1. LIRICS mid-term review 1 WP5 Adam Funk a.funk@dcs.shef.ac.uk University of Sheffield 23rd May 2006

2. LIRICS mid-term review2 Acknowledgements Niraj Aswani Gil Francopolou Marc Kemps-Snijders Julien Nioche Peter Wittenburg

3. LIRICS mid-term review3 Service-oriented architecture Operations are carried out by exchanging messages according to web service standards (XML, SOAP) Benefits: interoperability between domains, applications, users composability encapsulation and abstraction (users don’t worry about the details)

4. LIRICS mid-term review4 Selling points Standardizing concepts through the Data Category Registry allows easy cross-resource comparisons of annotations and lexical entries interaction between them, e.g. using annotated content as examples for lexical entries tools to annotate semi-automatically using information from various lexica

5. LIRICS mid-term review5 T5.1: Architecture D5.1.A: API for DCRegistry v2, due M12, done D5.1.B: API for LMF v1, due M12, done D5.1.C: API for MAF v1, due M12, done APIs: XML-based language-independent for web services

6. LIRICS mid-term review6 T5.2: Ref. implementations D5.2.A: DCR ref. imp. v1, due M12, done D5.2.C: MAF ref. imp. V1, due M24, available now for English and French

7. LIRICS mid-term review7 T5.3: Integration platform D5.3.A & B: platform software and documentation v1, due M18 MAF client available now

8. LIRICS mid-term review8 T5.4: Data Category Usage Platform D5.4.A & B: software and documentation v1, due M18

9. LIRICS mid-term review9 Demonstration An example MAF client connecting to reference implementations of MAF services for English and Bulgarian