Cooperation on Research and Development of Reusable Multi- Lingual Lexicons for Natural Language Processing

这是一份ESPRIT/NSF合作活动提案，由NMSU的York ick Wilks和意大利比萨大学的Antonio Zampolli联合提交给CEC/DGXIII/ESPRIT。为自然语言处理建立可重复使用的多语言词典是语音/语言理解这一重大挑战问题的关键。欧共体有广泛的机器翻译和其他语言研究工作，特别是在ESPRIT的支持下。这一联合项目预计将为美国研究人员与欧洲同行建立合作关系提供一个起点和一种手段。这项联合工作的成果将与大西洋两岸的普通研究界分享。对欧洲同事的资助由欧共体/ESPRIT提供。

This is an ESPRIT/NSF Cooperative Activity proposal, submitted jointly to NSF by Yorick Wilks of NMSU and to CEC/DGXIII/ESPRIT by Antonio Zampolli of University of Pisa, Italy. The building of reusable, multilingual lexicons for natural language processing is essential for the Grand Challenge Problem - Speech/Language Understanding. There are extensive machine translation and other linguistic research efforts in EC, especially those under the auspices of Esprit. This joint project is expected to provide a start and a means for U.S. researchers to form a collaborative relationship with their European counterparts. The results of this joint work will be shared with the general research community on both sides of the Atlantic. Funding of the European colleagues is provided by the EC/Esprit.