2.5 Liaison Activities

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.