WP8 Case study: cultural heritage - M30

Summary of progress

The data collection (D8.1) and first prototype of grammars (D8.2) were delivered on time. The grammar prototype has six languages, but is being extended to 15. It implements the generation of describing texts from facts in the database. The final system (delivered as a part of D8.3) will also allow natural language queries about museum objects, applying the technology developed in WP4.

In addition to Gothenburg City Museum, there has been interest to this WP from the Europeana project http://www.europeana.eu/portal/ A plan for later dissemination of the work includes the generalization of the results by making them available for Europeana. Also the Monnet project http://www.monnet-project.eu/ has a common interest in this WP in the area of ontology localization and verbalization.

The work in this workpackage in particular addresses multilingual text planning, and was exploited in D8.2 and has resulted in two publications in 2012; see WP10.

Highlights

• Delivery of D8.2, Multilingual Grammar for Museum Object Descriptions

Deviations from Annex I

The schedule for D8.3 is postponed from M30 to M36 due to a delay in the PhD defense of Dana Dannélls, one of the key persons of this WP; as a bonus, MOLTO can then fully profit from her thesis work funded from other sources.