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about a Language Grand Challenge Problem (3)
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Nicolas Balacheff
100 days ago |
One of the outcomes of the recent Stellar London Big meeting is the Language Grand Challenge Problem. This post and two others to follow are opportunities to discuss it. Please feel free to comment and suggest. Everything will be considered for the final version...
(3) Time frame, evaluation and funding
The time-frame to verify the success of such an initiative is of an order of 2 to 3 years to establish the instruments, at least 5 years to verify the adoption and the sustainability.
The measurement of the progress and success is twofold: on the one hand, the multilingual thesaurus and dictionary must be largely populated by the best specialists and covering largely the scientific and technical discourse of the TEL research area, on the other have indicators of adoption must be found; it could be witnessed by an analysis of the evolution of the discourse in the conference papers (several hundreds each year) which must become more rigorous (what does not mean static), and of the evolution of the feeling one has of the communication with stakeholders.
This activity is peripheral to the normal academic activity. It has a cost that the current project can afford and which then can be afforded by a consortium of scientific societies and stakeholders groups interested in the outcome. The sustainability can be ensured by an little effort and financial support of the scientific community -- no more that the effort and cost required to referee conferences and journal. It will just part of the normal activity, especially because the evolution of a thesaurus and a dictionary is actually rather slow.
Comments? Suggestions?
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