Plateformes, projets et équipes:

GATE (General Architecture for Texte Engineering): http://gate.ac.uk

Open source, 100% JAVA, In development since 1996, Over 50 plugins, over 70 resource types
STANDARDS-BASED Reference implementation in ISO TC37/SC4 LIRICS project; supports XCES, ACE, TREC etc.
formats; founder member of OASIS/UIMA committee.

Product Description
an integrated development environment for language processing components bundled with the most widely used
GATE Developer
Information Extraction system and a comprehensive set of other plugins
an object library optimised for inclusion in diverse applications giving access to all the services used by GATE
GATE Embedded
developer and more
a collaborative annotation environment for high volume factory-style semantic annotation projects built around a
GATE Teamware
workflow engine and the GATE cloud backend web services
(Multi-paradigm Information Management Index and Repository) a massively scaleable multiparadigm index
GATE Mímir supporting Ontotext KIM and built on Ontotext's semantic repository family, GATE's annotation structures
database plus full-text indexing from MG4J
a Controllable Wiki and CMS with collaborative and asynchronous off-line editing, hosting controlled languages for
GATE Wiki
round-trip ontology engineering
a parallel distributed processing engine that combines GATE embedded with a heavily optimised service
GATE Cloud
infrastructure running on supercomputer hardware
how to commission, design, develop, implement, maintain and evaluate robust and sustainable text processing
The GATE Process
workflows
Training and
intensive 1-week training courses, web training and GATE Certification
Certification
META-NET (Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance Network): http://www.meta-net.eu/
un Réseau d'Excellence comprenant 60 centres de recherche de 34 pays, est dédié à la construction des fondations
technologiques d'une société de l'information de l'Europe multilingue.
 ILC (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale) : http://www.ilc.cnr.it
Projet
CLARIN (Common Language
Resources Infrastructure)
(2008-2011)
is now entirely funded by the
participating countries
http://www.clarin.eu/
CRISTAL (Conceptual Retrieval
of Information using Semantic
Dictionary in three Languages)
From 1993 to 1996
http://cordis.europa.eu/
projects/rcn/19607_en.html
DELIS (Descriptive Lexical
Specifications and Tools for
Corpus-based Lexicon
Building) From 1993 to 1995
http://cordis.europa.eu/
projects/rcn/17207_en.html
EAGLES (Expert Advisory
Group on Language
Engineering Standards)
http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES9
6 From 1996
ISLE (International Standards
for Language Engineering)
www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES96/
isle/ISLE_Home_Page.htm
Last Update: 02/03/2004
ELAN (European Language
Activity Network)
Last updated: 1998-10-26
http://cordis.europa.eu/
projects/rcn/45377_en.html
Objectifs Services
europeen Projects
The ultimate objective of CLARIN ERIC is to advance research in - Search in language
humanities and social sciences by giving researchers unified resources
single sign-on access to a platform which integrates language- - Easy access to
based resources and advanced tools at a European level. protected resources
The CLARIN vision is based on the following eight pillars: (members only)
Coverage, Legal issues, Integration of data, - LRT Inventory
Integration of services, Preservation, Ease of access,
Crossing borders:
The CRISTAL project addresses the area of text retrieval and
indexing. The project will develop a multilingual (French, English
and Italian) natural language interface in order to retrieve
monolingual (French) text in a corpus of newspaper articles.
The system will integrate linguistic methods and information
retrieval techniques.
DELIS is a multidisciplinary project with three broad objectives:-
to contribute to a methodology of dictionary development
based on corpus evidence; to produce parallel dictionary
fragments in five languages, and to produce software tools
supporting this king of lexicographic work.
The basic idea behind EAGLES work is for the group to act as a
catalyst in order to pool concrete results coming from current
major European projects. Relevant common practices or
upcoming standards are being used where appropriate as input
to EAGLES work, particularly in the areas of lexicons, text
encoding and speech.
ISLE acts under the aegis of the EAGLES (Expert Advisory Group
for Language Engineering Standards) initiative, which has seen a
successful development and a broad deployment of a number
of recommendations and de facto standards.
The aim of ISLE is to develop HLT (Human Language Technology
) standards within an international framework, in the context of
the EU-US International Research Cooperation initiative.
The primary aim of ELAN was to link existing language resources
with their potential users throughout Europe.
The project aimed to achieve its objectives through:
the design of a common query language (ELAN-CQL), which
would reinforce or, where necessary, create international

