Nordic Language Technology Visit to Tallinn

Local host and contacts

Institute of the Estonian Language

The main research fields are:

computational representation of Estonian grammar: rule- based morphology, grammatical information in dictionaries;
representation of the lexical-semantic system of Estonian: organisation of lexicon, structural mark-up, formal metalanguage for dictionaries;
phonetics and phonology: Estonian prosody modelling, connections of syntactic and prosodic features.

LT Unit works in close collaboration with all departments of the Institute in creating language resources: formal grammars, electronic versions of traditional dictionaries, on-line lexicons and databases: the English-Estonian Dictionary for automatic translation, linguistic information database, diphone database for the text-to-speech synthesis, etc. LT Unit has created various software for language technology. Most programmes are distributed as freeware to promote language technology in Estonian. LT Unit coordinates the Estonian language portal KeeleWeb http://ee.www.ee/ which integrates language resources and language software in one environment. At November 1, 2004 we will start (together with our partners) a new Internet environment Keelevara (http://www.keelevara.ee), which is a professional multi-language electronic dictionary that includes advanced language sensitive search options. LT Unit has participated in the EU projects (GLOSSER, CONCEDE, etc.) and in common state financed programme of language technology together with the University of Tartu, and Tallinn Technical University.

Dr. Urmas Sutrop, Director
Institute of the Estonian Language
Roosikrantsi 6
EE-10119 Tallinn, Estonia
Phones +372 6449843 and +372 5207188; Fax +372 6411443

Tallinn Technical University

Einar Meister, PhD
Laboratory of Phonetics and Speech Technology
Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn Technical University
Akadeemia tee 21, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
phone: +372 6204200; mobile: +372 5264406; fax: +372 6204151

Tallinn pedagogical university

(please check the following:) Computer science, and Linguistics
Tallinn pedagogical university Narva mnt.25; 10120 Tallinn
Telefon: (+372) 6409 101; Faks: (+372) 6409 116

Programme (tentative)

Friday morning, e.g. 9:00 - 11:30: Minibus from Tartu to Tallinn
11.30 - 12.00: visit to Tallinn Pedagogical University (TPU)
12.00 - 13.30: lunch (organised by TPU)
13.15: arrival to Institute of the Estonian Language (IEL)
14.00 - 14.20: presentation of delegation
14.20 - 14.40: presentation of IEL
14.40 - 15.00: presentation of TPU
15.00 - 15.20: coffee break
15.20 - 15.40: presentation of Institute of Cybernetics
15.40 - 16.30: discussion

Equipment available

For the presentation, there is ... available. (data projector? Internet connection?)