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The work at XRCE (Xerox Research Centre Europe) focuses on increasing productivity in the workplace through new document technologies. While drawing on the strength of the Xerox Corporation around the world, XRCE’s focus is on Europe. XRCE’s primary activity is research. XRCE collaborates with a wide range of European research organizations, and works with the business divisions of Xerox and with customers to understand their strategy and requirements. The Xerox Research Centre Europe is committed to inventing and designing document technologies that business both needs and wants. It pursues a vision of document technology where language, physical location and medium - electronic, paper or other - impose no barrier to effective use.

Core competencies of XRCE relevant to the CACAO project are shallow and deep parsing, as well as semantic processing carried out by “Parsing and Semantics” area.

XRCE has a large experience in multilinguality. At a low level of linguistic processing it has tools for tokenization and morphological analysis and part-of speech tagging for a wide range of languages. At a higher level, XRCE has developed tools for syntactic processing for German, English and French. Furthermore, Word Sense Disambiguation algorithms and methodology has also been developed at XRCE. Finally, different kind of multilingual thesauri are also available.

Xerox is the coordinator of the CACAO project and in charge of the technical development of linguistic tools and algorithms. It works in close collaboration with CSI (French Library Partner). Xerox will also be responsible of the interface development.