CESAR Project: Bridging Language Technology in Central & Southeast Europe
Learn about the CESAR project led by Mladen Stanojević, focusing on enhancing language resources and technologies in Central and Southeast Europe. Explore the consortium's objectives, activities, and impact on regional stakeholders. Discover the geo-linguistic significance and the mission to bridge technological advancements across Europe.
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Participant Experience: CESAR Project Mladen Stanojevi , PhD Institute Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia Mladen.Stanojevic@pupin.rs Information Day for Call 7 of ICT PSP Belgrade, 28.02.2013 Co-funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission through the contract T4ME, grant agreement no.: 249119. Co-funded by the ICT PSP Programme of the European Commission through the contract CESAR, grant agreement no.: 271022.
Outline CESAR consortium Project objectives Activities of Serbian partners How we got involved Preparation of project proposal Project administration Advices to newcomers http://www.cesar-project.net 2
Geo-linguistic position CESAR stands for CEntral and Southeast EuropeAn Resources Operates as integral part of META-NET Geo-linguistic spread Central and Southeast Europe three inner seas: Baltic, Adriatic, Black Sea CESAR covers languages Polish EU, 38M (40-48M) Slovak EU, 5.4M (7M) Hungarian EU, 10M (16M) Croatian EU in 2013, 4.4M (5.5M) Serbian candidate, 7.3M (9M) Bulgarian EU, 7.5M (9M) All languages Slavic, except Hungarian http://www.cesar-project.net 3
Who is CESAR? Participant no. Participant organisation name Participant short name Country 1 (CO) Nyelvtudom nyi Int zet, Magyar Tudom nyos Akad mia HASRIL Hungary 2 Budapesti M szaki s Gazdas gtudom nyi Egyetem BME-TMIT Hungary 3 Sveu ili te u Zagrebu, Filozofski Fakultet University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences FFZG Croatia 4 Instytut Podstaw Informatyki Polskej Akademii Nauk IPIPAN Poland 5 Uniwersytet Lodzki Ulodz Poland 6 Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade UBG Serbia 7 Institut Mihajlo Pupin IPUP Serbia 8 The Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin IBL Bulgaria 9 Jazykovedny stav Ludov ta St ra Slovenskej Akad mie Vied LSIL Slovakia http://www.cesar-project.net 4
Project objectives Provide a description of the national landscape in terms of Language use, language-savvy products and services, language technologies and resources Contribute to a pan-European digital language resources exchange (META-SHARE) Enhance, extend, document, standardize, cross-link, cross-align resources and tools Mobilise national and regional stakeholders, public bodies and funding Reinvigorate cooperation between key technology partners in the region Collaborate with other partner projects Bridge the technological gap between this region and the other parts of Europe http://www.cesar-project.net 5
Where to find CESAR www.meta-net.eu http://www.cesar-project.net 6
www.cesar-project.net http://www.cesar-project.net 7
Activities of Serbian partners University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics Several language resources in Serbian (Serbian WordNet, monolingual and multilingual corpora, dictionaries, etc.) Institute Mihajlo Pupin Make NooJ open source Make NooJ platform independent Make NooJ maximally interoperable by making sure it will seamlessly work with major tools Common activities The Serbian Language in the Digital Age, LWP Series, Springer, 2012 CESAR Roadshow dissemination event, Belgrade, October 2012 http://www.cesar-project.net 8
How we got involved EC diagnosed an acute lack of language resources for many European Langauges META-NET FP7 Network of Excellence ICT PSP Call for proposals to enhance language resources for different European languages (CESAR, META-NORD, METANET4U) Institute Mihajlo Pupin is not involved in developing language technologies or providing language resources Prof. Sanja Vrane is an evaluator for FP7 ICT project proposals (Digital Content, Language Technologies) http://www.meta-net.eu 9
Preparation of project proposal Provide a PIC and appoint LEAR Find and join the consortium Fill-in Part A online forms Create Part B (what will be done in the project) http://www.meta-net.eu 10
Project administration Technical administration Activities according to DoW (deliverables on time) Review meetings (reviewers check the work done comparing to DoW) Financial administration Timesheets Salaries Receipts for all costs (travel, equipment, subcontracting, etc.) Financial reports http://www.meta-net.eu 11
Advices for newcomers Competition is much lower than for FP7 project proposals Improve your networking (evaluators, reviewers for FP7 projects) Do not act as a Project Coordinator, but join an existing consortium Appoint F/A officer for efficient administration of the project All activities are funded 50% by the EC, so you have to provide another 50% on your own http://www.meta-net.eu 12
Q/A Thank you very much for your attention! http://www.cesar-project.net office@meta-net.eu http://www.meta-net.eu http://www.facebook.com/META.Alliance 13
