Next lines will deal with the most recent research topics mentioned in some important sites on Human Language Technology from different research centers in Europe:
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence is at the moment working in the following research projects:
- CoSy-Cognitive Systems for Cognitive Assistants
- HyLaP-Hybrid Language Pricessing Technologues for a personal associative information access and managemente application
- K-Space-Knowledge Space of semantic inference for automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content
- MESH-Multimedia Semantic Syndication for Enhanced News Services
- MUSING-MUlti-Industry, Semantic-based Next Generation Business INtelliGence
- PAVOQUE-PArametrisation of prosody and VOice QUality for concatenative speech synthesis in view of Emotion expression
- QALL-ME-Question Answering Learning technologues in a multilingual and Multimoda Enviroment
- RASCALLI-Responsive Artificial Situated Cognitive Agents Living and Learning on the Internet
In Ireland, the National Centre for Language Technology is developing on:
- CALL Computer Assisted Language Learning-Integrating CL/NLP/HLT Technology into CALL, CALL for Endangered Languages, CALL for Primary School Environments, CALL for Remedial Learners
- Corpus Linguistics- Statistical and Rule-Based MT (SMT, RBMT), Example-Based MT (EBMT), Translation Memories (TMs), Boosting Existing MT Systems, Machine-Aided Translation (MAT), Computer-Aided Translation (CAT), Controlled Languages
- Treebank-Based Unification Grammar Acquisition-Automatic Feature-Structure Annotation Algorithms, Subcategorisation Frame Extraction, Wide-Coverage Robust Probabilistic Unification Grammar Acquisition, PCFG-Based LFG Approximation, HPSG Acquisition, Multilingual Treebank-Based Grammar Acquisition
- Semantics-Discourse Representation Theory, Linear-Logic Based Semantics, Computation of Logical Forms from Treebanks, Open-Domain Question Answering Systems
- Speech Technology- Speaker Characterisation, Audio Classification, Retrieval and Coding, Human Computer Interfaces (HCIs)
- Multilingual Information Retrieval/Extraction
- Language Evolution
The OFAI Language Technology Group is now involved in four projects and in some of these projects, there is a cooperations with Austrian university departments and companies.
- VSDS: Viennese Sociolect and Dialect Synthesis (2007 – 2009)
- SEMPRE: Semantically Aware Profiling for Recommenders (2007 – 2008 )
- INSPIRATION (2006 – 2010)
- RASCALLI: Responsive Artificial Situated Cognitive Agents Living and Learning on the Internet (2006 – 2008 )
In Edinburgh is possible to find their Language Technology Group which is on research and development of the following listed topics:
- EASIE-Combining Shallow Semantics and Domain Knowledge
- TXM-Text Mining for Biomedical Content Curation
- CROSSMARC-Cross-retail Multi-agent Retail Comparison
- SQUAD-Smart Qualitative Data: Methods and Community Tools for Data Mark-Up
- SEER-Machine Learning for Named Entity Recognition
- BOPCRIS-Named entity tagging of historical parliamentary proceedings
- Synthesis-Integrated Models and Tools for Fine-Grained Prosody in Discourse
- JAST-Joint Action Science and Technology
- AMI and AMIDA-AMI consortium projects that are developing technologies for meeting browsing and to assist people participating in meetings from a remote location
- Collaborating Using Diagrams-Study of how pairs collaborate when in planning a route on a map
Sources:
- Language Technology Lab, Retrieved 31 March 2008 http://www.dfki.de/lt/projects_list.php?mode=p
- National Centre for Language Technology, Retrieved 31 March 2008 http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/research.html
- OFAI Language Technology Group, Retrieved 2 April 2008 http://www.ofai.at/research/nlu/projects.html
- Edingburgh Language Technology Group, Retrieved 8 April 2008 http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/projects