On June 1, the European Union Horizon Europe-funded project "EUROPEAN LEXICOGRAPHIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ELEXAI)" was launched. One of the project partners is the Institute of Humanities of the The Faculty of Human and Social Studies at Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) (Prof. Dr. Sigita Rackevičienė, Prof. Dr. Liudmila Mockienė).
The project aims to fundamentally update the European lexicographical infrastructure ELEXIS – a common European digital system for the creation, storage and use of dictionaries and other language resources. This infrastructure will be redesigned using the latest artificial intelligence (AI), in particular large language models (LLM) and the new opportunities they open up in the field of language technologies.
One of the main goals of the project is to present lexicographic knowledge in a form understandable and processable by computers and to integrate it into AI systems. This will allow to develop more accurate and advanced multilingual artificial intelligence technologies, and their results, in turn, will help to further improve dictionaries and other language resources.
In order to assess the effectiveness of these solutions, an evaluation methodology will be developed and applied. It will help to ensure the reliability and consistency of the results of AI 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, uniting lexicography, computational linguistics and AI specialists from 26 institutions in 23 European countries. The long-term sustainability of the infrastructure will be ensured by cooperation with two European research infrastructures – CLARIN and DARIAH – and with ALT-EDIC, a new European initiative dedicated to the development of open multilingual language models.
The project is coordinated by the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, and the project manager is Dr. Simon Krek.
