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eVikings II
WP3: Language Technologies
HLT
• Human Language Technologies (HLT) play a crucial role in the Information Society
• For small languages it is a question of survival - in next 100 years 50-90% of languages will be dying out (Atlas of the World Languages in Danger of Disappearing, UNESCO 2001)
WP3: HLT
Objective of WP3 is supporting of HLT research in Estonia by development of:– human resources– material resources (research infrastructure)– re-usable language resources– software
How?
HLT in Estonia
Laboratory of Phonetics and Speech Technology at
IOC
Computer Linguistics’ group at the Tartu
University
HLT group at the Institute of Estonian Language
Written language
Spoken language
Research activities
• UT: text corpora, morphologic, syntactic and semantic analysis, dialogue modelling
• IEL: text corpora, electronic dictionaries, morphologic analysis, text-to-speech synthesis
• IOC: phonetics, speech corpora, text-to-speech synthesis, speech and speaker recognition
Re-usable language resources
Algorithms and
techniques
HLT progress
Re-usable language resources
Algorithms Algorithms and and
techniquestechniques mature for mature for applicationsapplications
Many products
and services
EU languages:
Re-usable language resources
Algorithms Algorithms and and
techniques techniques under developmentunder development
Few products
and services
Estonian:
LANGUAGE PORTAL
http://ee.www.ee
ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES
WP 3 goals• Enhancement of language resources and
infrastructure
CORPORA:text
speechdialogue
multilingual
Language resources
WP 3 goals• Integration of research groups
Laboratory of Phonetics and
Speech Technology at IOC
Computer Linguistics’
group at the Tartu
University HLT group at the Institute of Estonian
Language
Co-ordinatedresearch program
Sharing resources
Sharingpeople
WP 3 goals• Strengthening academy-industry collaboration
Potential partners:• EMT
• Ericsson
• Estonian Legal Translation Centre
• European Language Resources Association
• Microsoft
• Xerox
• Zi Corporation
• Babel Technologies & Telia Research
• ...
WP 3 goals• Improving human resources
Activities:• involve graduate students
• workshops, conferences
• lecture courses, summer & winter schools
• exchange of PhD students HUT, Univ. of Zürich
• ...
WP 3 partners• Acoustics Lab at Helsinki University of Technology:
– lecture courses at summer & winter schools– short visits of PhD student(s) to Acoustics Lab– consulting on speech database development– joint research projects on speech recognition– …
• EMT:– co-operation on database development– sharing information – joint projects– ...