European Commission
Directorate General XIII
Unit E-5, LE Office EUFO 0- 177
Rue Alcide de Gasperi
L 2920 Luxembourg |
Prolingua Ltd.
Cambridge Research Laboratories
181a Huntingdon Road
Cambridge
CB3 0DJ
United Kingdom |
The Judge Institute of Management Studies
University of Cambridge
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1AG
United Kingdom |
Kent County Constabulary
LinguaNet Project
Longport Police Station
Ashford Road, Newington
Folkestone, Kent CT18 8AP
United Kingdom |
Philips Communications Systems
CS Technology
PO Box 80020NL
5600 JM Eindhoven
The Netherlands |
Copenhagen Business School
Handelshøjskolen i København
Dalgas Have 15,
2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark |
Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux II
DLVP/Département de Langues Vivantes Pratiques
3 Place de la Victoire
33076 Bordeaux Cedex
France |
Katholicke Universiteit Leuven
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
Afdeling Strafrecht,
Strafvordering en Criminologie,
Hooverplein 10
B3000 LEUVEN, Belgium |
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Prolingua co-ordinates the entire project
and created the LinguaNet® system prototype. Prolingua's researchers have15 years'
experience designing operational languages and creating multilingual computer systems for
special purpose communications. |
JIMS is responsible for the marketing and
commercial side of the project and carries out a financial and general management
function. It is also responsible for publicity and liaison with other EU Language
Engineering projects. |
The KCC organises, maintains, and monitors
the activities of the user group and the use of the prototype system. They play an
essential role in system design, feedback and evaluation. |
Philips explores and identifies appropriate
technologies, constructs models, demonstrates candidate technologies and investigates
standards for the communications function of the system and for message structure. |
CBS conducts linguistic and terminological
development necessary for the inclusion of the Scandinavian languages and the concomitant
connection of Scandinavian police forces. |
DLVP's tasks mirror the work of CBS in
relation to French and Spanish. CBS and DLVP therefore work in close harmony together. |
KU Leuven is responsible for examining the
legal implications of the LinguaNet system in communicating information between
law-enforcement agencies in different countries. |
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Prolingua Ltd was formed in 1989. It is
involved in developments in computer mediated communications especially those which
operate multilingually. Prolingua designed, provided and maintained the operational
prototype for LinguaNet in 1993. The company is, in concert with police users, the main
driving force in the LinguaNet project and provides project coordination. Prolingua's
researchers have been active in the operational communication and automated translation
field since 1981. |
Management Studies at the University of
Cambridge has a long history, dating back to 1954 when the University accepted an
endowment to support management education, and courses were established in the Department
of Engineering. The Institute of Management Studies was created in 1990 and was later
renamed the Judge Institute of Management Studies. The Institute
collaborates with many other University departments with interests in management studies
and particularly the Engineering Department and the interdisciplinary ESRC Centre for
Business Research. The ESRC Centre draws together a number of departments (Applied
Economics, Law, Geography, Engineering and the Judge Institute).
The close links with the Department of Engineering, coupled with a
strong research profile in the management of technology, are of considerable advantage in
the management of the LinguaNet project. |
The County of Kent is the region of the
United Kingdom closest to continental Europe. Millions of passengers and vehicles use the
busy Kent ferry ports (Dover, Folkestone, Ramsgate, Sheerness and Dartford) and the
Channel Tunnel every year. The Kent County Constabulary has an
operational need for close links with its counterparts in European police forces. The
European Liaison Unit (ELU), based at the Channel Tunnel, acts as the focal point for
cross-channel liaison.
The Constabulary's involvement in the LinguaNet project arose from the
need to underpin this liaison with information technology to facilitate the quick and
accurate flow of operational information. |
Philips, founded in Eindhoven, the
Netherlands, in 1891, is a supplier of products, systems and services in the field of
lighting and electronics. The company has six product sectors, and has national
organisations in over 150 countries. The company is at the
leading edge of research in many areas pertinent to the LingaNet project: mobile radio,
paging, speech recognition, picture compression.
