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Michael Rosner Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Malta. SCIENCE. …more. ARTS. ENG. ?IT?. CSAI. IOL. CCE. CIS. University Structures. FACULTIES. Departments & Institutes. IT Departments. Linguistics. Algorithmics Formal methods
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Michael RosnerDepartment of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Malta MCST - FP7 Launch
SCIENCE …more ARTS ENG ?IT? CSAI IOL CCE CIS University Structures FACULTIES Departments & Institutes IT Departments Linguistics
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 CSAIAreas of Specialisation MCST - FP7 Launch
Current Research Projects MCST - FP7 Launch
Mediterranean Virtual University MCST - FP7 Launch
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. MCST - FP7 Launch
Cyprus UK Denmark Malta Palestine Lebanon Egypt Jordan Participating Countries from Mediterranean Region MCST - FP7 Launch
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 MCST - FP7 Launch
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 MCST - FP7 Launch
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. MCST - FP7 Launch
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 REWERSE Working Groups MCST - FP7 Launch
LT4eLLanguage Technology for eLearning Language Technology eLearning LT 4 eL MCST - FP7 Launch
LT4eL • Start date: 1 December 2005 • Duration: 30 months • Partners: 12 • EU financing: 1.5 million Euro • Type project: STREP IST 027391 MCST - FP7 Launch
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 MCST - FP7 Launch
Bulgarian Czech Dutch English German Maltese Polish Portuguese Romanian LT4eL - Languages MCST - FP7 Launch
LT4eL- Objectives -2- • Political objectives • Support multilinguality • Knowledge transfer • Awareness raising • Exploitation of resources • Facilitate access to education MCST - FP7 Launch
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 MCST - FP7 Launch
LMS User Profile LING. PROCESSOR EN GE Lemmatizer, POS, Partial Parser Ontology CROSSLINGUAL RETRIEVAL Lexikon Lexicon Lexikon Lexikon Lexikon Lexikon Lexicon Lexikon Lexikon PT PL CZ RO MT BG DT PL PT GE DT RO MT EN CZ Documents SCORM Pseudo-Struct. Basic XML CONVERTOR 2 Documents SCORM Documents HTML Pseudo-Struct Glossary CONVERTOR 1 Metadata (Keywords) Ling. Annot XML BG EN Documents User (PDF, DOC, HTML, SCORM,XML) REPOSITORY MCST - FP7 Launch
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 Summary: Is ParticipationWorth it? MCST - FP7 Launch