Name of research group: Human Language Technologies

Overview:
This group is concerned with all aspects of NLP. Active research areas include:

- Computing with Maltese
- Computational Lexicon
- Machine Translation
- Natural Language Generation
- Speech Technologies

Members:
Michael Rosner
Ray Fabri (Institute of Linguistics)
Albert Gatt (Institute of Linguistics)
Paul Micallef
Angelo Dalli
Jo-Ann Bajada (MSc Student)

Past members:

Paulseph Farrugia, MSc 2007
Sinclair Calleja, MSc 2005
Doreen Mizzi, BSc IT (Hons) 2005
Ruth Mizzi

Projects:
Maltese Language Resource Server (MLRS) - RDTI supported development of a computational framework for language resources, a computational lexicon and a basis for linguistic research on Maltese.


Publications:

 
Maltilex: A Computational Lexicon for Maltese pp 97-105 Proc. Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, COLING/ACL98)

M. Rosner and P. Micallef (2000), The Development of Language Resources for Maltese, Proc. Workshop on Developing Language Resources for Minority Languages, LREC2000 Athens.

M. Rosner, The Future of Maltilex (2002), Proc. LREC2000, Las Palmas, Canary Islands.

M. Rosner and D. Mizzi (2004) in Anja Belz, Roger Evans and Paul Piwek, Three Scenarios for Navigational Advice Generation, Technical Report ITRI-04-01 INLG04 Posters: Extended abstracts of posters presented at the Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation, ITRI, University of Brighton.

V. Kordoni, H. Uszkoreit, M. Rosner, V. Kubon, S. Kirchmeyer Andersen (2005), Language Technology from a European Perspective, ACL-05 Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor.

Contact details:
M. Rosner , Department of Computer Science and AI, University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, Msida MSD 06, Malta.

Phone: 2340 2505

Fax: 2134 6674