Research on Language Technology, with particular emphasis in practical applications in the short and medium term. Links to research projects and university courses.

Focus on delivering information "that is relevant to and appropriate for users receiving it". Research areas include Natural Language Processing (or Language Technology), User Modelling, Multimodal Interaction, Interactive Information Retrieval, and Tailored Information Delivery.

Research in statistical language modelling, language understanding, knowledge discovery, linguistic annotation, high performance computing, and digital language archiving.

A University of Sydney research group. Research on machine learning, XML/SGML markup, and tagging.Projects,resources,applications.

"Research in modelling and processing human languages, especially for German. This includes constructing linguistic resources (such as lexicons, grammars, discourse models), processing algorithms (such as morphological components, parsers, generators, speech synthesizers, discourse processing components), and application prototypes (such as natural language interfaces, advisory systems and concept-to-speech systems)."

The main objective of the Centre for Computational Linguistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is to promote basic research in formal and computational linguistics, and the application of this research in natural language processing.

"Computers are used to understand the structure and meaning of "natural languages" such as English, French, and Spanish." Machine translation, computer-assisted language learning, information extraction, natural language interfaces. Publications online.

NLPLab in the Northeastern University focuses on scientific research and education in Natural Language Processing (especially in Chinese language processing). The lab started NLP research in the early 1980s.

Research on knowledge and reasoning, document processing, interpretation, generation and dialogue processing, and question/answering. Links to members, topics, reports. Versions in English and French.

This research lab of the German DFKI research institute has several projects on language technology.

Research focus on theoretical and practical aspects of discourse processing, both text and dialogue. Maintains the Potsdam Commentary Corpus.

(Greece) National Technical University of Athens, Natural Language Processing Lab - http://ntua.ntua.gr/nlp/ Research related to Greek language including linguistic knowledge representation, computational grammars, semantic WEB and terminology. The site is in Greek and English.

NCSR "DEMOKRITOS" is the biggest state-run research centre in Greece. The Software & Knowledge Engineering Lab (SKEL) at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR develops technologies that address the emerging problem of information overload exploiting techniques and tools from the areas of Language technology, Personalization, Knowledge discovery in data, Multimedia processing.

The group focusses on developing tools, technologies and products for Indian languages especially for Tamil. Research projects include Machine Translation, Information Retrieval(IR), Information Extraction(IE) and developing tools and lexical resources including a Tamil WordNet.

A research group from the Indian Institute of Technology. Varied research including machine translation and processing of Hindi.

A research institute of the Instituto Trentino di Cultura focusing on NL generation, information extraction, dialogue and multimodality, linguistic resources and tools, parsing, and formal linguistics.

The homepage of the head of this lab. Links to nearly all products of the Lab. Areas of interest are computational syntax, semantics, anaphora resolution, lexical resources. The Lab organizes an annual international conf, see www.cicling.org.

This group is part of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam. Research on representational and algorithmic aspects of computational linguistics and computational logic. Links to news, people, publications, research, and teaching.

Research on word sense disambiguation, question answering and information retrieval.

Natural Language Group at the Spanish National Distance University (UNED). Research on natural language processing applied to information access, evaluation of information access systems, and acquisition and representation of lexical and grammatical knowledge.

Main research fields are related to the use of multilingual lexical resources, information extraction from documents, design of NL interfaces, basic NLP techniques (tagging, parsing, sense disambiguation), NL understanding and Knowledge Representation. Tools and demos available.

Performs research within all aspects of human language and computers. Research on spell and grammar checking, text filtering and categorisation, summarisation, text extraction, generation, and information retrieval. Some of the contents are in Swedish.

Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology's center of research in knowledge discovery, information engineering, speech and natural language processing.

TCL carries out research on knowledge, language and information, including Human Language Technology, Intelligent Information Infrastructure and Open Source Software related for language processing.

CCALAS is an "umbrella" linking researchers interested in computer analysis of language and speech at the University of Leeds.

Britain's special interest group for computational linguistics. News, organizational information, and general information on the British natural language processing research community.

