The initiative is a contribution to the construction of LINGUISTIC interface between Europe and Asia.

   The project aims at:

   (1) immediate goals:  constructing electronic devices for conversation (dictionaries with speech synthesis etc.) and indirect contacts (by writing : e-mails, small messages, letters etc.) as well as publishing handbooks for the prospective users from Europe and Asia.

   (2) long-distance goals : standardisation of semantic concepts (based on inductively derived common ontologies) for building electronic multi-lingual dictionaries

Language Sets:
- Slavic, Roman and Germanic <==> Japanese, Korean and Chinese

This project is under construction.

In the meantime, you can visit the Computer-Aided Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge (CASK) and  European Grammar and Lexicon Project.

In case you or your institution were interested in contributing to this research, please send us a message explaining your motivation either to celta@paris-sorbonne.fr or to etudes.japonaises@univ-lille3.fr

Project holders:
     Prof. dr André WLODARCZYK (Univ. Ch. de Gaulle - Lille & Sorbonne - Paris)
     Dr Koji MORITA (Polish Academy of Science - Warsaw & Univ. Jagiello - Cracow)

We will be adding here information about other projects concerned with building language resources and linguistic interfaces:

CLARIN Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure is a pan-European initiative aiming at organizing access to various kinds of language and multimodal data in the Humanities.
Some efforts of CELTA (Centre for Theortical and Applied Linguistics) in the direction of semantic research on European languages are announced at CLARIN's site [klick here]

MONDILEX Project on th resources in Slavic Languages. The last conference of MONDILEX Project was  held in Warsaw (Polish Academy of Science). Here is the programme.