Framework project structure: Approved by CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure), Certificate No. 11372/DOC-176. Implementation period: 28.10.2024 – 27.10.2027

Project objectives:

• organization and coordination of academic and technical activities related to digital linguistics and lexicography;
• research and development in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP);
• semantics research of linguistic units focused on digital linguistics and NLP applications.

Key project tasks:

• development and exchange of digital language tools and web services;
• exchange and/or linking of digital linguistic datasets;
• development and establishment of interoperability for AI-compatible lexicographical standards for European languages, specifically:
  • DMLex Standard – Data Model for Lexicography;
  • OntoLex Standard – Lexicon Model for Ontologies;
• facilitating the interoperability of lexical and lexico-phraseological data of European national languages;
• advanced scientific research in digital lexicology and lexicography;
• development and linking of Large Language Models (LLMs) for AI;
• application of Large Language Models (LLMs) for the research and implementation of AI-based digital lexicography;
• knowledge exchange, including the organization of training sessions and research visits between partner institutions;
• organization of international conferences, workshops, and other academic events related to the project’s scope;
• other activities conducive to the achievement of the aforementioned objectives.

Partner institutions

• Coordinating Institution: Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Artificial Intelligence (Slovenia) – Project Coordinator: Simon Krek;
• Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH), Austria;
• Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, Latvia;
• Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
• Institute for Digital Resources and Interdisciplinary Research, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania;
• Society for Danish Language and Literature, Denmark;
• Dutch Language Institute (Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal), Netherlands;
• Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia;
• Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia;
• School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA CLUNL), Portugal;
• National Library of Norway, Norway;
• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy;
• Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Ukraine;
• Trier Center for Digital Humanities, University of Trier, Germany;
• HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary;
• Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria;
• Institute for Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli", National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ILC), Italy.

Institutional project coordinator: Rusudan Makhachashvili, Head of SRL of Internationalization of Higher Education, Doctor of Science in Philology, Professor.