The Linguistic Engineering Group

The Linguistic Engineering (LE) Group is part of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences (ICS PAS).

People

Core team

Associates

Research

The main research areas of the Group

• (Polish) corpus linguistics; cf. the IPI PAN Corpus of Polish and the National Corpus of Polish,

• syntactic and semantic parsing of Polish; cf. Spejd and Świgra,

• extraction of linguistic knowledge from corpora,
• information extraction,
• sentiment analysis,
• morphosyntactic system of Polish,
• generative linguistic formalisms, esp., HPSG and LFG.

The Group is a member of CLARIN, DARIAH-PL, ELRC, FLaReNet and META-NET.

Current externally funded projects

• CLARIN-PL (Polish chapter of Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure)

• COTHEC (Unified theory of coreference in Polish and its corpus-based verification)

• Chronofleks (A diachronic formal model of Polish inflection and its implementation)

• CoDeS (Compositional distributional semantic models for identification, discrimination and disambiguation of senses in Polish texts)

• DARIAH-PL (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities)

• ELRC (European Language Resource Coordination)

• KORBA (Electronic corpus of 17th and 18th century Polish texts)

• Kwantyfikatory w języku: użycie i znaczenie (Quantifiers in Language: Use and Meaning)

• Parthenos (Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage, E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies)

• Scwad (Compositional distributional modelling of Polish language semantics)

• SYNAMET (Microcorpus of Synaesthetic Metaphors. Towards a Formal Description and Efficient Methods of Analysis of Metaphors in Discourse)

Some of our past projects

• TextLink (Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe)

• Readability (Measuring the degree of readability of nonliterary Polish texts)

• PARSEME (PARSing and Multi-word Expressions. Towards linguistic precision and computational efficiency in natural language processing)

• OPTA (Automatyczne metody rozpoznawania przedmiotów i wyrażeń opinii w języku polskim)

• TrendMiner (Large-scale, Cross-lingual Trend Mining and Summarisation of Real-time Media Streams)

• NEKST (An adaptive system to support problem-solving on the basis of document collections in the Internet),

• SYNAT (Creation of a universal, open repository platform for hosting and communication of networked resources of knowledge for science, education and open knowledge-based society),

• Automatic detection and correction of annotation errors in Polish language corpora,

• ATLAS (Applied Technology for Language-Aided CMS),

• CESAR (CEntral and South-east europeAn Resources),

• Construction of a treebank for Polish using automatic syntactic analysis,

• CORE (Computer-based methods for coreference resolution in Polish texts),

• CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure),

• NKJP (National Corpus of Polish),

• Automatic detection of semantic dependencies within verb argument structures in large treebanks,

• LUNA (spoken Language UNderstanding in multilinguAl communication systems) with the Polish support,

• LT4eL (Language Technology for eLearning),

• Automatic extraction of linguistic knowledge from a large corpus of Polish,

• Information Extraction from Polish free text,

• The IPI PAN Corpus of Polish,

• Treebank / Test Suite of Polish Utterances,

• HPSG Grammar of Polish.

Publicly available tools and resources

Here are some of the tools and resources created within our projects. See CLIP pages for a more exhaustive list of Polish tools and resources, including more tools and resources developed at ZIL IPI PAN.

Some tools (all open source, under GPL; see also CLIP):

• Świgra – a DCG parser,

• Spejd – a shallow parsing and disambiguation system,

• TaKIPI – a morphosyntactic tagger for Polish,

• PANTERA – a morphosyntactic tagger for Polish,

• Poliqarp – a corpus indexing and search engine,

• Poliqarp2 – a new generation corpus indexing and search engine,

• Dendrarium – a treebank development system (under development),

• Anotatornia – a system for multi-level manual annotation of corpora (forthcoming),

• WSDDE – a system for designing and performing Word Sense Disambiguation experiments,

• Multiservice – web service for various of our tools,

• TermoPL - multiword terms extraction from text

• DSmodels - web service for calculating word similarity using Polish word embeddings

• etc.

Main resources (many more at CLIP):

• Walenty – a valence dictionary of Polish (described here),

• National Corpus of Polish,

• Polish word embeddings based on NKJP and Wikipedia.

Other activities

Links to some other activities of the Group:

• Journal of Language Modelling

• NLP Seminar at IPI PAN

• conferences organised by the Group:

  • Intelligent Information Systems series of conferences

  • PolTAL 2014 – 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, 17–19 September 2014, Warsaw, Poland

  • TLT14 – 14th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, 11–12 December 2015, Warsaw, Poland

  • CORBON 2016 – Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes workshop at NAACL 2016 (The 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies), 16 June 2016, San Diego, US

  • HeadLex16 – Joint 2016 Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar, 24–29 July 2016, Warsaw, Poland

  • CORBON 2017 – 2nd Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes at EACL 2017 (The 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), 4 April 2017, Valencia, Spain

  • CRAC: Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora, and Coreference at NAACL 2017 (The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies), 6 June 2018, New Orleans, USA

  • 16th ArgDiaP conference, part of the WAW 2018 (Warsaw Argumentation Week), 15–16 September 2018, Warsaw