Objective The goal of the project is to add two new nodes from the NIS to the European Network in Language and Speech (ELSNET). Its primary objective is to support the co-ordination of European research and training activities which promote the development of speech and natural language (NL) technology. The long-term technological goal which motivates the network is the construction of integrated multilingual speech and NL systems with unrestricted coverage of both written and spoken language. ELSNET has already established a wide coverage of sites in Western Europe and will now incorporate two new nodes in the NIS which have excellent research track records in the NL processing and speech areas. They have been active in international communication and co-operation but their links with the research community in Western Europe have been sporadic and incidental and they will gain considerable scientific leverage by exchanging information, research results, data and tools with the rest of the ELSNET community. The project will be further enhanced by joint research activities. Apart from the development of tools, this collaboration will provide an active framework for the integration of the research group in the NIS into the European scientific community. Joint papers will assist the researchers in the NIS to use existing standards for presenting information. A day-to-day collaboration will help to reveal to the researchers in the NIS areas of interest in the scientific community in western Europe since there is no one-to-one mapping and they can adjust to a previously unknown infrastructure. Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Topic(s) 23 - Instrumental Tools Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator University of Edinburgh EU contribution No data Address 2 Buccleuch Place EH8 9LW Edinburgh United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France EU contribution No data Address 91403 Orsay See on map Total cost No data National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ukraine EU contribution No data Address 252022 Kiev See on map Total cost No data Russian Academy of Sciences Russia EU contribution No data Address 117900 Moscow See on map Total cost No data
