Introduction
The massive use of Internet has increased the need for the automatic treatment of language. For example, in order to select correctly the information we are interested in, it is essential to treat it linguistically.
Consult the following web pages:
- http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html there are 900 dictionaries available for English, 300 for Spanish 9 for Basque (http://www.hiztegia.net: 50 dictionaries for Basque)
- http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/infolab/globe.html Ask:`How far is Bilbao from London?'
- http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/demo http://bips.bi.ehu.es/tts/tts_eu.html Listen how it reads the texts you write.
- http://news.google.com How do they manage to keep that collection of news updated all the time?
- Do you use the 'Translate this page' option offered by Google?
- http://www.opentrad.com Automatic translation from Spanish into Catalan and Galician. Also as a prototype for Basque.
- Have you ever seen the 'Autosummarize' tool for Word text-processor?
But... how do these applications work? If you are a computer scientist or an engineer, which are the basic computer tools in those fields? How can these applications be integrated in other applications or in the web?
If you are a philologist or a linguist, how do you use your linguistic knowledge in those fields? Lexicon, grammar, sense? How do you make automatically the morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis which are necessary for those applications?
Basque Government has chosen Linguistic InfoEngineering among its strategic research lines. New researchers to work on research and development in those lines (computer scientists and linguists) are needed.
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