The most important research topics which are relationated with the Human Language Technologies are the following ones:

1. The German Research Centre

 The German Competence Centre for Language Technology was founded as a public service to the global R&D community in language technology and neighbouring technology areas, to the German IT industry and to German companies and other organizations planning to employ language technology applications. In addition to a wide variety of free service functions, the Centre also offers highly specialized professional services to private customers.

The Competence Centre comprises the following components:

·        The Virtual Information Centre “Language Technology World”, the world’s most comprehensive information resource about speech and language technology.

·        The Demonstration Centre in Saarbrücken, which offers interested parties the possibility to play and experiment with different speech and language technologies, or to attend guided demonstrations.

·        The Evaluation Centre, which conducts evaluations of the overall usability of language technology systems and advances knowledge of relevant usability issues and evaluation methods.

   2. The Edimburgh Language Technology Group

·        Combining Shallow Semantics and Domain knowledge (EASIE).

·        Text Mining for Biomedical Content Curation (TXM).

·        Cross-retail multi-agent Retail Comparison (CROSSMARC).

·        Smart Qualitative Data: Methods and Community tools for Data Mark-up (SQUAD).

·        Machine learning for named Entity Recognition (SEER).

·        Joint Action Science and Technology (JAST).

·        Study of how pairs collaborate when in planning a route on a map (Collaborating using diagrams) 

 

3. The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)

In the area of language and speech processing we are conducting both basic and applied research. We develop linguistic resources and processes as well as application prototypes

 

      3.1 Linguistic resources and processes

 

·        Typed unification-based grammar formalisms 

·        Development of a HPSG-based grammar for German 

·        Natural Language Generation 

·        Speech Synthesis 

·        Computational Morphology 

      3.2 Application Prototypes

 

·        Natural language interfaces and advisory systems

·        Concept-to-speech systems

 

 

 

Sources:

·     The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence from http://www.dfki.de/lt/lt-general.php

·     The Edimburgh Language Technology Group from http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/projects

·     The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) from http://www.ofai.at/research/nlu/