Acronyms

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List of Commonly Used Terms and Acronyms 

Acronym

Expansion (Translated)

URL

Anéla

Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics

http://www.anela.nl/

ANWB

Dutch automobile association

http://www.anwb.nl/

API

Application Programming Interface

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API

BG

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

http://portal.beeldengeluid.nl/

BIGGrid

Dutch eScience Grid

http://www.biggrid.nl/

BLARK

Basic Language Resource Kit

http://medar.info/The_Nemlar_Project/Publications/BLARK-final_190906.pdf

CATCH

NWO Programme Continuous Access To Cultural Heritage

http://www.nwo.nl/catch

CELEX

Dutch Centre for Lexical Information

http://www.ru.nl/celex/

CESSDA

Council of European Social Science Data Archives

http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/home.html

CHIP

Project in the CATCH programme

http://www.nwo.nl/catch/chip

CHOICE

Project in the CATCH programme

http://www.nwo.nl/catch/choice

CLARIN

The CLARIN infrastructure

http://www.clarin.eu/

CLARIN-EU

The European CLARIN enterprise

http://www.clarin.eu/

CLARIN-NL

The Netherlands national project for CLARIN

http://www.hum.uu.nl/clarin-nl/

CLARIN-prep

The currently running European CLARIN preparatory phase project

http://www.clarin.eu

CLCG

Center for Language and Cognition Groningen

http://www.rug.nl/let/onderzoek/onderzoekinstituten/clcg/

CLIN

Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (local conference)

http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/Clin/

CLS

Centre for Language Studies

http://www.ru.nl/cls/

CLST

Centre for Language and Speech Technology

http://www.ru.nl/clst/

CMDI

CLARIN component metadata infrastructure

 

COGIS

Dutch expert centre on the (psycho)social effects of war, persecution, aggression and violence

http://www.cogis.nl/Index.aspx

COREX

Corpus Exploitation Tool

http://lands.let.kun.nl/cgn/doc_English/topics/corex/info.htm

CPG

Centre for Parliamentary History

http://www.ru.nl/cpg/

DAM-LR

Distributed Access Management for Language Resources

http://www.mpi.nl/DAM-LR/

DANS

Data Archiving and Networking Services

http://www.dans.knaw.nl/

DARIAH

Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

http://www.dariah.eu/

DBNL

Digital Library for Dutch Literature

http://www.dbnl.org/

DCR

Data Category Registry

 

DOBES

Documentation of Endangered Languages

http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/

EAGLES

Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards

http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES96/edintro/node1.html

EB

Executive Board

http://www.hum.uu.nl/clarin-nl/CLN_exboard.html

ELAN

EUDICO Linguistic Annotator (Annotation Tool)

http://www.let.ru.nl/sign-lang/ECHO/ELAN/ELAN_intro.html

ERC

European Research Council

http://erc.europa.eu/

ESF EURYI

European Science Foundation European Young Investigator Awards

http://www.esf.org/activities/euryi.html

ESFRI

European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures

http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/

FIDLR

Framework for the Interoperability of Dutch Language Resources

www.meertens.knaw.nl/fidlr

FIDLR-Start

Project to prepare the FIDLR project proposal

www.meertens.knaw.nl/fidlr

Firefox

Firefox (a web browser)

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ie.html

FlareNet

Fostering Language Resources Network, European Network project.

http://www.ilc.cnr.it/flarenet/

FP7

Framework Programme 7 (European Union)

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/

GIS

Geographic Information System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS

HLT

Human Language Technologies

 

HSS

Humanities and Social Sciences

 

IAP

International Advisory Panel

http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/j.odijk/clarin-nl/iap.html

ICT

Information and Communication Technology

 

ID

Identifier

 

