Language Engineering: third call for proposals
The European Commission, DG XIII, intends to publish a call for proposals for the language engineering area of the TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS Programme on 15 September 1995. The closing date will be 15 January 1996. Priority assistance will be given to the following areas: - Innovative pilot application projects exhibiting a broad European scope, a significant user dimension, and a clear deployment and exploitation potential. These projects will concentrate on the integration, validation and deployment of well mastered language technologies. Proposals addressing the needs of elderly and disabled people are welcomed; - Leading-edge pilot application projects contributing to the emergence of an open Information Society through research and demonstration efforts aimed at countering information under and overflow resulting from the growing availability of multilingual multimedia content over broad and mobile communication networks. These projects will foster the consolidation of novel language technologies and their integration into multimedia information and communication products and services. RTD will aim at the next generation of telematics applications, and will feature focused, goal-oriented research efforts. There is a specific effort in this call to encourage proposals falling within the scope of and contributing to Global G7 Projects in the area of multimedia information access and management. These proposals are expected to bring together researchers, information providers and system integrators and to promote close cooperation with on-going and planned European and international initiatives in the field. - Horizontal and support actions addressing the following: . Pre-normative standards and guidelines; . Assessment of language components to be integrated into larger telematics products and service; . European conferences and exhibitions and user surveys in several countries and socio-economic sectors.