Multilingual Processing in Eastern and Southern Eu Languages: Low-Resourced Technologies and Translation

Product Description W.V.Hahn received his PhD in linguistics in Marburg/Lahn and is professor for linguistics and computer science in Hamburg/Germany. His research fields are specialized languages and machine translation. C. Vertan has a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Bucharest ans is senior researcher at the university of Hamburg /Germany. Her major research fields are: machine translation and crosslingual retrieval. About the Author This volume draws the attention to many specific challenges of multilingual processing within the European Union especially after the recent successive enlargement. Most languages considered are not only "less resourced" in terms of processing tools and training data but have also features which are different from the well known international language pairs. The 16 contributions address specific problems and solutions for languages from south-eastern and central Europe in the context of multilingual communication, translation and information retrieval.