The company is committed to providing technologies to improve the
quality and security of communications for public safety, police, transport and utilities. |
CBS is one of the largest institutions of
research and higher education at university level in Denmark and one of the largest
business schools in Europe with 350 permanent and 900 part time teachers serving about
16,000 students. CBS has two faculties teaching and researching economics, business
administration and modern languages. The Danish LinguaNet partner
is the Faculty of Modern Languages, which is Denmark's leading institute of higher
education in the field of LSP and modern languages including the education of state
authorised translators and interpreters. Among the Faculty's main areas of research are:
LSP, communication and applied foreign language studies (English, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Russian and Spanish), Terminology, Computational Linguistics, Cross cultural
Communication. |
DLVP is the Département de Langues
Vivantes Pratiques of Université de Bordeaux II, in charge of all language teaching
programmes in the University, both as formation initiaile for students and as formation
continue for all kinds of professional needs. DLVP is also the seat of the regional
interuniversity language centre of Aquitaine. Members of staff are all involved in
research projects that have to do with LSP: Languages for Specific Purposes. DLVP conducts
the national DEA (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) d'anglais des spécialités
scientifiques et techniques; méthodologie de la recherche linguistique, didactique,
culturelle et technologique. It is also the seat of GERAS (Groupe d'Etudes et de
Recherches en Anglais de Spécialité). The head of DLVP is currently President of
RANACLES, the French Branch of CERCLES: Confédération européenne des centres de langues
de l'enseignement supérieur. About 70% of all French doctorates in English for specific
purposes are defended at DLVP each year. |
The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven was
established in 1425 and has been a respected world-wide centre of study for the last six
centuries. The history of the School of Criminology started in 1929, when it was founded
within the Faculty of Law. Until the late 1960s, the School of Criminology remained a
centre for the specialised training of lawyers, medical doctors, psychologists,
sociologists and pedagogics. Since 1968, the Catholic University of Leuven has offered a
complete and independent education in criminology. Over the last twenty years, empirical
criminological research has become a very important part of the activities of Leuven
criminologists. The research group 'Police and Judicial Organisation' specialises on the
following topics: International Police Cooperation; Methods of
private investigation and security;
Cooperation between Belgian police forces. Within the LinguaNet
Project, the Leuven researchers are focusing on the legal constraints on the international
exchange of information between the police forces of the United Kingdom, France, Belgium,
the Netherlands and Denmark. |
R Cencioni - Head of the LE Sector
Tel +352 4301 32859 (direct line) +352 4301 32886 (secretariat)
Fax +352 4301 34999 R Havenith EC Official in charge of
LinguaNet Project
Tel +3 52 4301 34656
Fax +352 4301 34999 |
Edward Johnson
Tel +44 (0) 1223 276815
Fax +44 (0) 1223 276813
email (Edward Johnson) Edward.Johnson@prolingua.co.uk
email (general) prolingua@prolingua.co.uk David Matthews
Tel +44 (0) 131 472 4750
email Dave.Matthews@prolingua.co.uk |
Colin Gill
Tel +44 (0) 1223 338177 (Mill Lane)
+44 (0) 1223 339606 (Judge)-direct
+44 (0) 1223 339700- switchboard
Fax+44 (0) 1223 338076 & 339701
email cgg@eng.cam.ac.ukMarie Discry, Doreen Bailey
Tel/ Fax +44 (0) 1223 339609
email mhjd@eng.cam.ac.uk
email Doreen.Bailey@prolingua.co.uk |
D.Supt. Cliff Grieve,
D.I. John Gledhill,
D.C. Kevin Mitchell
Tel +44 (0) 1303 289271 & 289273 Fax +44 (0) 1303 289229
email (LinguaNet KCC)
LinguaNet_KCC@ prolingua.co.uk |
Mark Rayne
Tel +44 (0) 1223 585214
email rayne@ukpmr.cs.philips.nlPascal Chapelot
Tel +44 (0) 1223 586343
email ukcchap@ukpmr.cs.philips.nl |
Henrik Selsoe Sorensen
Tel +45 38 15 38 15
Fax +45 38 15 38 65
email henrikss/FRA@cbs.dkInge Gorm Hansen
Tel +45 38 15 31 51
Fax +45 38 15 38 45
email igorm/ENG@cbs.dk |
Michel Perrin
Tel +33 57 57 18 91 (direct)
+33 57 57 18 03
Fax +33 56 31 86 17
email michel.perrin@lv.u-bordeaux2.frClaire Perrin |
C. Van Outrive
Tel +32 16 48 84 58Patrizia Klinckhamers
Tel +32 16 32 53 07
Fax +32 16 32 54 27
email patrizia.klinckhamers@law.kuleuven.ac.be
Geert Lauwers
Steven Gibens |