IIAV

International Information Centre and Archive for the Women's Movement

http://www.iiav.nl/

IISG

International Institute for Social History

http://www.iisg.nl/

IMDI

ISLE MetaData Initiative

http://www.mpi.nl/IMDI/

IMIX

NWO programme for Interactive Multimodal Information eXtraction

http://www.nwo.nl/imix

INL

Institute for Dutch Lexicology

http://www.inl.nl/

INTERA

Integrated European language data Repository Area

http://www.mpi.nl/INTERA/

Interop

NSF Community-Based Data Interoperability Networks Programme

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=502112

IOP

Innovation-targeted Research Programmes

http://www.senternovem.nl/iop/

IPR

Intellectual Property Rights

 

IS

Infrastructure Specialist

 

ISLA

Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam

http://www.science.uva.nl/research/isla/

ISLE

International Standards for Language Engineering

http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES/isle/ISLE_Home_Page.htm

ISO

International Standards Organisation

http://www.iso.org/

ISO TC37/SC4

ISO Subcommittee focusing on Language Resource Management

http://www.tc37sc4.org/

ISOcat

Project to implement the ISO DCR standard

http://www.isocat.org/

KB

National Library of the Netherlands

http://www.kb.nl/index-en.html

KDC

Catholic Documentation Centre

http://www.ru.nl/kdc/

KNAW

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

http://www.knaw.nl/

LIRICS

Linguistic Infrastructure for Interoperable Resources and Systems

http://lirics.loria.fr/

LMF

Lexical Markup Framework

http://www.lexicalmarkupframework.org/

LOT

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

http://wwwlot.let.uu.nl/

LRT

Language Resources and Technologies

 

LST

Language and Speech Technology

 

LSTP

Language and Speech Technology Provider

 

LT

Language Technology

 

METS

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

MPG

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

http://www.mpg.de/

MPI

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

http://www.mpi.nl/

MS IE

Microsoft Internet Explorer (a web browser)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx

MuSeUM

Project in the CATCH programme

http://www.nwo.nl/catch/museum

NAP

National Advisory Panel

http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/j.odijk/clarin-nl/nap.html

NIOD

Netherlands Institute for War Documentation

http://www.niod.nl/

NWO

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/SPPD_5R2QE7_Eng

NWO-Groot

NWO Infrastructure Investment Fund

http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_4YJD5U

OAI

Open Archives Initiative

http://www.openarchives.org/

OLAC

Open Languages Archive Community

http://www.language-archives.org/

PC

Programme Committee

 

PCM

large publisher in the Netherlands (Perscombinatie Meulenhoff & Co)

http://www.pcmuitgevers.nl

PID

Persistent Identifier

http://www.persistent-identifier.de/english/204-examples.php

PMH

Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

POS

Part of Speech

 

R&D

Research and Development

 

RU

Radboud University Nijmegen

http://www.ru.nl/

SAMPA

Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/

SARA

Foundation Academic Computing Centre Amsterdam

http://www.sara.nl/

SO

Support Office

 

SOA

Service Oriented Architecture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture

SPEX

Speech Processing Expertise Centre (RU, Nijmegen)

http://www.spex.nl/

SPIN

 

 

STEVIN

Dutch-Flemish programme for realizing the BLARK and HLT research for Dutch

http://taalunieversum.org/taal/technologie/stevin/

STITCH

Project in the CATCH programme

http://www.nwo.nl/catch/stitch

SURFnet

University Network Services Organisation

http://www.surfnet.nl/

TDS

Typological Database System

http://languagelink.let.uu.nl/tds/index.html

TEI

Text Encoding Initiative

http://www.tei-c.org/

TERENA

Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association

http://www.terena.org/

UIL-OTS

Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS

http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

UT

University of Twente

http://www.utwente.nl/

UvA

University of Amsterdam

http://www.english.uva.nl/

VSNU

Association of Collaborating Dutch Universities

http://www.vsnu.nl/

VU

VU University of Amsterdam

http://www.vu.nl/

VVV

Touristic Office

http://www.vvv.nl/

WAYF

Where Are You From

http://www.switch.ch/aai/support/tools/wayf.html