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	"abstract": "We present a grand challenge to build a corpus that will include all of the world's languages, in a consistent structure that permits large-scale cross-linguistic processing, enabling the study of universal linguistics. The focal data types, bilingual texts and lexicons, relate each language to one of a set of reference languages. We propose that the ability to train systems to translate into and out of a given language be the yardstick for determining when we have successfully captured a language. We call on the computational linguistics community to begin work on this Universal Corpus, pursuing the many strands of activity described here, as their contribution to the global effort to document the world's linguistic heritage before more languages fall silent.",
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	"text": "We present a grand challenge to build a corpus that will include all of the world's languages, in a consistent structure that permits large-scale cross-linguistic processing, enabling the study of universal linguistics. The focal data types, bilingual texts and lexicons, relate each language to one of a set of reference languages. We propose that the ability to train systems to translate into and out of a given language be the yardstick for determining when we have successfully captured a language. We call on the computational linguistics community to begin work on this Universal Corpus, pursuing the many strands of activity described here, as their contribution to the global effort to document the world's linguistic heritage before more languages fall silent.",
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	"text": "The grand aim of linguistics is the construction of a universal theory of human language. To a computational linguist, it seems obvious that the first step is to collect significant amounts of primary data for a large variety of languages. Ideally, we would like a complete digitization of every human language: a Universal Corpus.",
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	"text": "If we are ever to construct such a corpus, it must be now. With the current rate of language loss, we have only a small window of opportunity before the data is gone forever. Linguistics may be unique among the sciences in the crisis it faces. The next generation will forgive us for the most egregious shortcomings in theory construction and technology development, but they will not forgive us if we fail to preserve vanishing primary language data in a form that enables future research. The scope of the task is enormous. At present,",
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	"text": "we have non-negligible quantities of machinereadable data for only about 20-30 of the world's 6,900 languages (Maxwell and Hughes, 2006) .",
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	"text": "Linguistics as a field is awake to the crisis. There has been a tremendous upsurge of interest in documentary linguistics, the field concerned with the the \"creation, annotation, preservation, and dissemination of transparent records of a language\" (Woodbury, 2010). However, documentary linguistics alone is not equal to the task. For example, no million-word machine-readable corpus exists for any endangered language, even though such a quantity would be necessary for wide-ranging investigation of the language once no speakers are available. The chances of constructing large-scale resources will be greatly improved if computational linguists contribute their expertise. This collaboration between linguists and computational linguists will extend beyond the construction of the Universal Corpus to its exploitation for both theoretical and technological ends. We envisage a new paradigm of universal linguistics, in which grammars of individual languages are built from the ground up, combining expert manual effort with the power tools of probabilistic language models and grammatical inference. A universal grammar captures redundancies which exist across languages, constituting a \"universal linguistic prior,\" and enabling us to identify the distinctive properties of specific languages and families. The linguistic prior and regularities due to common descent enable a new economy of scale for technology development: cross-linguistic triangulation can improve performance while reducing per-language data requirements.",
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	"text": "Our aim in the present paper is to move beyond generalities to a concrete plan of attack, and to challenge the field to a communal effort to create a Universal Corpus of the world's languages, in consistent machine-readable format, permitting large-scale cross-linguistic processing.",
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	"text": "Although language endangerment provides urgency, the corpus is not intended primarily as a Noah's Ark for languages. The aims go beyond the current crisis: we wish to support crosslinguistic research and technology development at the largest scale. There are existing collections that contain multiple languages, but it is rare to have consistent formats and annotation across languages, and few such datasets contain more than a dozen or so languages.",
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	"text": "If we think of a multi-lingual corpus as consisting of an array of items, with columns representing languages and rows representing resource types, the usual focus is on \"vertical\" processing. Our particular concern, by contrast, is \"horizontal\" processing that cuts indiscriminately across languages. Hence we require an unusual degree of consistency across languages.",
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	"text": "The kind of processing we wish to enable is much like the large-scale systematic research that motivated the Human Genome Project.",
