META-SHARE ontology

The name of the scheme used to identify a funder

A string used to uniquely identify an organization

The name of the scheme used to identify an organization

A string (e.g., PID, DOI, internal to an organization, etc.) used to uniquely identify a person

The name of the scheme used to identify a person

The name of the scheme used to identify a resource

A formal statement indicative of licensing terms for the use of a resource (e.g., open access, free to read, etc.); its semantics should be clear, preferably formally expressed and documented at a URL

A string used to uniquely identify an access rights statement according to a specific scheme

The name of the scheme according to which an access rights statement is assigned to a distribution

A person, organization or group that participates in an event or process

Any activity where a language resource has been used (e.g., in a project, in an experiment, for a publication, etc.)

The physical address of an organization, group or person expressed in the form of distinct elements (street address, zip code, city, etc.)

Information the organization that a person works for (e.g., a company) or is affiliated with (e.g., university, etc.) and the data that are specific to this relation (e.g., position, professional contact information, etc.)

The age group to which the participant belongs

A type of element that can be annotated and may differ depending on the annotation level

The part of a corpus that contains annotations (interpretative linguistic information grounded in a knowledge resource that is added manually or automatically to a text or corpus respectively)

Any software program (or group of programs seen as a whole) intended for the end-user and addressing one or multiple related user needs.

Indication of the intended audience size of a multimedia resource

The format of the audio part of a multimedia resource

A classification of audio parts based on extra-linguistic and internal linguistic criteria and reflected on the audio style, form or content

A classification scheme devised for audio genres by an organization/authority

A string used to uniquely identify an audio genre according to a specific classification scheme

The audio quality measures included in audio format

A type of content included in a language resource pertaining to the audio level

Availability status of the resource; conditionsOfUse can be further used to indicate the specific terms of availability

Type of item that is represented in the n-gram resource

The body parts visible in the video or image part of the resource

The byte order of 2 or more bytes sample

The type of transducers through which the data is captured

The type of the capturing environment in terms of complexity

The name of the character encoding used in the resource or accepted by the tool/service

A type of classifying (arranging in groups/categories) language resources

Scheme used for the classification of a language resource based on various criteria (e.g., domains, text types, genres, etc.)

The colour space for the video and image part(s) of a resource

A classification into types for lexical lexicon that can be used with the grammar being described

A piece of software typically intended for a specific technical purpose, such as a particular implementation of a part-of-speech tagger (e.g TreeTagger), a tree parsing program (e.g., mstparser), etc. It is wrapped in a standard way within a particular component-oriented framework such as UIMA, GATE, etc. or as a specific type of web service.

The name of the compression applied

A condition imposed via a specified licence on the use of a language resource (e.g., non-commercial use, no derivatives, etc.)

A more detailed account of the linguistic information contained in the lexical/conceptual resource

Classification of the conversation included in a multimedia resource based on the number of participants

A structured collection of pieces of data (textual, audio, video, multimodal/multimedia, etc.) typically of considerable size and selected according to criteria external to the data (e.g., size, type of language, type of text producers or expected audience, etc.) to represent as comprehensively as possible the object of study

The part of a corpus (or whole corpus) that consists of audio segments

The part of a corpus (or whole corpus) that consists of images (e.g., g a corpus of photographs and their captions)

A part/segment of a corpus based on its media type classification

A classification of corpora into types (used for descriptive reasons)

The part of a corpus (or whole corpus) that consists of sets of textual representations of measurements and observations linked to sensorimotor recordings

The part of a corpus (or a whole corpus) that consists of textual segments (e.g., a corpus of publications, or transcriptions of an oral corpus, or subtitles, etc.)

The part of a corpus (or whole corpus) that consists of video files (e.g., a corpus of film documentaries)

The cost for accessing a resource formally desribed as a set of amount and currency unit

The name of a country preferrably according to ISO 639

Any system of money used in a particular country

A resource composed of linguistic material used to assist and augment language processing applications, but also, in a broader sense, in language and language-mediated research studies and applications; examples include data sets (textual, multimodal/multimedia and lexical data, grammars, language models, etc.) in machine readable form

Any form with which a dataset is distributed, such as a downloadable form in a specific format (e.g., spreadsheet, plain text, etc.) or an API with which it can be accessed

The form (medium/channel) used for distributing a language resource consisting of data (e.g., a corpus, a lexicon, etc.)

