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European project hopes to improve multilingual Internet use
A project partnered in particular by the Ontology Engineering Group at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid School of Computing, is aiming to boost the accessibility of using the Internet in many different languages.
The Monnet project, a joint operation between a number of European organisations and higher education institutions, intends to build multilingual ontologies to retrieve and present information across languages, hoping to meet the new industry and government needs to better exploit information available on the Internet.
The project, which will focus on applications for both business and public sector use, is particularly relevant in today’s modern world, where super-fast technological connections and widespread globalisation mean that all Internet users – regardless of their native language – should be able to access the same information. Calls for multilingual computer solutions have come from such organisations as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). The development would also significantly boost the participation of developing countries that have not been able to contribute largely to web construction because access in their own language is unavailable.
Some of other higher education institutions and organisations that will be working alongside the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid include the University of Bielefeld, Germany, The National University of Ireland and Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI-Galway), the Dutch company Be Informed and Brussels-based XBRL Europe. The Monnet project has also organised the First Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web, an event co-located with the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010) in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA on 27th April.
For more information on the Monnet project, please visit the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s website.
Published: Tuesday, 20th April 2010 by Tom Freeman
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