ELSE (Evaluation in Language
and Speech Engineering)
From 1991 to 1999
EMILLE (Enabling Minority
Language Engineering)
http://www.emille.lancs.ac.uk
ENABLER (European National
Activities for Basic Language
Resources)
From 2000 to 2003
http://www.ilc.cnr.it/enabler-
network/index.htm
FLaReNet (Fostering
Language Resources Network)
http://www.flarenet.eu
2008-2011
EuroWordNet
Start Date: March 1996
standards;
the implementation of a user community network, which
would employ active awareness-raising measures, a clear
copyright policy, user support, e-mail user groups and more;
the provision of standardised resources for the following
languages: Albanian, Belgian French, Belorussian, Bulgarian,
Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian,
Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
Serbian, Slovakian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish and Uzbek.
The prospective action of ELSE aimed at preparing for Language
Engineering Evaluation in the context of future R&D
programmes by developing and testing a general infrastructure
for a task-independent, semi-automatic protocol for a
quantitative black-box evaluation of Natural Language
Processing (NLP) systems in a multilingual environment.
EMILLE was a 3 year EPSRC project at Lancaster University and
Sheffield University. Its end product was a 97 million word
electronic corpus of South Asian languages (Bengali, Gujarati,
Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Singhalese, Tamil), especially those spoken
in the UK.
The ENABLER Network aims at improving cooperation among Search Engine in LRT
national activities established by national authorities for Inventory
providing LRs for their languages. The action aims at:
establishing a regular exchange of information; identifying and
fostering possible synergies and cooperation; promoting the
compatibility and interoperability of their results, thus
facilitating the successful transfer of technologies and tools
among languages and the construction of multilingual LRs;
increasing the visibility and the strategic impact of those
national activities in the field of HLT; contributing to the
creation of an overall framework in which the public and private
sectors, national efforts and international coordination could
cooperate in order to answer the IST need for LRs.
The European FLaReNet is intended to develop a common - FLaReNet Forum
vision of the area of Language Resources and Language - Workshops
Technologies for the next years and foster a European strategy - Technical Reports
for consolidating the sector and enhancing competitiveness at - Recommendations
EU level and worldwide. - Deliverables
FLaReNet is organized into five Thematic Areas:
 the Chart for the area of LRs and LT in its different
dimensions;
 methods and models for LR building, reuse, interlinking,
maintenance, sharing, distribution, …;
 harmonisation of formats and standards;
 definition of evaluation and validation protocols and
procedures;
 methods for the automatic construction and processing
of LRs.
EuroWordNet is a multilingual database with wordnets for
several European languages (Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German,
End Date: June 1999
Lirics (Linguistic Infrastructure
for Interoperable Resources
and Systems)
From 2005 to 2007
www.lirics.loria.fr
MATE (Multilevel Annotation,
Tools Engineering)
March 1998 until December
1999
Multext (Multilingual Text
Tools and Corpora)
http://aune.lpl-aix.fr/
projects/multext/
Last modified 22 April 1996.
NERC (Network of European
French, Czech and Estonian). The wordnets are structured in
the same way as the American wordnet for English in terms of
synsets (sets of synonymous words) with basic semantic
relations between them.
LIRICS addresses the needs of today's information and Téléchargements\d1
communication society where globalisation and localization
necessitate multilingual communication creating an increasing
need for new standardization as well as urgent recognition of
existing de facto standards and their transformation into 'de
jure' International Standards. LIRICS thus aims to:
 Provide ISO ratified standards for language technology
to enable the exchange and reuse of multilingual
language resources;
 Facilitate the implementation of these standards for
end-users by providing an open-source implementation
platform, related web services and test suites building
on legacy formats, tools and data;
 Gain full industry support and input to the standards
development via the Industry Advisory group and
