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GRANTS AND FUNDING

Dates and Project Title	Sponsors and Partners	Aims and Objectives	Funding Human Resources in person years and Financial in European Currency Units (ECU)
1996-1997 INTERVAL: Interlinguistic Terminology Validation	EU Telematics Programme - Language Engineering (CEC, Luxembourg) Servicios Linguisticos (ES), La Maison du Dictionnaire (FR), Linguistique Comm. Info. (FR), TRADOS (DE), Western Systems (FI).	Automatic Terminology Validation To build information systems for validating terminology data bases and to use the Internet for disseminating methods and techniques for terminology validation	2 person years Contract Value: 50,000 ECU (Overall Val.:466,426 ECU)
1996-1998 ACE: Analyst's Control Environment	ESPRIT Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG (DE), JRC GmbH (DE), SLIGOS (FR), Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Smart Information (DE)	Information Extraction and Categorisation To develop methods and tools for categorising and extracting (financial) information from news-feeds. The extracted information to be used in conjunction with time-series analysis data for forecasting and predicition.	3 person years Contract Value: 200,000 ECU (Overall Val.:1.5 Million ECU)
1995-1996 POINTER: Proposals for an Operational Infrastructure for Terminology in Europe.	Multilingual Action Plan (CEC, Luxembourg) BJL Consult (BE), Servicios Linguisticos (ES), DIT (DE), Inst. Nat. des Telecomm. (FR), Infoterm (AT), Union Latine, Terminology assoications in Catalonia and Basque Country, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal and Greece, & Universities of Barcelona and Paris, and Academia Bolzano	Terminology in Europe: Research, Training, Co-operation and Marketing To advise the EU on matters related to multi-lingual terminology creation and use within the Union, including terminology management systems and the use of Internet for terminology exchange and marketing	1 person year Contract Value: 42,000 ECU (Overall Val.:788,855 ECU)
1993-1995 TRANSTERM: Creation, reuse, normalisation and integration of terminologies in natural language processing systems	ESPRIT Language Engineering (CEC Luxembourg) GSI-ERLI (FR), Aerospatiale (FR), Fiat (IT), Lingsoft (FI), ILLSP (GR), University of Geneva	Terminology Representation and Re-use To adapt existing lexical and terminological data bases for use in conjunction with language engineering products like machine translation systems.	2 person years Contract Value: 90,000 ECU (Overall Val. 1,957,025 ECU)
1990-1993 MULTILEX: Multi-functional Lexica: Specification of European Standards (ESPRIT II Project No. 5304)	ESPRIT Triumph-Adler (DE), Siemens (DE), CAP-Gemini (FR), Philips (NL), L-Cube (GR) and the Universities of Paris, Pisa, Bochum, Münster, UMIST, Grenoble and Salerno	Lexical and Terminological Standards To define the standards for a common European lexicon for a variety of applications including machine translation and knowledge acquisition.	4 person yrs Contract Value: 190,000 ECU (Overall Val.:2.5 million ECU)
1989-1994 TWB I&II:The Translator's Work Bench Projects (ESPRIT III Project Nos.2315 & P6005)	ESPRIT Triumph-Adler (DE), Siemens (DE),. Daimler-Benz (DE), SITE (FR), the CEC Translation Br., INFOTERM (AT), and the Universities of Heidelberg and Catalonia. Collab. with Surrey's Linguistic and Int. Studies Deptt.	Terminology Management To develop methods and tools for building terminology data bases using text collections (text corpora). To test and evaluate terminology manangement systems.	14 person yrs Contract Value: 979,000 ECU (Overall Val.:11.5 million ECU)
1986-1988 KITES: Knowledge-Based Integrated Terminology System	University of Surrey: Special Major Research Award. Collaborative project with the Dept. of Linguistic & International Studies, University of Surrey.	Terminology Management To initiate R&D in terminology by setting up a consortium of European academic, industrial and governmental organisations interested in terminology and term bases	3.5 person yrs Contract Val.: £47,000