The main objective of the framework agreement with the National Research Council is the creation of multilingual computational specialist lexicons, in which Italian, which plays a central role, will be placed alongside different languages, representing the different linguistic-typological areas. The final aim is the establishment of an Italian Observatory on Multilingualism, permanent and continuously updated: a database, formalized according to state-of-the-art technologies of computational terminology, to study and understand the relationships and exchanges with other cultures and languages that in throughout history they have come into contact with the Italian people.

The modeling of languages typologically different from Indo-European will allow us to integrate the models on which computational lexicons are based today, which take into consideration almost exclusively the morpho-syntactic characteristics of the languages belonging to the so-called Standard Average European. Furthermore, the creation of these multilingual lexicons will make it possible to enrich the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud with resources dedicated even to underserved languages.

In parallel with the development of the multilingual and multicultural termino-ontological resource, technological and scientific objectives will be pursued which include advances in terms of models and tools for text annotation, representation and manipulation of lexicons and knowledge.

The resulting digital resources (lexicons and texts) and software tools will be made available to the entire community (scientific and otherwise) through CLARIN – IT the Italian hub of CLARIN, the European research infrastructure for digital humanities and cultural heritage.