Natural language processing Laboratory Plan: An essential for Persian language

Prevalent use of human language in computer systems and language oriented document processing, especially in the web, caused creating the need of designing mechanisms for developing natural language processing. In this paper, a survey in Natural Language Processing Laboratory has been done and a proposed framework for its development is suggested. Achieving this goal, the specifications, structures and activities of available Natural Language Processing Laboratories have been reviewed and valuable results are obtained. Afterward, a proposed framework is established. This framework introduces requirements of Laboratory in a structural way that providing solutions for it any clear plan in NLP Laboratories. Finally, according to National requirements of Iran and characteristics of Persian language, a Natural Language Processing Laboratory in discussed framework is designed. The activities of this laboratory includes basic tasks like creating linguistic resources (Corpora, Bilingual corpora, Lexicon, etc), test datasets, developing Natural Language Processing System´s Evaluation Framework, development of basic tools (Parser, POS-tagger, etc), research tasks like defining areas for universities, and services such as application development, natural language processing system evaluation, and granting of the appropriate certificates.