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1 Multi-lingual & multi- institutional distant learning Example of an international master programme in Computational Linguistics 14-16 November, Blaubeuren, Germany Nikolai Vazov Sofia University Kiril Simov LML - BAS BulTreeBank project Petya Ossenova Sofia University BulTreeBank project

2 14-16 November 2003MiLCA Symposium, Blaubeuren, Germany 2 General goals of the programme to put together linguistics (linguists) and computer technologies (computer scientists) to put together foreign and local expertise to promote international multi-lingual cooperation in order to develop multi- lingual language electronic resources

3 14-16 November 2003MiLCA Symposium, Blaubeuren, Germany 3 Programme participants (1-2 year) Two academic partners –University of Sofia (2 departments) –University of Paris IV - Sorbonne Two project managment partners –French Ministry of Foreign Affairs –French Cultural Institute in Sofia

4 14-16 November 2003MiLCA Symposium, Blaubeuren, Germany 4 Programme participants (3 year) Six academic partners –University of Sofia (3 departments) –University of Paris IV - Sorbonne –LML - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences –University of Montréal (RALI & OLST) –University of Iaşi (Romania) –RACAI (Romania) Three project managment partners –French Ministry of Foreign Affairs –French Cultural Institute in Sofia –Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie

5 14-16 November 2003MiLCA Symposium, Blaubeuren, Germany 5 Organisation (educational activities) Foreign participants –1-3 intensive teaching sessions –distant follow up between the sessions –distant examination Local participants –successive modules (1-3 weeks each) accompanied by web-based courses –distant tutorship after the course - individual work with students (the format 8 students/15 professors allows for it) –on-line personal library for each student (articles to read and discuss with the other participants) –distant examination

6 14-16 November 2003MiLCA Symposium, Blaubeuren, Germany 6 Organisation (research activities) Carried out as individual tasks with twofold impact: development of personal skills in manipulating electronic text data (using CLaRK, Perl, MySQL, XML, HTML) integration of individual tasks into the main goal of the team - creation of mono- and multi-lingual electronic resources

7 14-16 November 2003MiLCA Symposium, Blaubeuren, Germany 7 Organisation (research activities) Examples: writing tokenizers for French (solved in TreeTagger) sentence boundaries identification (not entirely handled by TreeTagger, but indispensable for parallel corpora) named entity recognition temporal expression extraction abbreviations identification parenthetic expressions identification concordances (Bulgarian & French)

8 14-16 November 2003MiLCA Symposium, Blaubeuren, Germany 8 On-line ressources and tools CLaRK system Morphological dictionary for Bulgarian Large tagged corpus of Bulgarian Concordances (French, Bulgarian) Temporal expressions extractor (French) Large archive of bilingual (French-Bulgarian) texts Large tagged corpus FRANTEXT Large bilingual (French- English) aligned corpus Hansard Taggers (TreeTagger and LATL) Le Monde sur CD-ROM (with integrated search engine) Developed by the teamOther available ressources

9 14-16 November 2003MiLCA Symposium, Blaubeuren, Germany 9 Future work New (better targeted) master « Electronic language resources » Goals of the master defined the other way around: research needs determine the course content and not vice versa Envisaged product: parallel French-Bulgarian corpus with named entity identification So far: collection of parallel texts, development of proper names transcription module


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