During the lifetime of the project we have pursued many ways of informing the relevant stakeholders about the progress of the research and development of MOLTO tools. The user community for MOLTO technologies comprises academicians, working the areas of computational linguistics and semantic web, but also members of industry offering services such as translations of web pages and of online content, from e-Government and business logics to cultural heritage, patents in pharmacology and creators of resources for e-learning of mathematics.
Here below the ways in which this broad user community has been targeted.
Because of the Open Access Clause, we had to make sure that the copyright policy for the proceedings of chosen conferences and meetings would allow distribution of the publication also on the partners' Open Access Servers. This is the list of Open Access servers that are also distributing the MOLTO publications:
Here below is the list obtained from the web pages by fetching publications registered by the authors as Conference Papers.
Journal publication is a longer process than publication in conference proceedings so one might expect that it occurs after the end of a project's lifetime as archival medium for those results which are considered long lasting and of permanent value. In MOLTO we have already succeeded to list the following journal publication:
Books and proceedings has also been published and is currently being translated to Chinese,
Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, Online Proceedings of the FreeRBMT12, the Third International Workshop on Free/Open-source Rule-based Machine Translation, June 2012 Gothenburg, Sweden. Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg Technical Report Number 2013:03, (2013). 1652-926X (ISSN).
Controlled Natural Language, Third International Workshop, CNL 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, August 29-31, 2012. Proceedings Editors: Tobias Kuhn, Norbert E. Fuchs ISBN: 978-3-642-32611-0 (Print) 978-3-642-32612-7 (Online)
The following work has appeared as chapters of books:
Jeroen van Grondelle, Christina Unger: A 3-Dimensional Paradigm for Conceptually-scoped Language Technology [to appear], Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web, Springer, Autumn 2013.
Several junior members of the MOLTO team have completed their studies and written master or dissertation work related to tasks carried out as part of some work package. Some are continuing work that began in MOLTO as part of their thesis research. They include:
Enache, Ramona (2011, Licentiate). Automating the development of multilingual grammars. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.
Angelov, Krasimir (2011, PhD). The Mechanics of the Grammatical Framework. Göteborg: Chalmers University of Technology. Diss. ISBN/ISSN: 978-91-7385-605-8
Virk, Shafqat (2012, Licentiate). Computational Grammar Resources for Indo-Iranian Languages. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.
Dannélls Dana (2012, PhD). Multilingual text generation from structured formal representations. Data Linguistica. University of Gothenburg. [pdf]
Listenmaa I. 2012. Ontology-based lexicon management in a multilingual translation system – a survey of use cases. Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki. Download: listenmaa_masters_thesis_2012.pdf (1.05 MB)
Ramona Enache (PhD, Forthcoming). Frontiers of Multilingual Grammar Development (prelim.). Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.
The project meetings were held every six months and always included a day which was open to participants from outside the Consortium: the MOLTO Open Day. The talks delivered by the MOLTO project members were targeted to a generic audience with no specific background assumed except for interest in the goals of MOLTO. The presentations are all available from the project's web site.
Additionally the project organized focused meetings:
The GF Summer School is a biannual event, these were partly sponsored by the project:
A number of GF tutorials were held during the past years during which the MOLTO tools are shown and actively used:
The press releases were done at the beginning of the project and have been already reported in Deliverable 10.1. Each public event has been publicized by the local organizers via their official channels, so that announcements have appeared in calendars, bulletins and mailing lists.
Liaison with other EU-funded projects in the area of Computational Linguistics took place at international meetings where MOLTO was presented. The most relevant result to report however is joint work carried out with the MONNET project after organizing a joint meeting and a joint workshop reported before.
On December 13 and 14, 2012, PortDial members from Bielefeld met with Aarne Ranta (Grammatical Framework), Jeroen van Grondelle, Frank Smit and Jouri Fledderman from Be Informed, and John McCrae (lemon) in order to discuss the mapping from ontology-lexica to grammars, as well as the modular combination of induced domain grammars with dialog task grammars. The meeting gave rise to new ideas for the top-down grammar induction process being implemented. Moreover, the MOLTO-MONNET cooperation crystallized in the joint project proposal 611008- ADOPT coordinated by MONNET's coordinator Paul Buitelaar for combining the approaches, submitted as FP7-ICT-2013-SME-DCA but not granted.
MOLTO is a member of META-NET (http://www.meta-net.eu/) and more specifically of META-Share. The MOLTO language technologies, resources, and tools are being distributed to members of the computational linguistics community under LGPL, consistent with the collaboration agreement signed with META-Share. As part of the liaison activities within META-NET, MOLTO also gave feedback for the final version of the strategy document for the META-NET agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020 (http://www.meta-net.eu/sra-en).
In January 2012, A. Ranta presented MOLTO at Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, in a seminar that has been video recorded and is published online at http://videos.xrce.xerox.com/index.php/videos/index/618.
MOLTO has been hosting the FreeRBMT conference in June 2012, with a special workshop day devoted to explore the possible cooperation between Apertium (http://www.apertium.org/) and MOLTO: results are already tangible, especially with respect to the adoption of the lexicons from Apertium.
MOLTO used the World Wide Web as its main channel for continuous dissemination and archiving. The project's web site, registered at http://www.molto-project.eu, has been designed mainly to support the internal management of the project, several sections are open only to registered members of the Consortium. Gradually, as work progressed and results became available, we added some public sections however we have leveraged the possibility to be present on popular social sites to push news to the readers outside the Consortium, most prominently Twitter and LinkedIn. Recently we added a Consortium-only Google community page, which could in the future help maintain informal ties among the Consortium members and those interested in the future of the MOLTO technologies. It is not yet clear for how long the URL of the project's website will be maintained but we plan to freeze the contents shortly after the end of the project and to produce an archival version. The most important documents will be stored also as multimedia showcase, as required in Appendix X to Annex I.
In addition to the project's site, MOLTO has published multimedia content on:
Screencasts for some of the MOLTO tools have appeared on Screenr (http://www.screenr.com/user/MOLTOproject).
Events of interest have been advertised via newsletters and mailing lists (MT, EAMT) and social sites, in particular:
Partners have featuring the MOLTO work on their websites (searching link:molto-project.eu yields about 45 hits).
The project coordinator and the workpackage leaders have been reachable for questions by a contact form accessible online. Recurring questions have been answered in the FAQ: http://www.molto-project.eu/view/faq, commonly edited by all registered users.
The publication list appearing on the website is an extensive reference list of the results of the project. It includes also software and other media. The RSS feed for the publications appearing in MOLTO is http://www.molto-project.eu/biblio and currently lists 224 items, many of which are the slide presentations delivered during the project's related events.