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The creation of language-sensitive computer programs is of immense interest in the context of the evolving information society, particularly in Malta. However, Maltese currently lacks suitable language resources, especially corpora, that is large repositories of text or speech in machine readable form. These are regarded as key enablers in three main areas:
- natural language processing systems and tools;
- linguistic research that yields new knowledge about the language itself;
- language-related industries such as software localization, translation, publishing etc.
The Maltese Language Resource Server (MLRS) is a project coordinated by the Institute of Linguistics and the Department of Intelligent Computer Systems at the University of Malta whose primary aim is to create and make available basic language resources for the Maltese language, as well as develop natural language processing tools for Maltese. The project has benefited from funding from the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) and the University of Malta.