European Lexicographic Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence (ELEXAI), No. 101293013
Project No.: 101293013
Project duration: June 1, 2026 – May 31, 2029
Project coordinator: Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Project partners: Stichting Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Netherlands), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Galway (Ireland), Estonian Language Institute (Estonia), Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany), CLARIN ERIC (Netherlands), ELTE Research Center for Linguistics (Hungary), Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University (Ukraine), The Danish Language and Literature Society (Denmark), Leibniz Institute for the German Language (Germany), Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o. (Czech Republic), University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Spain), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy), Institute for the Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin (Bulgaria), Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (North Macedonia), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), University of Belgrade – Faculty of Mining and Geology (Serbia), Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), Accademia Europea di Bolzano (Italy), Athena – Research and Innovation Center (Greece), Wrocław University of Technology (Poland), DARIAH ERIC (France), Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities (Serbia), and ALT-EDIC (France).
Project Leader at MRU: Dr. Sigita Rackevičienė
Project Description: The project aims to fundamentally modernize ELEXIS, the European lexicographic infrastructure—a common European digital system designed for the creation, storage, and use of dictionaries and other language resources. This infrastructure will be redesigned using the latest advances in artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs) and the new possibilities they open up in the field of language technology.
One of the project’s key objectives is to present lexicographic knowledge in a form that computers can understand and process, and to integrate it into artificial intelligence systems. This will enable the development of more accurate and advanced multilingual artificial intelligence technologies, and the results of these technologies will, in turn, help to further improve dictionaries and other language resources.
To evaluate the effectiveness of these solutions, an evaluation methodology will be developed and applied to ensure the reliability and consistency of the results produced by artificial intelligence systems. In this way, the project will contribute to the development and improvement of technologies based on natural language processing.
The new virtual lexicographic infrastructure will be developed by an international consortium bringing together experts in lexicography, computational linguistics, and artificial intelligence from 26 institutions in 23 European countries. The long-term sustainability of the infrastructure will be ensured through collaboration with two European research infrastructures—CLARIN and DARIAH—as well as with ALT-EDIC, a new pan-European initiative dedicated to the development of open, multilingual language models.
The project is funded by the European Union’s “Horizon Europe” program.