Duration: 3 years (2001-2003)
Funding: CICYT (TIC2000-0335-C03-02)
Summary: In the HERMES project two applications will
be developed which facilitate the retrieval of multilingual textual information.
These applications will offer significant improvements over current systems
due to the incorporation of techniques taken from the field of linguistic
engineering. The improvements will be seen interms of the relevance of
the obtained results and also in the analysis and presentation of the selected
information. The first application will be a system that deals with requests
for information contained in a multilingual (Basque, Catalan, English and
Spanish) digital news archive. The second application will be a Web-based
multilingual search system of online news (e.g., Web-based newspapers).
HERMES is a project developed by
our
group from Technical University of Catalonia (UPC),
toghether with members of the University of Barcelona (UB)
Computational Linguistics research
group, the NLP group
from Basque Country University (EHU), and
the NLP research group in the
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).