FIRST

Researchers involved in the FIRST project are presenting papers at the Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA) workshop organised in conjunction with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2012) in Istanbul in May 2012. The focus of the workshop is on tools and resources for making textual information more accessible to people with special needs. Prof. Mitkov, the coordinator of the FIRST project, is the invited speaker of the workshop and his presentation will focus on the FIRST project. 

This week marked the fifth annual World Autism Awareness Day on April 2. 

World Autism Awareness Day was declared by the United Nations General Assembly five years ago as an annual day to draw attention to the urgent needs of people with autism around the world.

Autism is extremely common. Approximately 1 in 150 people have it [1]. Yet it is a condition that is very often misunderstood and many people with autism across Europe still lack basic access to accurate diagnosis, appropriate treatment, education, employment and social inclusion.

For 5 million people in Europe who have autism, greater awareness is urgently required to enable them to live up to their full potential.

Listen to the UN Secretary General's message for WAAD 2012

We are pleased to announce that the FIRST project has officially started. This website will be updated with the latest information regarding the project. Please visit again soon.