RESEARCH CENTRES of HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES in EUROPE (questionare 1)

I’m going to talk about the three more important centres in Europe, the one of Edinburgh (the Edinburgh Language Technology Group), the THE German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, and the Natuional Centre for Languge Technology of Ireland.

Edinburg Languge Technology Group (LGT)

This investigation group has been working since 1990 in Natural Language Engeenering. First of all it was part og the Human Comunication Research Centre, but nowadays it is in the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems of the University of Edinburgh, one of the largest communities in Europe. Their objective is to build solutions that are practical to real problems in text processing.

The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

This centre of investigation, is one of the biggest institutes of the world who work in software technology based on Artificial Inteligence (AI).

It was founded in 1988 and nowadays is situated in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and Berlin.
Microsoft, SAP, BMW and DaimlerChrysler are one of the companies thath we can find in the DFKI shareholders. The DFKI works in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including image and pattern recognition, knowledge management, intelligent visualization and simulation, deduction and multi-agent systems, speech- and language technology, intelligent user interfaces, business informatics and robotics.

DFKI worked with the national proyect called Verbmobil, a proyect that tried to translate speech bidirectionally for German/English and German/Japanese.
Nowadays they have more than 90 proyects ongoing in the investigation centre.

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY, IN IRELAND

This centre works in the field of the automatic translation, natural language parsing, grammar induction, question answering, sentiment analysis, computer-aided language learning, software localisation, speech recognition and speech synthesis. The researchers were taken from the School of Computing, the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies and the School of Electronic Engineering.
We have to mention that this centres is affiliated with the Centre for Next Generation Localisation.

REFERENCES

* Edinburg Languge Technology Group (LGT), on February 28, 12:15. http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/

* German Research centre for artificial inteligence, in wikipedia. retrieved on February 28, 12:32. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFKI

* National centre for language technology in Ireland, retrieved on February 28, 12:57. http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/