Aims and activities of the organisation
Adam Mickiewicz University was founded in 1919. Today it has over 40,000 regular students including 1300 doctoral students. Its staff counts over 5000 people, including over 800 professors, 1400 assistant professors, 730 assistants and academic teachers. AMU awards the following degrees: licencjat (three-year), equivalent to the BS/BA degree, following by magister (two-years) equivalent to a MSc/MA; doctorates (PhD) and habilitations.
AMU includes the following faculties: Biology, Chemistry, Educational Studies, Education and Fine Arts, English Studies, Geographical and Geological Science, History, Law and Administration, Mathematics and Computer Science, Modern Languages and Literatures, Physics, Polish and Classical Philology, Political Science and Journalism, Social Sciences, Theology and School of Sports. UAM conducts Turkish languages studies and research.Read more
Computational linguistics at AMU started with the pioneer works in axiomatic phonology and automatization of phonemic transcription of orthographic texts (early 1970s). A decade later the research in computational linguistics resulted with the first implementations of language understanding system for Polish (around 1985). The first research laboratory in computational linguistics was inaugurated in 1993 at the Dept. of Computer Linguistics and AI (DCLAI) at the Fac. of Mathematics. In 1995, the AMU hosted the Awareness Days in Language and Technology (co-organised with the European Commission), now recognized as the first conference of Language and Technology series (LTC). At about that time research activities in computational linguistics emerged in other AMU units, starting with speech processing at the Institute of Linguistics, corpus linguistics at the School of English and (later) machine translation at the Fac. of Mathematics and Computer Science.
The DCLAI carries now projects in various fields of computational linguistics and language engineering, hosts grants and forms PhD students as well post-doctoral fellows. It is a member of META-NET, a Network of Excellence fostering technological foundations of a multilingual European information society.
The role of AMU in the CLASS project
- Developing action plan
- Task distribution among the local project team
- Analyzing the content of international master programs on Computational Linguistics
- Developing, monitoring and approving the master program curriculum
- Responsible for developing the curriculum content materials with UrSU, KSU and NUUz
- Supervising the open online course development and application of blended learning program
- Training the CA academic staff on methodologies and strategies for developing NLP tools
- Consultingon the development of NLP tools in CA partners
- Management and monitoring of WP3 activities
Operational capacity: Skills and expertise of key staff involved in the project
STAFF MEMBERS
Zygmunt Vetulani
AMU Team Coordinator
ll professor. His actual work is focused on formats and language resources for Polish language engineering, formal grammars, computer modelling of language competence for robots, multiagent systems with emulated language competence. Read more
Grazyna Vetulani
Project Member
Born in 1956 at Bydgoszcz, Poland. She studied Romance Philology (M.A., 1979) at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (AMU) and she received PhD in linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University (1988). In 2000 she obtained her post-doctoral degree (pol. doktor habilitowany) from the same university. Head of department of Romance Linguistics and Comparative Studies since 2000 until now. Full professor. Read more Prof. dr hab. Grażyna Vetulani Kierownik Zakładu Językoznawstwa Romańskiego i Badań Kontrastywnych Instytut Filologii Romańskiej UAM Al. Niepodległości 4 61-874 Poznań, Poland +48 601165676
Gulayhan Aqtay
Project Member
She is the founder of teaching Kazakh in Poland. In 2007 she defended her doctoral dissertation “Eliyahu b. Yosef Qilci’s mejuma. Critical edition of the Crimean Karaim manuscript with introduction, notes, comments and indexes.” She reads the following courses to undergraduate and MA students: Practical Kazakh, all levels; Kazakh grammar; Spacial Kazakh; Culture of Central Asia; and Society of Central Asia. Read more