A research and development group working in the area of natural language engineering. The site contains several software tools free to academic research groups.

An interdisciplinary research group at the University of Edinburgh with interests in dialogue, mechanisms of language processing, graphics & language, and technology.

An institute at the University of Edinburgh that focuses on research on communication among humans and between humans and machines using text, speech, and graphics, and the design of interactive dialog systems.

A University of Edinburgh research unit. "Our research involves applying mathematical and computational modelling techniques to traditional issues in the evolution of communication and language, historical linguistics, and language typology." Site lists group members, online papers, software, and related links.

This is the Department of Artificial Intelligence's Natural Language Processing group. Research on natural-language interfaces, representations of meaning, and the mathematical study of the properties of linguistic notations and rule systems.

Research on various areas of natural language processing, intelligent agents and information retrieval. Links to projects, publications, and tutorials on NLP.

Research projects include ones on language processing resources and tools, logic and formalisms, natural language front ends, speech processing, automatic summarising, text and spoken message retrieval, natural language processing for formal specifications, and the acquisition of lexical knowledge and construction of multilingual lexical knowledge bases.

Group working on computational linguistics with a strong emphasis on constraint-based linguistics. Site includes member pages, online papers.

The primary research areas of the group include statistical information retrieval techniques, multimedia browsing and retrieval, and personal information management and retrieval.

"Architectures for NLP, NL Analysis (IE and Dialogue), NL Generation and NLP Resources and Tools." The developers of GATE.

Research on corpus annotation, formalisms, lexical acquisition, parsing

A research group which develops and applies the theory of Word Grammar. Site lists members and some relevant publications.

A Carnegie Mellon University research center that focuses on multi-lingual machine translation. Links to projects, personnel, job openings, and technical reports.

This center focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology related to Information Retrieval and Question Answering.

Pursues research in natural language generation, concept-to-speech generation, summarization of news, statistical language modeling and digital libraries. Info on their projects, people, publications, software tools, events.

Descriptions of current projects and links to published papers. Covers the areas of syntactic disambiguation, selectional constraints and semantic similarity.

Concentrates on multilingual processing of natural language texts. Core research areas are: AI, computational linguistics, and human-computer interaction. Has papers, data, and software.

A University of Rochester research group that investigates conversational interaction through the study of machine-human interaction. Program information, current projects, tools for corpus linguistics and discourse transcription, archive of downloadable papers.

Information about people, projects, publications, datasets, and courses. Research on an wide range of areas.

An independent research center devoted to research in the emerging science of information, computing, and cognition. Founded by researchers from Stanford University, SRI International, and Xerox PARC.

A University of Texas research group. Research in NLP and speech recognition and synthesis. Links to people, projects, publications.

Links to various projects on speech and language technology. Based at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

The Natural Language Processing group at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (USC/ISI) is currently involved in various aspects of computational linguistics/natural language processing.

MITRE's research efforts in the area of information access includes work in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

"Committed to finding novel and efficient computational methods that rival human performance in natural language competency tasks." Information on their people, conferences and meetings, links, courses, facilities, software tools.

Research in this group focuses on segmentation and language acquisition.

This research group "focuses on applying both empirical and knowledge-based learning techniques to natural language processing, text mining, recommender systems, inductive logic programming, knowledge and theory refinement, planning, and intelligent tutoring."

Information on their projects, people, publications, and employment opportunities.

Research group of the MIT AI Laboratory. A key on-line system is START, Natural Language question-answering over several topics.

Provides information about the people and projects in the NLTT group at PARC. Includes a short history and a list of selected papers. Research includes parsing and Lexical Functional Grammar.

A group of scholars at the University of California, Berkeley, studying the connections between neurology, computing and language learning. Current projects, research articles, and an overview of the group's history and purpose.

Information on their projects in multimedia/multimodal interfaces, spoken language systems, written language systems. Links to the projects, publications, staff.

ULG "is a group of graduate students from the Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments, who share interests in data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, pattern recognition and related areas."

A team working on basic products for multilingual language analysis, providing current projects, demos, and an archive of publications. Includes an online demo guessing 47 languages.