MEDAL - Methodological Excellence In Data-Driven Approaches To Linguistics

MEDAL联盟项目的目标是通过一个横向的、网络的方法，让新一代的研究人员参与到以经验为基础的、最新的方法中来，缩小欧洲语言学在获得专业知识、培训和研究资金方面的公认差距。该联盟由四个备受赞誉的研究机构组成(扩大国家成员和协调机构，爱沙尼亚塔尔图大学，奈梅亨的马克斯普朗克心理语言学研究所和内梅亨大学的Donders研究所，都在荷兰；由英国伯明翰大学（University of Birmingham）教授担任教授，他们将共同领导一项协调一致的行动，通过汇集世界级的先驱和早期职业研究人员，发展卓越的方法培训，并制定跨语言、跨模式、跨学科研究的国际合作模式，提高欧洲语言学的全球竞争力。该项目侧重于三个基于经验的方法集群，这些方法为最先进的语言研究提供了信息：语料库研究、实验方法和计算建模。该联盟将发起一项多管齐下的努力，在下一代研究人员中建立更好的方法专业知识和意识，为项目中包括的方法提供高水平培训学校，并参与项目的合作金牌研究项目，在该项目中，早期职业研究人员获得概念化和设计多方法研究计划的第一手经验，并在一系列语言和模式中实施它。并传播结果，从而提高所有合作伙伴的知名度。到2025年，MEDAL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.