Modelling and designing multilingual cognitive systems for collaborative research A progress report

This paper reports on current work at the University of Vienna on creating a multilingual cognitive system for collaborative domain communication a) in the field of risk management and b) in a digital humanities collaborative virtual research environment. The task of computational modelling and of designing the cognitive system is described with a focus on the cognitive user requirements in terms of research processes as well as the nature and types of data dealt with in computational science. Two case studies are included from ongoing projects: a) in the field of cross-disciplinary risk research and risk management; b) in the field of digital humanities concerning computational linguistics research on the use of the German language as well as on computational translation studies.