Denise DiPersio

Intellectual Property Rights Management with Web Service Grids

This paper enumerates the ways in which configurations of web services may complicate issues of licensing language resources, whether data or tools. It details specific licensing challenges within the context of the US Language Application (LAPPS) Grid, sketches a solution under development and highlights ways in which that approach may be extended for other web service configurations.

Linguistic Fieldwork and IRB Human Subjects Protocols

Linguistic fieldwork generally requires an approved protocol from an Institutional Review Board (IRB). A carefully-prepared protocol – in addition to being a useful planning tool – is likely to secure IRB approval since most fieldwork plans are well within the purview of federal human subjects regulations. This paper reviews the development of the current IRB system and its shortcomings with respect to social science research generally. The notion of a ‘fieldwork problem’ and IRB reviews is then explored with a discussion of the areas that should be addressed with particular care in fieldwork proposals. This is followed by a description of the Linguistic Data Consortiums IRB experience as an example of how linguists can approach the IRB process for a protocol that meets federal requirements and serves research goals. The final section contains a list of IRB resources for linguists available online.

A License Scheme for a Global Federated Language Service Infrastructure

Language service infrastructures are an efficient means for hosting tools and services and processing data, but they can cause complications for licensing language resources. This paper describes the proposed license scheme for the US Language Application (LAPPS) Grid – an open grid incorporating diverse tools, services and resources – and suggests that the LAPPS Grid license approach can be extended to a global federated language service infrastructure.