February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch1 Michael Rosner Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Malta

February 2007 MCST - FP7 Launch 1

Michael RosnerDepartment of Computer Science

and Artificial Intelligence

University of Malta

December 2005 2

University Structures

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FACULTIES

Departments& Institutes

CSAI IOLCCE CIS

IT Departments Linguistics


CSAIAreas of Specialisation

• Algorithmics– Formal methods– Software verification

• Distributed Computing– Grid Architectures– High Performance

• Software Engineering– Engineering principles applied

to software design

• Internet Technologies– Web Services– Semantic Web

• Artificial Intelligence– Intelligent Agents– Machine Learning

• Human Language Technologies– Information Extraction– Machine Translation

• eLearning– Interactive Delivery– Adaptive Systems


Current Research ProjectsName Area Period Funding

1. MLRS LT 2005-7 MCST

2. MVU eL 2004-7 EUROMED

3. COLLEGE eL 2006-8 UoM

4. REWERSE S Web 2004-7 EU/FP6

5. LT4eL LT/eL 2005-8 EU/FP6

6. Functional Meta-Languages for Hardware Compiler Specification

HW Spec

2006-8 UoM


Mediterranean Virtual University


MVU - EUMEDIS• Current

Building the infrastructure for a collaborative international university in the Mediterranean region

• Intended

The establishment of a virtual university, complete with administrative structures, registration, accreditation, and equivalency models.


Participating Countries from Mediterranean Region

• Cyprus• UK• Denmark• Malta

• Palestine• Lebanon• Egypt• Jordan


UoM's Contribution

• Learning Management System (based on Moodle)

• Creation of Pilot Course Content– ICT subject matter, based on ACM syllabus– 40 courses between 8 partners– Each course equivalent to 5 ECTS credits


UoM's Contribution

• Learning Management System (based on Moodle)

• Creation of Pilot Course Content– ICT subject matter, based on ACM syllabus– 40 courses between 8 partners– Each course equivalent to 5 ECTS credits


REWERSE – FP6 NOE

• Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics

• Objective is to establish Europe as a leader in reasoning languages for the Web

• Develop basis for industrial software development of advanced Web systems and applications.


REWERSE Working Groups

• Rule Markup– rule languages

• Policies– specification, enforcement,

integration

• Web Service Composition **– software composition over

the web

• Query– reasoning-aware querying

• Evolution– management of change on

the Web

• Time and Location **– temporal & spatial

reasoning on the Web:

• Bioinformatics– Semantic web tailored to

bioinformatics domain

• Personalisation **– adaptive information

systems and personalized e-commerce systems


LT4eLLanguage Technology for eLearning

eLearningLanguage Technology

LT 4 eL


LT4eL

• Start date: 1 December 2005• Duration: 30 months• Partners: 12• EU financing: 1.5 million Euro• Type project: STREP IST 027391


LT4eL- Objectives -1-

• Scientific/Technological Objectives

– Integration of language technology resources and tools in eLearning

– Integration of semantic knowledge in eLearning

– Improve retrieval of learning material

– CLIR


LT4eL - Languages

• Bulgarian• Czech• Dutch• English• German

• Maltese• Polish• Portuguese• Romanian


LT4eL- Objectives -2-

• Political objectives– Support multilinguality– Knowledge transfer– Awareness raising– Exploitation of resources– Facilitate access to education


Tasks• Creation of an archive of learning objects• Semi-automatic metadata generation driven by

NLP:– Keyword extractor– Definition extractor

• Enhancing eLearning with semantic knowledge– ontologies

• Integration/validation of functionalities in LMS (ILIAS);

• Develop multilingual access


Lexikon

CZ

CZCZEN

ENCONVERTOR 1

Documents SCORM

Pseudo-Struct.

Basic XML LING. PROCESSOR

Lemmatizer, POS, Partial Parser

CROSSLINGUAL RETRIEVAL

LMS User Profile

Documents SCORM

Pseudo-Struct

Metadata (Keywords)

Ling. Annot XML

Ontology

CONVERTOR 2

Documents HTML

Lexikon

PT

Lexikon

RO

Lexikon

PL

Lexicon

GE

Lexikon

MT

Lexikon

BG

Lexikon

DT

Lexicon

EN

PLPL

GEGE

BGBG

PTPT

MTMT

DTDT

RORO

ENDocuments User

(PDF, DOC, HTML,

SCORM,XML)

REPOSITORY

Glossary


Summary: Is ParticipationWorth it?

PROS• Multicultural and

Multidisciplinary Environment

• Funding for Research Staff

• International Profile for Institution

• European Team Operation

CONS• High Initial Investment• Administration and

Reporting & Financial Arrangements

• Collaboration at a distance takes effort