The (type of) entity that is being described by a metadata record

Any form with which a language resource is distributed; for software, this can refer to web services, executable or code files, etc.; for datasets, it can be a downloadable form in a specific format (e.g., spreadsheet, plain text, etc.) or an API with which it can be accessed

A feature that can be used for describing distinct distributable forms of audio resources/parts

Τhe form used for distributing (delivering or providing access) to the resource

A feature that can be used for describing distinct distributable forms of image resources/parts

A feature that can be used for describing distinct distributable forms of text resources/parts

A feature that can be used for describing distinct distributable forms of numerical text resources/parts

A feature that can be used for describing distinct distributable forms of video resources/parts

Section of a larger organization (e.g., school, faculty, department of a university, department or branch of a company, etc.)

A controlled vocabulary used for classifying divisions

A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that is primarily intended for reading

A string (e.g., PID, DOI, internal to an organization, etc.) used to uniquely identify a document (mainly intended for published documents)

A scheme according to which an identifier is assigned by the authority that issues it (e.g., DOI, PubMed Central, etc.) specifically for publications

A classification vocabulary for documents (e.g., article, book, etc.)

The type of the documentation vis-a-vis its relation with the language resource (e.g., general publication, user manual, etc.)

A particular field of thought, activity, or interest related to a language resource, organization or person activities, etc.

health, law, banking, ...

A classification scheme devised by an authority for domains

A string used to uniquely identify a domain according to a specific classification scheme

The time that an audio or video recording, etc. lasts

A unit for measuring duration of audio / video parts

Element represented in the video part of a resource

The linguistic level of analysis a lexical/conceptual resource or language description caters for as represented in its contents

Each of the procedures and outcomes followed for evaluating the performance and other features of a tool/service

The criterion of the evaluation of a tool

The evaluation level

The evaluation measure (human or automatic)

Indicates the type of evaluation performed on a tool/service

The non-textual information contained in a lexical/conceptual resouce (e.g., images, videos, audios, etc.); it can be used as an alternative to fully describing them as a proper part of the resource when they are not as important as the textual part (e.g., cases of a dictionary with images attached to some lemmas)

The unit on which the extratextual information in a lexical/conceptual resource is attached

The implementation framework used for developing and running a tool/service

A classification of the funding of a project with regard to the source of the funds

A way of classifying a language resource with regard to the style, form and content

A set of rules governing what strings are valid or allowable in a language or text [https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/grammar]

An indication of the grammatical phenomena covered by the grammar

A set of persons related to some aspect of a language resource, that do not have a legal status (e.g., a group of software developers working on the same software)

A string used to uniquely identify a group

Whether the group of participants contains persons with hearing impairments

The format used for the image part of a resource

A category of images characterized by a particular style, form, or content according to a specific classification scheme

A classification scheme devised by an authority for image genres

A string used to uniquely identify an image genre according to a specific classification scheme

The level of conversational interaction between speakers (for audio component) or participants (for video component)

A classification of lexical/conceptual resources into types (used for descriptive reasons)

Identifies the task performed by the language description

A string (e.g., PID, DOI, internal to an organization, etc.) used to uniquely identify a language resource

The name of the scheme according to which the LRT identifier is assigned by the authority that issues it (e.g., DOI, ISLRN, etc.)

A resource that describes a language or some aspect(s) of a language via a systematic documentation of linguistic structures

The part (or whole set) of a language description that consists of images (e.g., a grammar part with photos or images for sign languages)

A part/segment of a language description based on its media type classification

The textual part (or whole set) of a language description

The part (or whole set) of a language description that consists of videos (e.g., a grammar part with videos for sign languages)

A statistical language model is a probability distribution over sequences of words. Given such a sequence, say of length m, it assigns a probability P (w1, ..., wm) to the whole sequence. [from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_model)]

A resource composed of linguistic material used in the construction, improvement and/or evaluation of language processing applications, but also, in a broader sense, in language and language-mediated research studies and applications; the term is used with a broader meaning, encompassing (a) data sets (textual, multimodal/multimedia and lexical data, grammars, language models, etc.) in machine readable form, and (b) tools/technologies/services used for their processing and management.

