Research Group on Language Resources Technologies

We work in the creation, development and applications of technologies related to the acquisition, production, formalization, management, validation and evaluation of language resources as required for Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics

Members of the group are

Dr. Núria Bel (Head of the group)
Dr. Montserrat Marimon (Researcher)
Dr. Marta Villegas (Researcher)
Santiago Bel (Computer Engineer)
Carla Parra (PhD student)
Eva Revilla (Linguist)
Victor Rodriguez (Computer Engineer)

and our students and collaborators are

Silvia Arano
Sergio Espeja
Francesca Alemany, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Cristina Sánchez Marco, Universidad de Zaragoza

Projects we are involved in

Adquisición automática de información léxica (AAILE y AAILE2), funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture (HUM2004-05111-C02-01/FILO and HUM2004-05111-C02-01). The goal of our research is to study the feasibility of the automatic acquisition of the information contained in computational lexicons from corpus. The methodology is by using syntactic restrictions to bias the data, checking the lexical representation against experimental observations. Eventually, what deserves our interest in this area is to understand the role of the syntactic and semantic constraints that operate in texts, and in the feasibility of acquiring related information. Finding how Machine Learning methods can capture them will allow us to improve both the applications aiming at automatic acquisition of lexical information as well as the representation of the lexicon itself. AAILE web page

Clarin: Common Language Resources and Technologies Infrastructure, funded by the 7FP of the EU (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1-212230) and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (CAC-2007-23). CLARIN is committed to establish an integrated and interoperable research infrastructure of language resources and its technology. It aims at lifting the current fragmentation, offering a stable, persistent, accessible and extendable infrastructure and therefore enabling eHumanities. clarin-es.iula.upf.edu and www.clarin.eu

Flarenet: Fostering Language Resources Network, funded by the e-contentplus program of the European Union, Flarenet is a networking organization whose aims are devising and promoting consensual recommendations concerning the future development, deployment and use of LRs. Flarenet will indicate best practices and best policies for coordinating future actions and projects. The major activities of the Network will be to survey, analyse, classify LRs and relevant standards, together with their organisational and economic models, and discuss with major stakeholders and players upon new common strategies for a capillary deployment and use of LRs in real-world products.(http://www.ilc.cnr.it/flarenet)

Spanish Resource Grammar, in the framework of DELPH-IN, www.delph-in.net