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, Swedish 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
	PESCaDO: user-oriented environmental information service for a federated community of citizens, public services  administrations, and entrepreneurs active in sectors sensitive to environmental conditions. Funded by the EC as part of FP7.
	i3Media: Technologies for creation and automatic management of smart audiovisual contents,  funded in the Cénit program of the Spanish Goverment.
	COLOCATE: Carried out in collaboration with Prof. M. Alonso Ramos's group at the University of La Coruña. COLOCATE's overall scientific objective is to research and develop techniques for computer assisted learning of collocation vocabulary. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCI FFI 2008-06479-CO2-02/FILO).
COMPLETED PROJECTS
	PATExpert: Advanced Patent Processing Techniques, funded in the FP6 of the EC.
	MARQUIS: Multimodal Air Quality Information Service for General Public, funded in the framework of the EC R&D-Programme eContent.