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The main objective of this project is to facilitate the use of terminological data in NLP systems, thus tackling the critical issue of real site customisation of this type of software.

Two classes of users are foreseen: application developers and terminology builders/administrators.

The project aims (a) to elaborate a standardised generic representation of terminological data, enriched with linguistic information, and of application-specific knowledge derived from the characteristics of terminologies; (b) to implement a modular portable tool-kit allowing the 'reception' of terminological resources and semi-automatic terminology construction from text; and (c) to test the tool-kit on several test sites for five European languages in different application contexts.

The project has been funded by the Commission of European Communities; the project consortium consists of English, French, Greek, Italian, Finnish, Portuguese and Swiss companies and universities.