Projects
Current and Recent Projects
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CTCES (2008–)
Communication Training in Cross-border Emergency Services – funded within the EU Leonardo da Vinci framework -
LCCTV (2007–2009)
Language Competency Certification Tools for the Vocations – funded within the EU Leonardo da Vinci framework -
FuSe (2003–)
Building a parallel treebank with aligned predicate-argument structures -
Languages for
eCommerce (2004–2007)
A web based tool produced by a multi-national team for anyone wishing to develop their skills in web communication for doing business in a foreign language (English, Spanish or German) – funded within the EC Leonardo da Vinci framework -
RomaniS (2002–2005)
Multifunctional annotation of eLearning software for the Romance languages – a collaboration with the Ernst Klett publishing house, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
Past Projects
The Arbeitsbereich Linguistic can look back on a large number of externally funded international projects, with a strong focus in the domains of linguistics (in particular lexicography) and eLearning.
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PortaLingua/liON (2001–2004)
A follow-up project to BabelOn – a cooperation with the University of Bielefeld within the PortaLingua framework ("Hochschulverbund zum Einsatz curricularer Bausteine in der Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – multimediale Lehr- und Lernressourcen für Präsenzlehre, Selbststudium und Weiterbildung") -
Evaluation Neuer Medien in Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften (2001–2003)
A follow-up project to BabelOn which evaluated the impact of the eLearning environment on classroom teaching -
Trimar (2000–2003)
Training in internet marketing – an EU project in the Leonardo da Vinci programme -
Eutrans (1998)
Example-based understanding and translation systems (ESPRIT Project 20268) -
Linguistik und Neue
Medien/BabelOn (1997–2000)
A cooperation with the University of Bielefeld within the eLearning framework Neue Medien in der Hochschullehre, funded by the Universitätsverbund MultiMedia NRW (UVM) -
EurolangQM (1997)
Multilingual eLearning modules Quality management in the metal-processing industry, supported by the EU Leonardo programme -
Train-Educ (1996)
Teaching materials on the use of the Internet for university teachers of English (funded within the INFO 2000 framework) -
DEMOSTEN (1996)
French phrases for advanced learners of French (EC-funded within the Lingua framework) -
MTP and Xlex/www
(1995–2001)
The Münster Tagging Project – a German and an English tagset with rich training data, plus Xlex/www, the web interface of the Xlex suite of tools for linguistic data processing -
GRECOTERM (1993–1994)
Greek and German teaching materials for the vocational training of employees and managers in the tourism sector (EC-funded within the Lingua framework) -
ECO-JURA-DICT (1993–1995)
Multilingual legal and economic terminology for students of economics and the laws (EC-funded within the Lingua framework) -
MULTEXT
(1993–1995)
MULTEXT encompasses a series of projects whose goals are to develop standards and specifications for the encoding and processing of linguistic corpora, and to develop tools, corpora and linguistic resources embodying these standards (EC-funded) -
MULTILEX
(1991–1993)
As part of the EC-funded MULTILEX project (ESPRIT project 5304), the Arbeitsbereich Linguistik has developed the MLEXd standard for the representation of lexicographical data
