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BLARK Definition and BLARK Content
- for written language

The degree to which the modules are needed is marked by plus signs:
+++ means essential
++ means very important
+ means important.

HLT modules and corresponding written language resources, marked with importance:
(Follow the blue links to see the BLARK Content.)

Resourcs	Monolingual Lexicon	Multi-/bilingual Lexicon	Proper names	Thesauri, ontologies, wordnets	Unannotated corpora	Annotated corpora	Parallel Multiling corpora	Multimodal corpora for (hand) OCR	Multimodal corpora for (typed) OCR
HLT modules
Morphological comp. (infl, deriv., stemm., diacritic, ...)	+++					++
Morphological comp. (statistical)	+					+++
POS disambiguator/tagger	+++		++
POS (statistical)	+		++
Diacritizer	+++		++	++
Diacritizer (statistical)						+++
Sentence Boundary Detection (punctuation)	+++					++
Sentence Boundary (statistical)						+++
Named Entity Recognition	+++		+++			+
Named Entity (statistical)						+++
Word Sense Disambig.	+++				++	++
Word Sense Disambig. (statistical)						+++
Term extraction	+++				+++
Term extraction (statistical)					+++	+++
Shallow parsing	+++
Shallow parsing (statistical)						+++
Syntactic analysis comp.	+++					+
Syntactic Anal. comp. (statistical)						+++
Semantic Anal. comp. (incl. coref.res.)	+++			+++
Sentence synthesis and generation	+++			++	+	++
Transfer tool (Software)		+++
Transfer tool (statistical)							+++
Alignment	+++	+++					+
Alignment (statistical)							+++
Grapheme recognition typed OCR (statistical)	++				+++				+++
Grapheme recognition handwritten OCR (statistical)	++				+++			+++

Written language applications and corresponding HLT modules, marked with importance:
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Applications	Document prod.	Summa.	Classif.	Indexing	IE	IR/ filtering	MAT	MT	ASR Dictation	TTS	Dialog Systems
HLT modules
Morphological comp. (infl, deriv., stemm., diacritic, ...)	+++	+++	+++	+++	+++	++	+++	+++	++	+++	+++
POS disambiguator/tagger	+++	+++	++	+++	+++	++	+++	+++	++	+++	+++
Diacritizer										+++
Sentence Boundary Detection (punctuation)	+++	+++			+++	++	+++	+++		++	++
Named Entity Recognition	+++	+++	+++	+++	+++	+++	+++	+++		+	+
Word Sense Disambig.		+++	+++	++	+++	++	++	+++		+++	+++
Term extraction	+	+++	+++	+++	+++	+++	+++	+++			++
Shallow parsing	++	++	+		++	+	+++	+++		++	+++
Syntactic analysis comp.	++				++		++	+++		+	+++
Semantic Analysis (incl. coref.res.)		++	++	+	+++	++	++	++		+	+++
Sentence synthesis and generation	++	+++					++	+++			+++
Transfer tool (Software)								+++
Alignment							++

MEDAR is supported by the European Commission's ICT programme and is running from
February 1st 2008 until July 31st 2010