Project sponsors
The CADIAL project is jointly supported by the Government of Flanders (under the grant KRO/009/06) and the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.
Project coordinators
Promotor: Prof. Marie-Francine Moens, Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Partner: Prof. Bojana Dalbelo Bašić, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), University of Zagreb, Croatia
Contact
Prof. Bojana Dalbelo Bašić
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER)
University of Zagreb
Unska 3
10000 Zagreb, Croatia
e-mail: ktlab@fer.hr
Project awards
Prime Minister Award
The CADIAL project was awarded the Prime Minister Award for special achievements in the field of e-Government. The CADIAL search engine is the first system that implements Eurovoc thesaurus for structuring and retrieval of legislative documents in Croatian.
VIDI e-novation award
The CADIAL search engine was awarded the VIDI e-novation award 2009 "Golden Tesla's egg" for the best innovative ICT solution in the category of academic institutions.
Croatian Television aired the story about CADIAL project results promotion in their weekly show "eHrvatska" on December 23, 2009. The story (in Croatian) can be viewed here, or you can download the full video in high quality from here.
Summary of the project results
The CADIAL project was successfully finished on September 15, 2009 with the following main results:
- the complete database of the 20.000 legal documents of the Republic of the Croatia indexed with descriptors from the Eurovoc thesaurus;
- publicly accessible CADIAL search engine (cadial.hidra.hr) that operates on that database (see CADIAL leaflet);
- the book Technologies for the Processing and Retrieval of Semi-Structured Documents that summarizes the research work carried out within the framework of the CADIAL project and the implementations of the research results;
- a number of publications: journal and conference papers, invited lectures, book chapters, and the book (for a detailed list see Project Publications);
- eCADIS system for automatic document indexing with descriptors from Eurovoc thesaurus (for more details see Project Results).
The promotion of the CADIAL project results was held at Croatian Journalists' Association conference hall in Zagreb on November 11, 2009. More details about the event can be found here.
Croatian Television aired the story about CADIAL project results promotion in their weekly show "eHrvatska" on November 22, 2009. The story (in Croatian) can be viewed here, or you can download the full video in high quality from here.
Project duration
March 1, 2007 – September 15, 2009