Tribune News Service
Patiala, May 5

Punjabi University’s language resources prepared by officials of its Department of Computer Science have now been registered with the ISLR number.

The International Standard Language Resource (ISLR) number is a unique identifier of language resources that uses a standardised nomenclature for proper references and their usage in applications of research and development projects.

What is ISLR number

The International Standard Language Resource (ISLR) number is a unique identifier of language resources that uses a standardised nomenclature for proper references and their usage in applications of research and development projects.

Dr Vishal Goyal, professor, Department of Computer Science, said, “A lot of research is carried out in language technologies, but problems arise as most NLPs do not openly share data and as such researchers are forced to start from zero with the creation of dataset, which has already been developed by others.”

“To overcome this problem, we have decided to keep sharing our resources with the NLP community so that they can work further rather than starting from the same point. Considering this, we decided to register our language resources developed so far with unique identification number,” he added.

Research scholars in the department had created 14 lakh English-Punjabi parallel corpus, 14 lakh English-Punjabi comparable corpus, 10 lakh English-Punjabi code mix social media tweets, 2.5 lakh English and Punjabi multi-word expressions (MWEs) among others, he said.

The registration helped in proper recognition of resources with references for their usage in research projects, product evaluation and benchmark as well as in documents and scientific papers, he added.