m creates basic
tools for linguistic analysis, e.g. morphological analysers, parsing and
generation platforms and corpus analysis tools. These tools are used to develop
descriptions of various languages and the relation between them. Currently under
development are phrasal parsers for French and German, a lexical functional
grammar (LFG) for French and projects on multilingual information retrieval,
translation and generation.

Founded in 1979, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is
a non-profit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific
understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and
their embodiment in machines. AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of
artificial intelligence, improve the teaching and training of AI practitioners,
and provide guidance for research planners and funders concerning the importance
and potential of current AI developments and future directions.

The Institut Dalle Molle pour les etudes semantiques et cognitives (ISSCO)
(Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies) is a research
laboratory attached to the University of Geneva, Switzerland, which conducts
basic and applied research in computational linguistics (CL), and artificial
intelligence (AI). The site gives a presentation of the ISSCO projects (European
projects, projects of the Swiss National Science Foundation, projects of the
French-speaking community, etc.).

Created by the Foundation Dalle Molle in 1972 for research into cognition and
semantics, ISSCO has come to specialize in natural language processing and, in
particular, in multilingual language processing, in a number of areas : machine
translation, linguistic environments, multilingual generation, discourse
processing, data collection, etc. The University of Geneva provides
administrative support and infrastructure for ISSCO. The research is funded
solely by grants and by contracts with public and private bodies.

ISSCO is multi-disciplinary and multi-national, "drawing its staff and its
visitors from the disciplines of computer science, linguistics, mathematics,
psychology and philosophy. The long-term staff of the Institute is relatively
small in number; with a much larger number of visitors coming for stays ranging
from a month to two years. This ensures a continual exchange of ideas and
encourages flexibility of approach amongst those associated with the Institute."

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