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February 2007 MCST - FP7 Launch 1
Michael RosnerDepartment of Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence
University of Malta
December 2005 2
University Structures
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FACULTIES
Departments& Institutes
CSAI IOLCCE CIS
IT Departments Linguistics
February 2007 MCST - FP7 Launch 3
CSAIAreas of Specialisation
• Algorithmics– Formal methods– Software verification
• Distributed Computing– Grid Architectures– High Performance
• Software Engineering– Engineering principles applied
to software design
• Internet Technologies– Web Services– Semantic Web
• Artificial Intelligence– Intelligent Agents– Machine Learning
• Human Language Technologies– Information Extraction– Machine Translation
• eLearning– Interactive Delivery– Adaptive Systems
February 2007 MCST - FP7 Launch 4
Current Research ProjectsName Area Period Funding
1. MLRS LT 2005-7 MCST
2. MVU eL 2004-7 EUROMED
3. COLLEGE eL 2006-8 UoM
4. REWERSE S Web 2004-7 EU/FP6
5. LT4eL LT/eL 2005-8 EU/FP6
6. Functional Meta-Languages for Hardware Compiler Specification
HW Spec
2006-8 UoM
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MVU - EUMEDIS• Current
Building the infrastructure for a collaborative international university in the Mediterranean region
• Intended
The establishment of a virtual university, complete with administrative structures, registration, accreditation, and equivalency models.
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Participating Countries from Mediterranean Region
• Cyprus• UK• Denmark• Malta
• Palestine• Lebanon• Egypt• Jordan
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UoM's Contribution
• Learning Management System (based on Moodle)
• Creation of Pilot Course Content– ICT subject matter, based on ACM syllabus– 40 courses between 8 partners– Each course equivalent to 5 ECTS credits
February 2007 MCST - FP7 Launch 9
UoM's Contribution
• Learning Management System (based on Moodle)
• Creation of Pilot Course Content– ICT subject matter, based on ACM syllabus– 40 courses between 8 partners– Each course equivalent to 5 ECTS credits
February 2007 MCST - FP7 Launch 10
REWERSE – FP6 NOE
• Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics
• Objective is to establish Europe as a leader in reasoning languages for the Web
• Develop basis for industrial software development of advanced Web systems and applications.
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REWERSE Working Groups
• Rule Markup– rule languages
• Policies– specification, enforcement,
integration
• Web Service Composition **– software composition over
the web
• Query– reasoning-aware querying
• Evolution– management of change on
the Web
• Time and Location **– temporal & spatial
reasoning on the Web:
• Bioinformatics– Semantic web tailored to
bioinformatics domain
• Personalisation **– adaptive information
systems and personalized e-commerce systems
February 2007 MCST - FP7 Launch 12
LT4eLLanguage Technology for eLearning
eLearningLanguage Technology
LT 4 eL
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LT4eL
• Start date: 1 December 2005• Duration: 30 months• Partners: 12• EU financing: 1.5 million Euro• Type project: STREP IST 027391
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LT4eL- Objectives -1-
• Scientific/Technological Objectives
– Integration of language technology resources and tools in eLearning
– Integration of semantic knowledge in eLearning
– Improve retrieval of learning material
– CLIR
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LT4eL - Languages
• Bulgarian• Czech• Dutch• English• German
• Maltese• Polish• Portuguese• Romanian
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LT4eL- Objectives -2-
• Political objectives– Support multilinguality– Knowledge transfer– Awareness raising– Exploitation of resources– Facilitate access to education
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Tasks• Creation of an archive of learning objects• Semi-automatic metadata generation driven by
NLP:– Keyword extractor– Definition extractor
• Enhancing eLearning with semantic knowledge– ontologies
• Integration/validation of functionalities in LMS (ILIAS);
• Develop multilingual access
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Lexikon
CZ
CZCZEN
ENCONVERTOR 1
Documents SCORM
Pseudo-Struct.
Basic XML LING. PROCESSOR
Lemmatizer, POS, Partial Parser
CROSSLINGUAL RETRIEVAL
LMS User Profile
Documents SCORM
Pseudo-Struct
Metadata (Keywords)
Ling. Annot XML
Ontology
CONVERTOR 2
Documents HTML
Lexikon
PT
Lexikon
RO
Lexikon
PL
Lexicon
GE
Lexikon
MT
Lexikon
BG
Lexikon
DT
Lexicon
EN
PLPL
GEGE
BGBG
PTPT
MTMT
DTDT
RORO
ENDocuments User
(PDF, DOC, HTML,
SCORM,XML)
REPOSITORY
Glossary
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Summary: Is ParticipationWorth it?
PROS• Multicultural and
Multidisciplinary Environment
• Funding for Research Staff
• International Profile for Institution
• European Team Operation
CONS• High Initial Investment• Administration and
Reporting & Financial Arrangements
• Collaboration at a distance takes effort