Language Technologies

Most of the research carried out by the institute applies methodologies developed in the field of computational linguistics. This holds true for the projects concerning both lexicography and terminology. In particular, corpus linguistics and approaches of data modeling and user adaptation are applied. By means of adaptive interfaces data access is customised to facilitate the processes of orientation and learning.

The activities of the institute comprise the creation and use of monolingual and aligned multilingual corpora, the latter being special language corpora for the legal domain. Employed in terminology work the corpora also function as an archive of data on the language and are consulted for the investigation of linguistic phenomena. Within all projects a special focus is put on the representation of data. Complex sets of data have to be arranged in a manner that guarantees flexible as well as user friendly data access. Their application in the field of computer-assisted language learning allows the user to benefit from a customized learning process as well as the online availability of the given resources.

• ELDIT
  (electronic learner's dictionary German - Italian)
• e-LIS 
  (electronic bilingual dictionary Italian Sign Language - Italian)
• bistro
  (Information System for Legal Terminology)
• LexALP
  (harmonisation of the quadrolingual terminology of the Alpine Convention)
• Korpus Südtirol (Corpus South Tyrol)
  (Collection, filing, and corpus linguistic processing of South Tyrolean Texts)
• Gymnazilla
  (learning languages while browsing the web)

The institute's research projects also focus on:

Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Specialised Communication

The Institute also offers different services:

consulting, teaching, cooperation

last update 29.2.2008