Common Language Resources and their Applications (CLARA)
The EU project CLARA is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network receiving funding from the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme. NHH’s Department of Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication is one of the nine hosts who offer research training for Early Stage Researchers.
Professional knowledge domains, such as economy, energy and medicine, present special challenges to correct understanding, especially across languages. The project carries out research on theoretical, methodological and technical topics relating to the task of harmonising language resources and terminology for professional domains.
The local project group consists of Gisle Andersen (project leader), Marita Kristiansen, Pedro Patiño García (PhD research fellow), Sunniva Whittaker and Tove Skaar, as well as other visiting scholars.
The specific work of the PhD scholar focuses on parallel corpora, computational terminology and phraseology (collocations), more specifically on methods and tools for semiautomatic term and collocation extraction applied to English and Spanish aligned texts from the subdomain of free trade agreements.
CLARA researcher training course on integration of terminological language resources across domains and languages
In September 2010 NHH hosted a one-week PhD training course on methods and technologies for consolidating and integrating terminological resources across domains and languages. The course consisted of lectures, discussions, hands-on training activities and thesis/project work. For more information about the course see the page Terminology and resource harmonisation.
For more information about the project, see the CLARA website .