demonstration workshops
 Provide a pay-per-use business model for use by
Industry and in particular SMEs validated during the
project for the benefit of all actors in the content and
language industries
aims at facilitating the re-use of language resources by A tool for annotating
addressing the problems of creating, acquiring, and maintaining XML corpora.
language corpora.
The problems are addressed along two lines:
1. through the development of a standard for annotating
resources;
2. through the provision of tools which will make the
processes of knowledge acquisition and extraction more
efficient.
Specifically, MATE will treat spoken dialogue corpora at
multiple levels, focusing on prosody, (morpho-) syntax, co-
reference, dialogue acts, and communicative difficulties, as well
as inter-level interaction.
The results of the project will be of particular benefit to
developers of spoken language dialogue systems but will also
be directly useful for other applications of language
engineering.
Multext is developing a series of tools(Multilingual text editor, Sample Lexicons
SGML manipulation tools, Text segmentation tools , Morpho- (German, Italian,
lexical tools , Multilingual text alignment , Speech Spanish, French)
Workbench ) for accessing and manipulating corpora, including Tools:
corpora encoded in SGML, and for accomplishing a series of
corpus annotation tasks, including token and sentence
boundary recognition, morphosyntactic tagging, parallel text
alignment, and prosody markup. Annotation results may also be
generated in SGML format.
The goal of NERC was the preparation of a European
Reference Corpora)
PAROLE (Preparatory Action
for Linguistic Resources
Organisation for Language
Engineering)
From 1994-12 to 1995-11
PAROLE II From 1996-04 to
1997-03
RELATOR (European Network
of Repositories for Linguistic
Resources)
SIMPLE (Semantic
Information for
Multifunctional Plurilingual
Lexica)
infrastructure on language resources.
Specifically, the project aimed at:
 setting up a European Corpora Network;
 producing a survey of the existing resources in the
various European countries;
 suggesting short, medium and long-term actions in the
field of corpora;
 investigating the legal aspects of the issue in the
European countries;
 proposing a common linguistic annotation schema for
written resources.
The objective of MLAP-PAROLE (MultiLingual Action Plan -
Preparatory Action for Linguistic Resources Organisation for
Language Engineering) - commonly known as PAROLE - was to
define, actively pursue and prepare the construction of a
network of organizations for the design and reusability of
language resources (texts and lexica) and the relevant tools in
the European Union.
The objectives of RELATOR were:
 to create structured, publicly available catalogues of existing
Linguistic Resources (LRs), using and extending the
information already collected by various international and
national survey initiatives;
 to discuss with the relevant actors (e.g. owners of resources,
producers, private and public users, funding bodies,
international organisations, scientific and professional
associations) the various aspects of the problem, their needs
and requirements, the possible solutions, their willingness to
cooperate and the conditions for a joint European action;
 to identify, describe and evaluate at various levels (e.g.
organisational, technical, legal, financial) alternative methods
and structures which could ensure the creation, management
and maintenance of a European repository of reusable LRs,
and their dissemination to various types of users;
 to experiment with the collection and dissemination of
existing LRs, using (i) a distributed electronic network and (ii)
CD-ROM pressing facilities, with the aim of encouraging the
reuse of already available resources and also of acquiring
experience which would feed into the formulation of final
recommendations;
 to present final recommendations for establishing a
collaborative infrastructure that would act as a collection,
verification, management and dissemination centre, built on
the foundation provided by existing European networks and
organisations.
The objective of SIMPLE was to provide the first core of a large
scale, re-usable and customisable lexicon in all EU languages,
including morphological, syntactic and semantic layers.
Reaching this objective has required the addition of a semantic
level to the resources developed in PAROLE (Preparatory Action
for Linguistic Resources Organisation for Language Engineering),

