Multext-East: Multilingual resources for Central and Eastern European languages

Summary of session: This session will describe the major results of the Multext-East project, an EU funded project under the Copernicus program, which had as its goal the creation of significant resources in six central and eastern european languages. The resource creation utilized tools, standards, and methodologies developed in the Multext project, thus providing for their validation and extension to accommodate the new languages. The session will provide an overview of the project, discussion of the development of lexical specifications for the languages, and a description of the comparable and parallel corpora developed by the project.