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Michael Rosner
Department of Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence
University of Malta
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University Structures
FACULTIES
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SCIENCE
ARTS
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Departments
& Institutes
CCE
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CSAI
CIS
IT Departments
IOL
Linguistics
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CSAI
Areas of Specialisation
• Algorithmics
• Artificial Intelligence
– Formal methods
– Software verification
• Distributed Computing
– Grid Architectures
– High Performance
• Software Engineering
– Engineering principles applied
to software design
• Internet Technologies
– Web Services
– Semantic Web
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– Intelligent Agents
– Machine Learning
• Human Language
Technologies
– Information Extraction
– Machine Translation
• eLearning
– Interactive Delivery
– Adaptive Systems
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Current Research Projects
Name
1. MLRS
Area
LT
Period
2005-7
Funding
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-
HW
Spec
2006-8
UoM
Languages for
Hardware Compiler
Specification
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Mediterranean Virtual University
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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
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Cyprus
UK
Denmark
Malta
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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
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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
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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
• Evolution
• Rule Markup
– management of change on
the Web
– rule languages
• Policies
– specification, enforcement,
integration
• Web Service Composition
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– software composition over
the web
• Query
– reasoning-aware querying
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• 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
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LT4eL
Language Technology for eLearning
Language Technology
eLearning
LT 4 eL
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LT4eL
• Start date:
• Duration:
• Partners:
• EU financing:
• Type project:
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1 December 2005
30 months
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1.5 million Euro
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
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Bulgarian
Czech
Dutch
English
German
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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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User
Profile
LMS
Documents SCORM
Pseudo-Struct.
Basic XML
LING.
PROCESSOR
Lemmatizer, POS, Partial
Parser
CROSSLINGUAL
RETRIEVAL
CONVERTOR 2
Documents SCORM
Pseudo-Struct
Documents HTML
Ontology
Glossary
CONVERTOR 1
EN
CZ
MT
PL
GE
DT
RO
Documents User
(PDF, DOC, HTML,
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SCORM,XML)
EN
Metadata
(Keywords)
Ling. Annot XML
Lexikon GE
Lexicon
BG
PT
MT
LexikonBG
LexikonDT
Lexikon EN
CZ
Lexicon Lexikon
PT
LexikonRO
LexikonPL
REPOSITORY
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Summary: Is Participation
Worth it?
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PROS
Multicultural and
Multidisciplinary
Environment
Funding for Research
Staff
International Profile
for Institution
European Team
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CONS
• High Initial Investment
• Administration and
Reporting & Financial
Arrangements
• Collaboration at a
distance takes effort
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