
The responsibles for these contributions are detailed in the minutes and reports of the EAGLES Phase II Spoken Language Group (Work Packages 4, 5 and 6). This document represents the first interim draft deliverable which deals with Spoken Language terminology, due at the end of November 1997. The interim draft deliverable is constituted by the present document.
The aim of the document is to operationalise discussion on the standardisation of terminology for the development of spoken language systems by providing a termonological concept, and a state-of-the-art interactive concept for terminology consensus formation in the form of the EAGLET database on the EAGLES Phase II SLWG telecooperation site.