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	"text": "One of the greatest impacts of having the sequence may well be in enabling an entirely new approach to biological research. In the past, researchers studied one or a few genes at a time. With whole-genome sequences . . . they can approach questions systematically and on a grand scale. They can study . . . how tens of thousands of genes and proteins work together in interconnected networks to orchestrate the chemistry of life. (Human Genome Project, 2007) We wish to make it possible to investigate human language equally systematically and on an equally grand scale: a Human Linguome Project, as it were, though we have chosen the \"Human Language Project\" as a more inviting title for the undertaking. The product is a Universal Corpus, 1 in two senses of universal: in the sense of including (ultimately) all the world's languages, and in the sense of enabling software and processing methods that are language-universal.",
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	"text": "However, we do not aim for a collection that is universal in the sense of encompassing all language documentation efforts. Our goal is the construction of a specific resource, albeit a very large 1 http://universalcorpus.org/ resource. We contrast the proposed effort with general efforts to develop open resources, standards, and best practices. We do not aim to be allinclusive. The project does require large-scale collaboration, and a task definition that is simple and compelling enough to achieve buy-in from a large number of data providers. But we do not need and do not attempt to create consensus across the entire community. (Although one can hope that what proves successful for a project of this scale will provide a good foundation for future standards.)",
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	"text": "Moreover, we do not aim to collect data merely in the vague hope that it will prove useful. Although we strive for maximum generality, we also propose a specific driving \"use case,\" namely, machine translation (MT), (Hutchins and Somers, 1992; Koehn, 2010) . The corpus provides a testing ground for the development of MT system-construction methods that are dramatically \"leaner\" in their resource requirements, and which take advantage of cross-linguistic bootstrapping. The large engineering question is how one can turn the size of the task-constructing MT systems for all the world's languages simultaneously-to one's advantage, and thereby consume dramatically less data per language.",
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	"text": "The choice of MT as the use case is also driven by scientific considerations. To explain, we require a bit of preamble.",
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	"text": "We aim for a digitization of each human language. What exactly does it mean to digitize an entire language? It is natural to think in terms of replicating the body of resources available for well-documented languages, and the pre-eminent resource for any language is a treebank. Producing a treebank involves a staggering amount of manual effort. It is also notoriously difficult to obtain agreement about how parse trees should be defined in one language, much less in many languages simultaneously. The idea of producing treebanks for 6,900 languages is quixotic, to put it mildly. But is a treebank actually necessary?",
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	"text": "Let us suppose that the purpose of a parse tree is to mediate interpretation. A treebank, arguably, represents a theoretical hypothesis about how interpretations could be constructed; the primary data is actually the interpretations themselves. This suggests that we annotate sentences with representations of meanings instead of syntactic structures. Now that seems to take us out of the frying pan into the fire. If obtaining consen-sus on parse trees is difficult, obtaining consensus on meaning representations is impossible. However, if the language under consideration is anything other than English, then a translation into English (or some other reference language) is for most purposes a perfectly adequate meaning representation. That is, we view machine translation as an approximation to language understanding.",
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	"text": "Here is another way to put it. One measure of adequacy of a language digitization is the ability of a human-already fluent in a reference language-to acquire fluency in the digitized language using only archived material. Now it would be even better if we could use a language digitization to construct an artificial speaker of the language. Importantly, we do not need to solve the AI problem: the speaker need not decide what to say, only how to translate from meanings to sentences of the language, and from sentences back to meanings. Taking sentences in a reference language as the meaning representation, we arrive back at machine translation as the measure of success. In short, we have successfully captured a language if we can translate into and out of the language.",
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	"text": "The key resource that should be built for each language, then, is a collection of primary texts with translations into a reference language. \"Primary text\" includes both written documents and transcriptions of recordings. Large volumes of primary texts will be useful even without translation for such tasks as language modeling and unsupervised learning of morphology. Thus, we anticipate that the corpus will have the usual \"pyramidal\" structure, starting from a base layer of unannotated text, some portion of which is translated into a reference language at the document level to make the next layer. Note that, for maximally authentic primary texts, we assume the direction of translation will normally be from primary text to reference language, not the other way around.",
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	"text": "In the last and smallest layer, morphology is annotated. This supports the development of morphological analyzers, to preprocess primary texts to identify morpheme boundaries and recognize allomorphs, reducing the amount of data required for training an MT system. This most-refined target annotation corresponds to the interlinear glossed texts that are the de facto standard of annotation in the documentary linguistics community.",
