Linguistics Laboratory SIG
Linguistics Laboratory SIG has been established as a centralized web page for the researchers in computational linguistics. The aim of it is to increase cooperation between different research groups, share data resources and software tools.
Participants
- CorAlit team—Corpus of Academic Lithuanian (www.coralit.lt)
- Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology
- Vilnius University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
- Center of Computational Linguistics of Vytautas Magnus University (donelaitis.vdu.lt), Kaunas
Partners
- Text-to-Speech Analysis and Synthesis group at Vilnius University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (Pijus Kasparaitis, pijus.kasparaitis (at) mif.vu.lt)
- TextGrid—Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities
- NKJP Consortium (National corpus of Polish)
Ongoing Work and Future Plans
Currently Coralit team is working on finishing the public web site of Corpus of Academic Lithuanian (www.coralit.lt), encoding and preparing digital resources for corpus and developing various tools.
The center of computational linguistics of Vytautas Magnus University is working on digitalizing spoken and written language sources, maintaining them, grammatical and semantic analysis and many other language research fields.
Coralit team and the center of computational linguistics of Vytautas Magnus University have established a cooperation plan for developing common standard for corpus data storage. Successful implementation of such standard will create possibilities for common tools development, data sharing, enlarged data sources for researches, etc.
Coordinator
In order to join this SIG contact the following persons:
Linas Būtėnas, linas.butenas (at) mif.vu.lt
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University
Vilnius, Lithuania

