The development, and therefore, the improvement that Human Language Technologies continualy undergoes since its origins requires a non-ceasing research and investigation activity in order to keep up with the needs and demands of the user of these technolgies. Language technology centres and laboratories invest in research in order to offer better services. Here are some of the current research projects mentioned in some of some of the main sites on human language technologies:
Machine Translation.
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understaning.
COLLATE (Computational linguistics and Language Technology for real life applications):
Multi-level annotation of large corpora.
Natural language interaction with electronic information services.
The extraction of information from large volumes of digital texts.
The management of large information repositories by improved retrieval and summarization functions
Human Language Technology Research Institute:
Innovations in language analysis.
Innovations in question processing.
New forms of editing using semantic information.
Extractions and iference of answers based on events inter-relationships and context sensitive inference over multiple sentences and discourse fragments.
National Centre for Language Technology: Computer assisted language learning (Call)
Machine translation and translation technology
Semantics
Speech Technology
Multilingual Information retrieval and extraction.
Language evolution
German research Centre for artificial Intelligence (Language Technology Lab)
Exploiting – and automatically extending – ontologies for content processing.
Tighter integration of shallow and deep techniques in processing.
Enriching deep processing with statistical methods.
Combining language checking with structuring tools in document authoring.
Document indexing for German and English.
Automatically associating recognized information with related information and thus building up collective knowledge.
Automatically structuring and visualizing extracted information.
Processing information encoded in multiple languages, among them Chinese and Japanese
http://prhlt.iti.es/
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/collate http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu/page.php?p=index http://www.computing.dcu.ie/research/nclt/ http://www.dfki.de/lt/projects.php
