The application, developed in C#, automatically identifies the language of a text written in one of the 21 European Union languages. By using training texts in different languages (approx. 1.5Mb of text for each language), a training module counts the prefixes (the first 3 characters) and the suffixes (4 characters endings) for all the words in the texts, for each language. For every language two models are constructed, containing the weights (percentages) of prefixes and suffixes in the texts representing a language. In the prediction phase, for a new text, two models are built on the fly in a similar manner. These models are then compared with the stored models representing each language for which the application was trained. Using comparison functions, the best model is chose. More detailed descriptions are available in [[http://www.racai.ro/~tufis/papers|the following papers]]: -- Dan Tufiş, Radu Ion, Alexandru Ceauşu, and Dan Ştefănescu (2008). RACAI's Linguistic Web Services. In Proceedings of the 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008. ELRA - European Language Resources Association. ISBN 2-9517408-4-0. -- Dan Tufiş and Alexandru Ceauşu (2007). Diacritics Restoration in Romanian Texts. In Elena Paskaleva and Milena Slavcheva (eds.), A Common Natural Language Processing Paradigm for Balkan Languages - RANLP 2007 Workshop Proceedings, pp. 49-56, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2007. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria. ISBN 978-954-91743-8-0. -- Dan Tufiş and Adrian Chiţu (1999). Automatic Insertion of Diacritics in Romanian Texts. In Ferenc Kiefer, Gábor Kiss, and Júlia Pajzs (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Lexicography (COMPLEX 1999), pp. 185-194, Pecs, Hungary, May 1999. Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The database will contain an etymological lexicon of Saami languages complete with detailed source citations. The database will be open to the public in November 2006 and will be updated regularly.
ANNIS2 is an open source, versatile web browser-based search and visualization architecture for complex multilevel linguistic corpora with diverse types of annotation. ANNIS, which stands for ANNotation of Information Structure, has been designed to provide access to the data of the SFB 632 - "Information Structure: The Linguistic Means for Structuring Utterances, Sentences and Texts". Since information structure interacts with linguistic phenomena on many levels, ANNIS2 addresses the SFB's need to concurrently annotate, query and visualize data from such varied areas as syntax, semantics, morphology, prosody, referentiality, lexis and more. For project working with spoken language, support for audio / video annotations is also required.