DicoPro is a project funded within the Multilingual Information Society Programme (MLIS), an EU initiative launched by the European Commission's DG XIII. The goals of the DicoPro project encompass three domains:

• data: the conversion of several dictionaries to electronic form, stored in standard SGML format (XML).
• tools: the development of a uniform, cross-platform tool to enable translators and other language professionals connected to an intranet to consult dictionaries and related lexical data from multiple sources
• licensing: the exploration and assessment of various distribution and licensing schemes for electronic dictionaries whereby usability and convenience of the end-user is balanced with the need to protect the property of publishers

A demonstration version of the DicoPro client is available for public download. It requires Java 1.2. Once the DicoPro demo is installed, you can test it with our public Dictionary Information Server. DicoPro Applet Prototype

Sylex is a prototype to index and consult in parallel, with an Internet Browser, the multilingual texts (Deutsch,French and Italian) of the systematic collection of the Swiss Federal laws.
The indexes uses the powerfull set of Multilingual Core Language Technology to refine the request and thus the relevance of the answers. This includes language analysis components such as segmenter, morphological analyser or tagger. Recognition of lexemes, contruction of ontologies (semantic information) which improve the indexing and thus increase the successful retreival of documents and information by means of intelligent natural analysis. The existing resources which are available for French, English, german and (partly) for Italien.

Demo: (short texts)
Sylex with forms Sylex with Java1.2 interface

A set of tools for multilingual part-of-speech tagging based on a Hidden Markov Model.
Basic technology that has proven useful for monolingual processing tasks is adapted and extended to accomodate a range of natural languages. Emphasis is placed on facilites for experimenting with different tagsets and aiding the user to evaluate and modify the results. Aside from the tagger, the tools include modules to prepare the text for training and tagging, define new tagsets or modify existing sets, declare linguistic preferences, train or retrain with hand annotated data, and facilities to compare results with hand corrected data. These tools provide a flexible environment to experiment with a range of tagsets in different languages.

The Tagger (version 3.00)

Thesis of the Postgrade Course in Gestion moderne des documents électroniques
Amélioration des recherches Full-Text sur base de connaissances morphologiques (in French)

Try the BCP Align
BCPVIEW allows various types of searches in aligned text pairs. First the texts are processed through an alignment program that produces files containing 'index' information which are then used by the interactive lookup program to output a region of the first text (source text) and the corresponding region of the second text (target text) one or both satisfying to a research criterion.
The alignment program is based on statistical methods (length of paragraphs and sentences) (Church and Gale, 1991) applied to parallel texts. The texts are aligned and indexed in a sentence by sentence basis.
This tool enables a lexicographer to quickly find all sentences in the source text and in the target text where a term S of the source text is (or is not) translated as a term T in the target text.
Different types of specifications for terms are provided, like exact matches, relaxed matches, prefix matches and regular expression matches. Searches for terms have 'operators', {\m and, andnot,} to be able to access sentence pairs where terms S and T occur, or sentence pairs where S appears and not T.

Informations on the courses