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BATMULT will provide research training in the area of multilingual
language
resources and knowledge tools. This implies an interdisciplinary area
of
study and research where linguistic knowledge is coupled to advanced
information
technology. From the linguistic side, it is important to have insights
in structures and mechanisms pertaining to the comparative study of
languages,
for instance, the translational correspondence of word meanings
appearing
in lexical relations (ambiguity, homonymy, polysemy, etc). From the
information
processing side, it is important to derive formal methods for
processing
linguistic content, for instance, by automatically and objectively
computing
such translational correspondences and lexical relations from parallel
text corpora. Research on language knowledge tools is dependent not
only
on advanced algorithms for information processing, but also crucially
on
linguistic information gathered and coded in language resources, such
as
text corpora and concordances. This again raises other research issues,
such as those pertaining to text coding, annotation and
standardization.
Research training will be provided in the following more
detailed areas:
(a) Multilingual resources:
* term banks;
* large-scale corpora (including parallel corpora and speech
corpora);
* large-scale parallel grammar development;
* large-scale lexicon development;
* word nets, thesauri and semantic mirrors;
* text coding, annotation and standards for resources.
(b) Multilingual knowledge tools:
* machine translation and multilingual transfer
assessment;
* multilingual lexical semantics;
* language production systems;
* language learning tools;
* editorial support tools.
Methodologically, the research training will be based on
accepted and
well-proven research methods; these will be complemented by the
integration
of new advanced approaches, especially research techniques based on
statistics,
language learning and adaptation, including neural networks. In
addition
to high level competence, attention is paid to practical research
skills
to be transferred, such as problem solving, programming, and the use of
corpora and other language data.
We also refer to the list
of
staff and their respective research areas.
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