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The main goal of the present grant is to formulate a systematic overview of recent trends of development and new tools of concept-based language processing, and their requirements as applied to the Estonian language. The concept-based approach to language processing has undergone a very rapid progress in recent years and as its result a quite new situation in the relationship between language technology and theoretical linguistics has arised. This has caused a need to get an overwiev of these developments and to create a programme for their application in the Estonian language processing. The second goal is to carry out concrete research in areas which in any case form the basis of concept-based language processing: 1. semantic metalanguage (ontology): categories, their relationships; 2. relationship between syntax and semantics (semantics of syntactic constructions); 3. semantics of word classes (e.g. verbs, adjectives); 4. word sense disambiguation programs. These tasks presuppose remarkable development of the following excisting semantic resources of Estonian: 1) semantic database (wordnet): at least to 30 000 entries; 2) semantically disambiguated text corpus - at least to 100 000 words. |