Agreement signed between Rut Foundation and the National Research Council

The President of the National Research Council, Maria Chiara Carrozza and the Rut Foundation have signed a Framework Agreement aimed at encouraging cooperation for the development of strategic collaborations, through the joint implementation of research projects of common interest .

In particular, the collaboration will take place in the following areas of study and research:

• analysis and study of the Hebrew, Italian and other European and Semitic languages through models, approaches and tools of computational linguistics;
• construction of multilingual lexical and ontological digital resources relating to languages and contexts with high social and cultural impact;
• development of digital technologies for the representation, processing, access and dissemination of knowledge to be integrated into a global platform for human rights and communication.

The activities, carried out jointly, will be part of the infrastructural activities that the Institute of Computational Linguistics “Antonio Zampolli” conducts within CLARIN-ERIC – Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, a research of pan-European interest classified as ESFRI Landmark SSH RI in the ESFRI Roadmap 2016 and as high priority in the PNIR 2021-2027) as the implementing institute of ILC4CLARIN, national node of CLARIN, and headquarters of the coordination of the Italian CLARIN-IT consortium. The collaboration with CLARIN will ensure for the data and technologies developed jointly, the care, adherence of the metadata, models and representation formats to international standards, and maintenance throughout the entire life cycle, from the Data Management Plan, up to the their distribution according to the usage licenses, thus ensuring the sustainability of the results of the collaboration.

The methods of execution of the Framework Agreement will be defined by specific operational agreements with the Research Institutes, starting with the “Antonio Zampolli” Institute of Computational Linguistics in Pisa.