TOPICS

Multilingual Document Generation

One of our major research focus is Multilingual and Multimodal Natural Text Generation (MMNTG). All major aspects of MMNTG are addressed: discourse structure and layout planning, mode selection strategies, sentence planning, and multilingual grammar and morphological resource development. Our linguistic framework is the Meaning-Text Theory. The goal is the development of a large coverage open source MTT-based MMNT-Generator. Currently, we tackle, in cooperation with external collaborators, Catalan, English, Finnish, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Computational Lexicology / Lexicography

Within Computational Lexicology / Lexicography, we are working, first of all, on the problem of automatic recognition and classification of collocations in text corpora. For the time being, Spanish and German has been focused on. A further topic in this area is the problem of the organization of lexical resources and collocation dictionaries.

Language-oriented Machine Learning

Within this area, we study the application of various paradigms of ML (supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning) to the acquisition of linguistic resources.

CURRENT PROJECTS
	i3Media: Technologies for creation and automatic management of smart audiovisual contents,  funded in the Cénit program of the Spanish Goverment.
	PATExpert: Advanced Patent Processing Techniques, funded in the FP6 of the EC.
COMPLETED PROJECTS
	MARQUIS: Multimodal Air Quality Information Service for General Public, funded in the framework of the EC R&D-Programme eContent.