SPARKLE (Shallow PARsing
and Knowledge extraction for
Language Engineering)
From 1996 to 1998
TELRI (Trans-European
Language Resources
Infrastructure)
1999
NEDO (Developing
International Standards of
Language Resources for
Semantic Web Applications)
http://www.nedo.go.jp
OLAC (the Open Language
Archives Community)
Last modified: Feb 2011
http://www.language-
by encoding semantic information selected on the basis of
frequency of occurrence in the aforesaid project.
Lexicon development has proceeded according to the
requirements set out in PAROLE, with a specific focus on
encoding standards, extendibility and reusability.
The project has also made resources generally available and
accessible, by providing the necessary lexicon management
tools.
The main objective of SPARKLE was to develop robust and
portable tools for lexical acquisition to aid commercial
applications in the area of multilingual information
management.
There were three intermediate goals to achieve this objective:
 to develop generic shallow parsing tools to handle
unrestricted texts in English, French, German and
Italian;
 to use shallow parsing to develop systems for semi-
automatic acquisition of lexical information concerning
subcategorisation, semantic classes of predicates,
argument structure, preferential selectional restrictions
and diathesis alternations;
 to compare the relative success of different approaches
to shallow parsing and lexical acquisition both intra-
and inter-linguistically.
The TELRI concerted action was an initiative funded by the
European Commission that has created a viable infrastructure
between leading European language and language technology
centres in order to provide a platform for industry, research
institutes and universities and to supply the NLP community
with precompetitive/public domain monolingual and
multilingual language resources, such as corpora, machine
readable dictionaries and lexica, lexical databases and software
tools for the creation, re-use, maintenance, valorisation and
exploitation of linguistic data.
International projects
The goal of NEDO is developing a standard description
framework of language resources which are infrastructure of
language technology and contributing to making international
standards of language resources.
In order to achieve this goal, we will work on the following four
research items:
(1) developing a standard description framework of lexical
entries;
(2) constructing sample lexicons of several Asian languages;
(3) developing a standard upper ontology;
(4) evaluating the standards through building language
resources of a specific application.
OLAC is an international partnership of institutions and
individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of
language resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current
practice for the digital archiving of language resources, and (ii)
 archives.org/
WRITE (Written Resources
Infrastructure, Technology
and Evaluation)
http://www.ilc.cnr.it/write/
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http://www.ilc.cnr.it/abaro/
principale2_ara.htm
developing a network of interoperating repositories and
services for housing and accessing such resources.
The WRITE Committee is the natural evolution of the ICCWLRE
(International Coordination Committee for Written Language
Resources and Evaluation), born from an idea of Antonio
Zampolli and officially launched during the ENABLER/ELSNET
Workshop "International Roadmap for Language Resources"
(Paris, 28th-29th August 2003).
The objective of the project is twofold: on the one hand, the  Morphological
creation and the elaboration of software procedures for Arabic Analyzers and
language and, on the other hand, the creation of linguistic parsers
resources for the management of large Arabic corpora.
The linguistic resources are substantially the following:  automatic taggers
 Morphological engine for the Arabic language. The
engine is constituted by a number of modules: the
algorithms and modules for generation and analysis, an
appropriate encoding system for the representation of
lexical data and of morphological characteristics of
Arabic, the so-called “lemmario”, i.e. the archive of
lemmas.
 The automatic alignment of parallel texts in Italian and
Arabic language.
 Automatic tagging of Arabic texts, performed by using
the above morphological engine
 Systems for accessing and querying (raw and/or tagged)
Arabic texts and parallel Italian-Arabic corpora.
Lexus, ESFRI => Dariah, Clarin
Tamil
SyllableNet

http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES/intro.html

http://aune.lpl-aix.fr/projects/multext/

http://clarin.eu/

http://www.dariah.fr/