MEDAR: Collaboration between European and Mediterranean Arabic Partners to Support the Development of Language Technology for Ar

After the successful completion of the NEMLAR project 2003-2005, a new opportunity for a project was opened by the European Commission, and a group of largely the same partners is now executing the MEDAR project. MEDAR will be updating the surveys and BLARK for Arabic already made, and will then focus on machine translation (and other tools for translation) and information retrieval with a focus on language resources, tools and evaluation for these applications. A very important part of the MEDAR project is to reinforce and extend the NEMLAR network and to create a cooperation roadmap for Human Language Technologies for Arabic. It is expected that the cooperation roadmap will attract wide attention from other parties and that it can help create a larger platform for collaborative projects. Finally, the project will focus on dissemination of knowledge about existing resources and tools, as well as actors and activities; this will happen through newsletter, website and an international ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Bente Maegaard, Mohammed Atiyya, Khalid Choukri, Steven Krauwer, Chafic Mokbel, Mustafa Yaseen
• Keywords: Cooperation Roadmap, Education, Human Language Technologies, LREC 2008, MEDAR Project