Objective TREE's principal objective is the application of Language Engineering techniques to both gain commercial advantage, and to actively support EU policies.The EU often stresses its linguistic and cultural diversity as one of its strengths. However many EU citizens find these factors work to their disadvantage. They are denied full access to employment opportunities since jobs are not publicised widely, or in languages they read easily. TREE seeks to correct this using Language Engineering and telematic techniques. The users are EU citizens in need of employment who live in (or are prepared to move to) parts of the EU where the majority language is not their own. Their foreign language skills are not sufficiently developed so as to make browsing job adverts in other languages easy. There are several commercial employment agencies now advertising on the Internet. By having an automatic multilingual facility, TREE would have a distinct advantage over its competitors. The project would be based on the Internet (possibly indirectly), and users would be able to access it as a teleservice, or by using publicly accessible kiosks. Employment adverts will be accepted electronically in several major community languages. Using advanced information analysis techniques, these will be stored into sophisticated, language independent, templates. A goal directed generator will then transform these templates as required into a variety of major and minor community languages. The generator will match the level of detail in the adverts to that of the user's query. The service will be tested by both public and private employment agencies, and by unrestricted public access. Progress and resultsThe project will make its public deliverables available on the Internet World Wide Web (http://www.mari.co.uk/~tree/).This will be the public results forum. There will be an in-depth demonstration (Month 21 of the project), and associated public demonstrations will be announced on the Web site. ExploitationThe project's aim is run a commercially viable WWW service. This would be financed by the advertisers/employers (as all such services are). Charging will not be introduced until the number of users visiting the site merits it. Fields of science humanitieslanguages and literaturegeneral language studiessocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemploymentnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetworld wide web Programme(s) FP4-TELEMATICS 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development and demonstration in the area of telematic applications of common interest, 1994-1998 Topic(s) D.12 - Language Engineering Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator MARI Computer Systems Ltd EU contribution No data Address MARI House Old Town Hall NE8 1HE Gateshead United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all GOETEBORG UNIVERSITY Sweden EU contribution No data Address VASAPARKEN 412 98 GOETEBORG See on map Total cost No data Newcastle upon Tyne City Council United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Civic Centre Barras Bridge NE99 2BN Newcastle upon Tyne See on map Total cost No data Quinary SpA Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Crivelli 15/1 20122 Milano See on map Total cost No data University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Sackville Street M60 1QD Manchester See on map Total cost No data
