We can find many research centres for Human Language Technologies all over Europe. Here we have some information about some of the most important ones:
– German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence.
Originally named Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, this research centre is one of the largest research centres that does research about Artificial Ingelligence.
It was founded in 1988 (so it’s about 21 years old) and it’s based in Kaiserslautem (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), Saarbrücken (Saarland, Germany), Bremen (Germany) and Berlin (Germany).
The key directors of this research centre are Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (CEO) and Dr. Walter G. Olthoff (CFO), and the main objective of the DFKI (Deutsches Forchungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz) is to trasnfer all the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence from the lab to the marketplace as fast as possible.
This is the official site for the centre: http://www.dfki.de/web
– Lenguaia Naturalaren Prozesamendurako IXA Taldea
This centre was founded in 1988 and it’s been getting larger and larger every year. Right now, 31 computer scientists and 14 linguists from the University of the Basque Country work for this group.
The principal objective of this centre has been, since the beggining, to promote the modernization of the Basque language by developing some basic computational resources for it. The result of all this work can be seen in the group’s webpage, which is the one over here: http://ixa.si.ehu.es/Ixa/Aurkezpena
– The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group
This group or centre is a team of the Stanford University, a team of faculty, postdocs and students who work together.
The centre covers areas such as sentence understanding, probabilistic parsing and tagging, biomedical information extraction, grammar induction, word sense disambiguation and automatic question answering.
The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group has members not only from the Linguistics Department, but also from the Computer Science Department, and it’s affiliated with both the Stanford AI (Artificial Intelligence) Lab and the Stanford InfoLab.
References:
- German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence. (2008, December 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:03, March 25, 2009, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Research_Centre_for_Artificial_Intelligence
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, GmbH, DKFI. (2009, February 2). In Mathematics on the Web: Get it by Logics and Interfaces. Retrieved 16:08, March 25, 2009, from: http://mowgli.cs.unibo.it/html_yes_frames/sites/dfki.html
- Lenguaia Naturalaren Prozesamendurako IXA Taldea. In IXA Taldea’s webpage. Retrieved 17:10, March 25, 2009, from: http://ixa.si.ehu.es/Ixa/Aurkezpena
- The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group. In Stanford University page. Retrieved 17:50, March 25, 2009, from: http://nlp.stanford.edu/
