MEDAL - Methodological Excellence In Data-Driven Approaches To Linguistics

奖章联盟项目的雄心是通过横向的网络方法，让新一代研究人员参与以经验为基础的最新方法，缩小整个欧洲在获得专业知识、培训和研究资金方面的公认差距。该联盟由四个广受好评的研究机构(爱沙尼亚塔尔图大学的扩大国家成员和协调员；荷兰拉德布大学奈梅亨和顿德斯研究所的马克斯·普朗克心理语言学研究所；英国伯明翰大学)组成，他们将共同领导一项共同行动，通过汇聚世界级的先驱和早期职业研究人员，提高欧洲语言学的全球竞争力，发展卓越的方法培训，并形成跨语言、跨模式、跨学科研究的国际合作模式。该项目专注于三类以经验为基础的方法，它们为最先进的语言研究提供信息：语料库研究、实验方法和计算模型。该联盟将发起一项多管齐下的努力，以在下一代研究人员中建立更好的方法专业知识和意识，在项目中提供高水平的方法培训学校，并参与该项目的合作金牌研究项目，在该项目中，早期职业研究人员在概念化和设计多方法研究计划方面获得第一手经验，通过一系列语言和模式实施该计划，并传播结果，从而提高所有合作伙伴的知名度。到2025年，奖章联盟将发展内部专业知识，建立可持续的联合培训和研究计划，并为进一步合作做好准备，塔尔图大学将成为国际公认的北欧语言学研究卓越中心。

The MEDAL consortium project has the ambition to reduce the recognised gap in access to expertise, training, and research funding in Linguistics across Europe through a horizontal, network approach to engaging a new generation of researchers in empirically grounded, up-to-the-minute methodology. The consortium, comprising four highly acclaimed research organisations (Widening country member and coordinator, the University of Tartu, Estonia; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen & Donders Institute at Radboud University, both in the Netherlands; University of Birmingham, UK) who will jointly lead a concerted move to increase the global competitiveness of Linguistics in Europe by bringing together world-class pioneers and early-career researchers, developing excellence in methodological training, and formulating a model of international collaboration on cross-linguistic, cross-modal, cross-disciplinary research. The project focusses on three clusters of empirically grounded methods which inform state-of-the-art language research: corpus studies, experimental methods, and computational modelling. The consortium will launch a multi-pronged effort to build better methodological expertise and awareness among the next generation of researchers, offer high-level training schools in the methods included in the project, and engage in the project’s collaborative Gold MEDAL Research project, in which early career researchers gain first-hand experience in conceptualising and designing a multi-method research programme, implementing it across a range of languages and modalities, and disseminating the results, leading to increased visibility for all partners. By 2025, the MEDAL consortium will have developed internal expertise, established a sustainable joint training and research programme and be poised for further collaboration, and the University of Tartu will be an internationally recognised Linguistics research excellence hub for Northern Europe.