  This paper presents a case study concerning the challenges and requirements
posed by next generation language resources, realized as an overall model of
open, distributed and collaborative language infrastructure. If a sort of "new
paradigm" is required, we think that the emerging and still evolving technology
connected to Grid computing is a very interesting and suitable one for a
concrete realization of this vision. Given the current limitations of Grid
computing, it is very important to test the new environment on basic language
analysis tools, in order to get the feeling of what are the potentialities and
possible limitations connected to its use in NLP. For this reason, we have done
some experiments on a module of Linguistic Miner, i.e. the extraction of
linguistic patterns from restricted domain corpora.