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	"text": "Each of these layers-primary text, translations, alignments, and morphological glosses-seems to be an unavoidable piece of the overall solution. The fact that these layers will exist in diminishing quantity is also unavoidable. However, there is an important consequence: the primary texts will be permanently subject to new translation initiatives, which themselves will be subject to new alignment and glossing initiatives, in which each step is an instance of semisupervised learning (Abney, 2007) . As time passes, our ability to enhance the quantity and quality of the annotations will only increase, thanks to effective combinations of automatic, professional, and crowd-sourced effort.",
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	"text": "Universality. Covering as many languages as possible is the first priority. Progress will be gauged against concrete goals for numbers of languages, data per language, and coverage of language families (Whalen and Simons, 2009) .",
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	"text": "Community effort. We cannot expect a single organization to assemble a resource on this scale. It will be necessary to get community buy-in, and many motivated volunteers. The repository will not be the sole possession of any one institution.",
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	"text": "Our key desideratum is support for automatic processing across a large range of languages. No data collection effort currently exists or is proposed, to our knowledge, that addresses this desideratum. Traditional language archives such as the Audio Archive of Linguistic Fieldwork (UC Berkeley), Documentation of Endangered Languages (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen), the Endangered Languages Archive (SOAS, University of London), and the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (Australia) offer broad coverage of languages, but the majority of their offerings are restricted in availability and do not support machine processing. Conversely, large-scale data collection efforts by the Linguistic Data Consortium and the European Language Resources Association cover less than one percent of the world's languages, with no evident plans for major expansion of coverage. Other efforts concern the definition and aggregation of language resource metadata, including OLAC, IMDI, and CLARIN (Simons and Bird, 2003; Broeder and Wittenburg, 2006; V\u00e1radi et al., 2008) , but this is not the same as collecting and disseminating data.",
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	"text": "Initiatives to develop standard formats for linguistic annotations are orthogonal to our goals. The success of the project will depend on contributed data from many sources, in many different formats. Converting all data formats to an official standard, such as the RDF-based models being developed by ISO Technical Committee 37 Sub-committee 4 Working Group 2, is simply impractical. These formats have onerous syntactic and semantic requirements that demand substantial further processing together with expert judgment, and threaten to crush the large-scale collaborative data collection effort we envisage, before it even gets off the ground. Instead, we opt for a very lightweight format, sketched in the next section, to minimize the effort of conversion and enable an immediate start. This does not limit the options of community members who desire richer formats, since they are free to invest the effort in enriching the existing data. Such enrichment efforts may gain broad support if they deliver a tangible benefit for cross-language processing.",
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	"text": "The first half century of research in computational linguistics-from circa 1960 up to the present-has touched on less than 1% of the world's languages. For a field which is justly proud of its empirical methods, it is time to apply those methods to the remaining 99% of languages. We will never have the luxury of richly annotated data for these languages, so we are forced to ask ourselves: can we do more with less?",
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	"text": "We believe the answer is \"yes,\" and so we challenge the computational linguistics community to adopt a scalable computational approach to the problem. We need leaner methods for building machine translation systems; new algorithms for cross-linguistic bootstrapping via multiple paths; more effective techniques for leveraging human effort in labeling data; scalable ways to get bilingual text for unwritten languages; and large scale social engineering to make it all happen quickly.",
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	"text": "To believe we can build this Universal Corpus is certainly audacious, but not to even try is arguably irresponsible. The initial step parallels earlier efforts to create large machine-readable text collections which began in the 1960s and reverberated through each subsequent decade. Collecting bilingual texts is an orthodox activity, and many alternative conceptions of a Human Language Project would likely include this as an early task.",
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	"text": "The undertaking ranks with the largest datacollection efforts in science today. It is not achievable without considerable computational sophistication and the full engagement of the field of computational linguistics. Yet we require no fundamentally new technologies. We can build on our strengths in corpus-based methods, linguistic models, human-and machine-supplied annotations, and learning algorithms. By rising to this, the greatest language challenge of our time, we enable multi-lingual technology development at a new scale, and simultaneously lay the foundations for a new science of empirical universal linguistics.",
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	"text": "We are grateful to Ed Bice, Doug Oard, Gary Simons, participants of the Language Commons working group meeting in Boston, students in the \"Digitizing Languages\" seminar (University of Michigan), and anonymous reviewers, for feedback on an earlier version of this paper.",
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