Cultural Heritage Language Technologies

University Of Missouri-Kansas City, Columbia MO

Investigators

Abstract

This international collaborative research project will create advanced digital library applications to adapt existing computational linguistic and data mining techniques for the special requirements associated with humanities content and build an international framework for issues such as the long-term preservation of data, metadata standards and interoperability. The results of the project will lower the barriers for researchers and students to reading classical Greek, Latin, and old Norse texts. The suite of applications envisioned include multi-lingual information retrieval capabilities, concept identification, vocabulary and syntactic parsing tools, text analysis and visualization tools, scholar-user text annotation and emendation, and related capabilities. Storage of resources and data will be in numerous locations and offer open access via the internet. This is a international collaborative effort involving multiple institutions in the US and European Union countries.