Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 561.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:06:50 +0100
From: "Pablo Usabiaga" <liquid@cervantes.es>
Subject: LIQUID Project
LIQUID (Language Independent Querying for Information Discovery), is a RTD
project which main objective is the development of a cost-effective
strategy to provide cross-language access to multilingual text databases.
The domain of the text database used in this project is gastroenterology,
and the selected languages are English, Spanish, German and French;
however, the results achieved by this project may be expanded, in the
future, into other languages and fields of knowledge. The project's goal is
to implement a querying system which, in response to a query introduced by
a user in his own language, will retrieve documents in the various
languages that are addressed in the text database. In order to do so, the
query is automatically translated from the user's languange into the rest
of languages through a semantic network which is linked to indexed terms
which occure in the texts. The development of this semantic network is also
one of the tasks covered by LIQUID. This project, funded by the INFSO DG of
the European Commission, as part of Key Action III "Multimedia Contents and
Tools" of the IST Programme, began in January 2001 and will end in December
2002. The partners participating in LIQUID are: SchlumbergerSema (Spain),
Language and Computing (Belgium), Koordinierungszentrum fr Klinische
Studien - Heinrich-Heine Universitt Dsseldorf (Germany), IMIM - Institut
Municipal d'Investigaci Mdica (Spain), Clinical Information Science Unit
- University of Leeds (United Kingdom), OESI - Instituto Cervantes (Spain),
Center for Health Care Quality and European Union Center - University of
Missouri-Columbia (USA).
More information about LIQUID is available from the European Commission
Human Language Technologies website
(<http://www.HLTcentral.org/Projects/LIQUID>http://www.HLTcentral.org/Projects/LIQUID),
from the LIQUID website (<http://liquid.sema.es>http://liquid.sema.es) and
from the OESI-Instituto Cervantes website
(<http://oesi.cervantes.es/liquid>http://oesi.cervantes.es/liquid).
Additional information about LIQUID and Human Language Technologies may
also be requested by e-mail to <mailto:liquid@cervantes.es>liquid@cervantes.es.
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