Regards, Hamidreza Ghader
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ralf Steinberger < ralf.steinberger at jrc.ec.europa.eu> wrote:
> Dear Hamid,****
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> At the European Commission’s *Joint Research Centre* (JRC), we have
> developed the *Europe Media Monitor* (EMM) family of applications (
> http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html), which includes Farsi. ****
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> EMM collects Farsi news (together with another 50 or so languages) and
> displays them in EMM-NewsBrief and in EMM-MedISys (Medical Information
> System). If you go to ‘advanced search’, you can display all the news
> sources monitored. Farsi news then get classified according to the many EMM
> categories and they will be displayed together with those in the other
> languages, if found.****
>
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> In EMM-NewsExplorer (
> http://emm.newsexplorer.eu/NewsExplorer/home/fa/latest.html), we display
> the biggest news cluster of any given calendar day (for 20 languages,
> including Farsi), together with information we manage to extract. We aim to
> extract entities (persons and organisation names), geo-locations and
> quotations. We also try to link the Farsi news to those in (a subset of)
> other languages and to the news published in previous days.****
>
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> NewsExplorer also collects information found on entities over time and in
> many languages, and it displays this information on mixed-language pages
> (e.g. http://emm.newsexplorer.eu/NewsExplorer/entities/en/101358.html for
> Mahmoud Ahmadinejad).****
>
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> I do not think our Farsi information extraction tools work particularly
> well, but we intend to put some more effort into the Farsi tools soon.****
>
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> For an overview of the EMM applications, you can read:****
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> Steinberger Ralf, Bruno Pouliquen & Erik van der Goot (2009). An
> introduction to the Europe Media Monitor Family of Applications<http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Documents/09_SIGIR-WS_Steinberger+frontmatter.pdf>.
> In: Fredric Gey, Noriko Kando & Jussi Karlgren (eds.): Information Access
> in a Multilingual World - Proceedings of the SIGIR 2009 Workshop
> (SIGIR-CLIR'2009), pp. 1-8. Boston, USA. 23 July 2009.****
>
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> Greetings, currently from LREC in Istanbul, and best wishes for your
> interesting effort.****
>
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> Ralf****
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> *Ralf Steinberger* ****
>
> European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC)****
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> URL of the lab: http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ ****
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> *From:* corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] *On Behalf
> Of *Hamid Reza Ghader
> *Sent:* 24 May 2012 10:01
> *To:* corpora at uib.no
> *Subject:* [Corpora-List] NLP labs that have active projects on Persian***
> *
>
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> Dear scientists,
>
> We are going to develop a list of all NLP labs around the world that have
> active projects on Persian language. So I decided to ask you all to give me
> your lab name and homepage address if you have any project related to
> Persian language in your lab. I appreciate if you provide a brief
> description of the Persian related project of yours.
>
> Regards,
> Hamidreza Ghader
> Natural language and Text processing Laboratory
> School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> University of Tehran
> Iran
> http://ece.ut.ac.ir/nlp/ ****
>
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