Hans Uszkoreit is a Professor of Computational Linguistics at the Dept. of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics of Saarland University at Saarbrücken. Here it is his definition of Human Language Technology: sometimes also referred to as human language technology — comprises computational methods, computer programs and electronic devices that are specialized for analyzing, producing or modifying texts and speech. These systems must be based on some knowledge of human language. Therefore language technology defines the engineering branch of computational linguistics. We teach computers to communicate with people.
FiLT (Language Technology Documentation Centre in Finland) also define it in his official site: “Language technology is a multidisciplinary field, which studies technical means and methods that can be used to process natural language with computers.
Some well-known applications of language technology are for example automatic authoring tools (such as spell checking) and speech recognition.”
There are many research centres for Human Language Technologies in Europe but i’m going to mention only three:
- DFKI LT German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
- IXA Taldea In Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.
- National Centre for Language Technology In Dublin City University, Ireland
SOURCES:
- DFKI-LT – What is Language Technology (2009) In German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved 12:00, March 25, 2009, from http://www.dfki.de/lt/lt-general.php
- Language Technology Documentation Centre in Finland (2009) In FiLT. Retrieved 12:37, March 25, 2009, from https://kitwiki.csc.fi/twiki/bin/view/FiLT/FiLTWikiEn
- Natural Language Processing (2009) In IXA group. Retrieved 12:40,March 25, 2009, from http://ixa.si.ehu.es/Ixa
- National Centre for Language Technology (2009) In Dublin City University, Ireland. Retrieved 12:42 March 25, 2009, from http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/
- Language Technology Lab DFKI-LT- About (2009) In German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved 13:00, March 25, 2009, from http://www.dfki.de/lt/index.php
