Abstract
The Andrew K. Mellon Foundation has funded a project to create a "trust network" between the Language Applications (LAPPS) Grid, a major framework for composing pipelines of natural language processing (NLP) tools, and the WebLicht workflow engine hosted by the CLARIN-D Center in Tuebingen.
The project also includes integration of NLP services available from the LINDAT/CLARIN Center in Prague. The goal is to allow users on one side of the bridge to gain appropriately authenticated access to the other and enable seamless communication among tools and resources in both frameworks.
The resulting "meta-framework" provides users across the globe with access to an unprecedented array of language processing facilities that cover multiple languages, tasks, and applications, all of which are fully interoperable.