A particular linguistic system used in a specific region or by a social group

A classification for language varieties

A type of content included in a language resource pertaining to the lemma

A resource organised on the basis of lexical or conceptual entries (lexical items, terms, concepts, etc.) with their supplementary information (e.g., grammatical, semantic, statistical information, etc.)

The part (or whole set of) a lexical/conceptual resource that consists of audio elements (e.g., a set of audio files for a lexicon)

A part (or whole set of) a lexical/conceptual resource that consists of images (e.g., a set of images used for a lexicon)

A part/segment of a lexical/conceptual resource based on its media type classification

A part (or whole set) of a lexical/conceptual resource that consists of textual elements

The part (or whole set) of a lexical/conceptual resource that consists of videos (e.g., a set of video files for the lexicon of a sign language)

A classification scheme for licences

The name of the scheme according to which a category is assigned to a licence

A string used to uniquely identify a licence

The name of the scheme according to which an identifier is assigned to a licence by the authority that issues it

A legal document (licence or terms of use/service) with which the language resource is distributed

Classification of a resource (part) based on the number of languages it includes

The links between different media parts of a multimedia resource

The model artifact that is created through a training process involving an ML algorithm (that is, the learning algorithm) and the training data to learn from.

A part of a language resource based on the media type it belongs to (e.g., text, audio, video parts of a corpus or lexicon)

A classification of language resource parts based on the physical medium they are available in (e.g., text, video, audio)

An institution with members that can benefit from specific conditions on the use of a resource (e.g. discount, unlimited access, etc.)

A set of formalized structured information used to describe the contents, structure, function, etc., of an entity, usually according to a specific set of rules (metadata schema)

A string (e.g., PID, DOI, internal to an organization, etc.) used to uniquely identify a metadata record

The name of the scheme according to which the metadata record identifier is assigned by the authority that issues it (e.g., DOI, URL, etc.)

A formal set of metadata elements organized in a specific way

The metric used for the evaluation of the tool/service

A classification of modalities represented in the resource or processed by a tool/service

A type of content included in a language resource pertaining to the morphological level

A classification of a bi/multilingual resource (part) into parallel, comparable or mixed

A language model consisting of n-grams, i.e., specific sequences of a number of words

The level of naturality for multimodal/multimedia resources

A set of algorithms, modeled loosely after the human brain, designed to recognize patterns [adapted from https://skymind.ai/wiki/neural-network]

The level of background noise

A non-speech element that maybe included in the audio corpus or lexical/conceptual resource

The operating system on which the software is compatible with

A classification vocabulary for organizations as legal entities

A vocabulary for classifying organizations according to their role in relation to Language Technology

The relation of the language of the group of participants with respect to the acquisition stage

A a special kind of variable in computer programming language that is used to pass information between functions or procedures [from https://www.techopedia.com/definition/3725/parameter-param]

A specific (not yet standardised) typing system for parameters (e.g., whether it's boolean, string, integer, a document, mapping, etc.)

A person that has participated in the recording of the audio, video, sensorimotor (textNumerical) part of the resource

The performance indicator used in the evaluation of a software given in the form of the metric used and reporting on the measure and unit of measure for this

A human being

Policy types that a tool/service has with respect to the annotation types included in the annotated resource that it takes as input (i.e. whether it keeps, modifies or drops them in the output resource)

Classification of the mode of operation applied when processing a resource

A set of requirements posed on the resource that is input for processing by a tool/service

The type of the resource that a tool/service takes as input or produces as output

A set of operations undertaken as a whole by an individual or organization and related to some aspect of the lifecycle of the language resource (e.g., funding, deployment, etc.)