This project was aimed at supporting the co-operation of the proponent teams for the application of Multi-Agents Architectures to Natural Language Processing Systems. This project builds on top of the projects: NALAMAS (BR) and DIXIT, PGR, CORPUS and JUSTIÇA (PT). Additional cooperation will exist on training master’s and Ph.D. students.
Started in January 1998 and was concluded in 2001.
Participating entities: CENTRIA - UNL, Dep. Computer Science (Univ. Évora), Inst. Inf. Pontifícia Univ. Católica Rio Grande do Sul de Porto Alegre.
Principal researcher: Vera Lima (PURCS).
Funding entities: Scientific and Technical Inst. for the International Cooperation (ICCTI - MCT), CAPES (Brazil).
Principal researcher: Gabriel Pereira Lopes.
In 2001, a course was taught by Paulo Quaresma in the master’s programme of Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, at Porto Alegre, Brazil, Cooperative dialogues in Information Retrieval. Two publications were produced.
