Duration: 2 years
Funding: European Union through Information Society Technologies programme (IST-1999-12392).
Summary:
This project aims to develop and bring to marketable stage advanced
technologies of Natural Language Processing for multilingual news
customisation and broadcasting throughout distributed services, a
major problem for International and National News Agencies (NA) as
well as for the spread of Web technologies.
Within their own business cases, NAs need to integrate within their own
repositories news distributed by other NAs usually in different languages
and according to different classification standards. Mismatching is at
language level, a different languages are used, as well as at conceptual
level, as the organization/storage of news proceeds according to diverging
schemes.This project will include the linguistic engineering tools developed
in ITEM , RILE
and EuroWordNet.
This project is developed by our
group from Technical University of Catalonia (UPC),
toghether with members of the University of Barcelona (UB)
Computational Linguistics research group with the research groups of
University of Sheffield,
University of Roma Tor Vergata
and Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
and Itaca,
International Press Telecommunications Council,
Agenzia ANSA,
Agencia EFE and
Financial Times.
More information on the
NAMIC project.