Language Technologies - Theories and Applications

摘要

Language technologies are very lively interdisciplinary area of research and applications in the fields of informatics, information technologies and linguistics. Natural languages are the common spread way of communication and they have been studied and described from ancient times till nowadays. At the same time, the information technologies applications offer fast ways of processing and exchanging linguistic information of different kind - textual, audio, visual, etc. by means of various programming products and some of them (like e-mails) are widely used nowadays for communication purposes independently of the language used. Language technologies, also, are applied very, successfully in language research, and particularly in lexicography for fast production and updating of different language reference sources like dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. In our talk, we are going to analyze the general ideas and problems in design and applications of language technologies products including with a multilingual purposes.