eVikings II

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eVikings II

• WP3 Language Technologies

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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)

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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?

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HLT in Estonia
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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

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HLT progress
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WP 3 goals

• Enhancement of language resources and
  infrastructure

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WP 3 goals

• Integration of research groups

Sharing resources
Co-ordinated research program
Sharing people
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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
• ...

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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
• ...

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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
• ...