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CORPUS OF MALTESE & MALTESE ENGLISH SPEECH

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITAET ZU KOELN    more  Organization address address: ALBERTUS MAGNUS PLATZ city: KOELN postcode: 50923 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Renate Cognome: Peter Email: send email Telefono: -4707475 Fax: -4705451
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	160˙552 €
EC contributo	160˙552 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-10-15   -   2012-06-14

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITAET ZU KOELN  Organization address address: ALBERTUS MAGNUS PLATZ city: KOELN postcode: 50923 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Renate Cognome: Peter Email: send email Telefono: -4707475 Fax: -4705451	DE (KOELN)	coordinator	160˙552.38

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This proposal aims to enable the holder of the fellowship to undertake further training through research with the Inst. für Linguistik – PHONETIK (IfL), Univ. zu Köln. Diversification of competence should allow her to contribute further to research on developing multilingual human language technologies (HLTs), in areas such as text-to-speech (TTS) & spoken language translation involving both Maltese (Mlt) & the variety of English of speakers of Mlt, Maltese English (ME). Like other languages of small communities, Mlt as also ME, are understudied e.g. in their phonetics & phonology, especially their prosody & intonation. Research is hindered by the unavailability of structured resources, i.e. annotated corpora. Limited research often results in poor quality spoken output, particularly of the intonational interface, in HLTs developed for Mlt. This proposal aims to: 1) enable further research on the prosody & intonation of Mlt & ME, in particular on contrastive intonation & on prosody & emotion, by developing computer-based annotation standards & implementing database management techniques for use with spoken corpora of Mlt & ME; 2) provide annotated data from such corpora for use by both the research community & those involved in developing HLT tools such as more natural sounding TTS systems for use in the Maltese context. Working on Mlt in Köln will locate the research in the broad context of multilingualism supported there; work on variation & variability in ME will further understanding of phenomena arising in contexts of languages in contact. More generally, in the spirit of support for cultural & linguistic diversity in Europe, this research will enable Mlt, one of the languages of post-2004 enlargement for which expertise & resources are still in need of development, to “join the club” of other, more widely researched languages, ensuring that the principle of language equality be respected.'