Scientific Achievement 2009 – Project Developed by the Faculty of Computing

“The aim of the project is to help Latvia integrate semantic technologies. Originally the technology “Semantic Latvia” was developed as a means of modernizing national administrative functions – more effective integration and utilization of the information stored in various national registers. With the help of the prototype created as a part of the project, experts of different fields can easily access any relevant data stored in the database and not only those data predefined for selection by the creator of the particular information system. The new approach has already remarkably improved the usage of Latvian medical statistics data and the same could be achieved also in other fields,” said the project leader Dr.Sc.Comp. Prof. Guntis Bārzdiņš. The four-year project was developed at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, as a part of the Latvian National Research Program "Scientific Foundations of Information Technology". Dozens of scientists have participated in the development of the project at various stages. The project included not only the applied technology “Semantic Latvia”, but also analysis of retrieval methods for natural language semantics, such as the set of tools for grammatical and semantic processing of the Latvian language which is now available also on-line under the name “SemTi Kamols”. Students take part in the research of themes related to this technology as well – ten Master’s papers have been written and five doctoral students are involved in this research.


Translated by students of the professional study programme Translator of the University of Latvia.