Objective The development of resources, tools, and standards is widely developed for EU languages, there have been very few comparable efforts for the languages of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). MULTEXT EAST is intended to fill this gap by developing CEE languages and adapting the already existing tools EU standards. Multext-East is a an extention of the REE DG XIII/E research programme on language ingineering project Multext, one of the largest EU projects in the domain of language tools and resources. Multext has three main objectives: standardisation: development of a software standard based on a 'software Lego' approach for corpus handling tools, together with TEI-based encoding conventions specifically suited to multilingual corpora and language engineering applications. tool and corpus development: development of an extensive set of tools for corpus annotation and exploitation as well as the first annotated large-scale multilingual corpus for EU languages, intended to serve as a reference and test-bed for multilingual tools and applications. industrial validation: integration by six major European companies of project results into high-level NLP applications such as term extraction and machine translation lexicon generation, thus providing a first indication of downstream applicability. Multext-East will extend the scope of Multext by transferring its expertise, methodologies, and tools to CEE countries. Because projects funded under Copernicus will begin at approximately Multext's mid point, its tools and methods will be well-developed enough to extend to additional languages. At the same time, the timing will enable Multext to incorporate feedback from application of its tools to vastly different language types (especially Slavic and Finno-Ugric) while they are still under development. Together, Multext and Multext-East will create a unique network of more than twenty academic research centres and companies, all developing and using common lingware and methodologies, as well as producing the first annotated large-scale multilingual corpus for 12 EU and CEE languages. Programme(s) IC-PECO/COPERNICUS - Scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and European non-member countries, 1992- Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator CNRS & Université de Provence EU contribution No data Address Av. Robert Schuman 29 13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1 France See on map Total cost No data Participants (11) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Amebis D.O.O Slovenia EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Byll Software LTD Czechia EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Centre for Machine Learning and Natural Language (RAS) Romania EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Charles University Czechia EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Institut of Mathematics (BAS) Bulgaria EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale Italy EU contribution No data Address Via della Faggiola 32 56126 Pisa See on map Total cost No data Jozef Stefan Institute Slovenia EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Linguistics Research Institute (HAS) Hungary EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Morphologic GMK Hungary EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Research Institute for Informatics Romania EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data Tartu University Estonia EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data
