WebALT

Web Advanced Learning Technologies

European digital content for the global networks project
Contract Number EDC-22253

The WebALT project showcases a significant application that uses a combination of existing standards for representing mathematics on the web and existing linguistic technologies in order to enable the creation of language-independent mathematical content.

The WebALT project will create software and sample content for an XML database of mathematical problems to be used in undergraduate university courses in mathematics. The technological solutions to be developed by the project can be directly applied to any middle and high school mathematics instruction.

Mathematics problems will originally be written in English with a number of additional XML tags which make it possible to generate versions of the problems in many languages. Initially the project will produce translations of the problems into Catalan, Dutch, Finnish and Spanish.

The two year project starts on January 1, 2005. The total cost of the project is estimated to be 2.5 million € (3.2 million US$). WebALT solutions will be commercially developed and marketed by WebALT Inc.

	Project Coordinator Dr. Mika Seppälä Mika.Seppala<at>webalt.net Professor Math – University of Helsinki and Florida State University	Project Manager Dr. Olga Caprotti Olga.Caprotti<at>webalt.net University of Helsinki Department of Mathematics and Statistics P.O. Box 68 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b) FI-00014 University of Helsinki
	Partners of the Project
	Dr. Sebastià Xambó Professor and Dean Technical University of Catalonia Barcelona	Dr. Lauri Carlson Professor Linguistics – University of Helsinki
	Dr. Ramon Eixarch CEO Maths for More, Barcelona	Dr. Arjeh Cohen Professor Technical University of Eindhoven
	Dr. Andreas Strotmann University of Cologne