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The MaLex project is a cooperation between the Centre for Language Studies at the University of Malawi and the Institute for Languages
and Communication Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim Norway. The project is financed by [http://www.uib.no/fa/intkont/nufu/nufu.htm NUFU] Prof. Lars Hellan is the Norwegian coordinator and Prof. Al Mtenje is the coordinator in Malawi.

The "LEX" in Malex stands for "lexicon" and lexica will be among the results of the project. A second focal area of MaLex is an in-depth annotation of representative corpora of the languages of Malawi, starting with Chichewa.

The goals of TypeCraft within the MaLex project are: 

* an in-depth linguistic annotation of representative text fragments of Chichewa.
* within this overall goal the annotation of technological terms used in the medical campaign against HIV/AIDS is of special importance.