EMLex at Univeristy of Vigo!

Researchers from eight universities gathered at the University of Vigo’s Pontevedra campus to advance the Esmas-Es+ project, an initiative aimed at developing an automatic multilingual semantic tagging tool that helps computer systems understand the meaning of words and expressions more accurately. The project combines linguistics, artificial intelligence, and language technologies to create a prototype capable of automatically assigning semantic labels to texts. These labels provide information about the meaning and context of words, improving applications such as AI systems, machine translation, and information analysis.

Launched in 2023 and coordinated by María José Domínguez of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Esmas-Es+ brings together more than 15 researchers from institutions in Spain, Portugal, and Chile. The project seeks to develop and validate a multilingual semantic tagging system covering Galician, Spanish, French, and German.

The meeting in Pontevedra concluded with a public outreach session linked to the European Master in Lexicography (EMLex), offering participants an introduction to semantic tagging and the ontological routes used by the prototype.

More information here.