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(USA) CSLI Center for the Study of Information and Technology (CSLI) - http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
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. |
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(UK) HCRC - Human Communication Research Centre - http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/
An interdisciplinary research group at the University of Edinburgh with interests in dialogue, mechanisms of language processing, graphics and language, and technology. |
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(Germany) Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at Universität Stuttgart - http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/
Carries out basic and applied research in computational linguistics. Current working groups: Experimental Phonetics, Formal Logic and Philosophy of Language, ParGram (Grammar Development), and the Text Corpora and Lexicon Group. |
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(Germany) Institute for Computational Linguistics and Phonetics at Saarland University - http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/
One of the first computational linguistics departments in Germany. Research topics include language technology, NL parsing, computational semantics, and computational and experimental psycholinguistics. The phonetics department specializes in speech synthesis (TTS, CTS). Closely collaborates with DFKI, which is also located on the Saarbrücken campus. |
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(UK) Edinburgh Language Technology Group - http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/
A research and development group working in the area of natural language engineering. The site contains several software tools free to academic research groups. |
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(Germany) DFKI Language Technology lab - http://www.dfki.de/lt/
Lab of the German DFKI research institute with several projects on language technology and NLP. |
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(UK) ICCS - Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems - http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/
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. |
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(USA) Columbia Natural Language Processing Group - http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/
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. |
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(Spain) UNED NLP Group, Madrid - http://nlp.uned.es/
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. |
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(Thailand) Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory - http://www.tcllab.org/
TCL carries out research on knowledge, language and information, including Human Language Technology, Intelligent Information Infrastructure and Open Source Software related for language processing. |
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(USA) CNLP - Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University - http://cnlp.org
This center focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology related to Information Retrieval and Question Answering. |
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(Finland) FiLT - Language Technology Documentation Centre in Finland - http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/filt/info/index-en.shtml
A association specialised on Finnish research on natural language processing. Links to research projects. |
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(UK) University of Cambridge NLP Group - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/nl/
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. |
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(Greece) NCSR "Demokritos", Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory - http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/
NCSR "DEMOKRITOS" is the biggest state-run research centre in Greece. The Software and 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. |
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(USA) Neural Theory of Language (NTL) Research Group - http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/NTL/
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. |
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(UK) University of Sheffield Information Retrieval Group - http://ir.shef.ac.uk/
The primary research areas of the group include statistical information retrieval techniques, multimedia browsing and retrieval, and personal information management and retrieval. |
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(USA) Conversational Interaction and Spoken Dialogue Research Group - http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/cisd/
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. |
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(UK) University of Sheffield NLP Group - http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/
A very large group of NLP researchers headed by Yorick Wilks. Topics include architectures for NLP, NL Analysis (esp. IE), Dialogue, NLP Resources and Tools. GATE comes from here. |
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(Belgium) Centre for Computational Linguistics - http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/
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. |
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(Australia) Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University - http://www.clt.mq.edu.au
Research on Language Technology, with particular emphasis in practical applications in the short and medium term. Links to research projects and university courses. |
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(UK) Language Evolution and Computation homepage - http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/lec/
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. |
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(Australia) Melbourne University Language Technology Group - http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/lt/
Research in statistical language modelling, language understanding, knowledge discovery, linguistic annotation, high performance computing, and digital language archiving. |
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(Netherlands) Information and Language Processing Systems group, Amsterdam - http://ilps.science.uva.nl/
Formerly part of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), Maarten de Rijke's group is now part of the Informatics institute, still at the University of Amsterdam. Research within the ILPS group is aimed at intelligent information access, especially in the face of massive amounts of information. Addressing this task requires synergy between IR techniques, AI research, and language technology. |
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(Finland) Connexor - http://www.connexor.com/
A company that specialises on parsing technology for various languages. On-line parser demos and limited documentation available. |
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(India) Language Technology Research at IITK - http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/langtech/hist.htm
A research group from the Indian Institute of Technology. Varied research including machine translation and processing of Hindi. |
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(Australia) Sydney Language Technology Research Group - http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~rcdmnl/
A University of Sydney research group. Research on machine learning, XML/SGML markup, and tagging.Projects,resources,applications. |
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(Mexico) Natural Language Lab of the National Politechnic Institute - http://www.gelbukh.com
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. |
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(USA) Computing Research Laboratory - http://crl.nmsu.edu/
Concentrates on multilingual processing of natural language texts. Core research areas are: AI, computational linguistics, and human-computer interaction. Has papers, data, and software. |
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(USA) Machine Learning Research Group - UTCS - http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ml/
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." |
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(USA) SRI AI Center NLP Program - http://www.ai.sri.com/natural-language/natural-language.html
Information on their projects in multimedia/multimodal interfaces, spoken language systems, written language systems. Links to the projects, publications, staff. |
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(Sweden) Human Language Technology group at NADA - http://www.nada.kth.se/theory/humanlang/
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. |
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(USA) Natural Language Processing at the University of Pennsylvania - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~linc/
Home of the XTAG formalism and treebank, this Penn research group is led by venerable computational linguist Aravind Joshi. |
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(Canada) Simon Fraser University Natural Language Laboratory - http://www.fas.sfu.ca/0/cs/research/groups/NLL/toc.html
"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. |
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(UK) Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech, University of Leeds - http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/ccalas/
CCALAS is an "umbrella" linking researchers interested in computer analysis of language and speech at the University of Leeds. |
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(Italy) Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division at ITC-IRST - http://tcc.itc.it/
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. |
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(Spain) Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya's Natural Language Processing Research Group - http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~nlp/
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. |
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(India) Language Technology Research at AU-KBC, Chennai - http://www.au-kbc.org/research_areas/nlp.html
The group focuses 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. |
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(USA) IBM Research Natural Language Processing Research Area - http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.nlp.html
Links to various projects on speech and language technology. Based at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. |
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(USA) Human Language Technology Research Institute - http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu
A University of Texas research group. Research in NLP and speech recognition and synthesis. Links to people, projects, publications. |
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(USA) Cognitive Computation Group at UIUC - http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~cogcomp/
A research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Developing natural language processing tools using Machine Learning theories. |
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(UK) University of Sussex at Brighton - http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/
Research on corpus annotation, formalisms, lexical acquisition, parsing and other NLP areas. |
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Jena University Language & Information Engineering Lab - http://www.julielab.de/
The Language and Information Engineering Lab at Jena University (JULIE Lab) was established in 2004 after the group moved from Freiburg University to Jena. The Lab's research focus is on automatic text analysis in the biomedical domain. |
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(Belarus) Intellexer at EffectiveSoft - http://www.intellexer.com/
Specialises on custom built search engines based on natural language processing. |
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Language Computer Corporation - http://www.languagecomputer.com/
Privately-owned U.S. company committed to the development of next-generation natural language processing technologies including text processing, information extraction, question answering and summarization. |
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(UK) Natural Language Generation Group at the Open University - http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/
The NLG Group at the Open University is a research team focusing on Flexible Information Presentation, Conceptual Authoring and other approaches related to Natural Language Generation. The group is led by Donia Scott (formerly director of ITRI) and was established in mid-2005. Former research results of group members include WYSIWYM and RAGS. |
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(USA) Center for Machine Translation - http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/CMT-home.html
A Carnegie Mellon University research center that focuses on multi-lingual machine translation. Links to projects, personnel, job openings, and technical reports. |
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(Austria) Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence - http://www.ofai.at/research/nlu/
"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)." |
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(USA) Johns Hopkins University NLP lab - http://nlp.cs.jhu.edu/nlp/
"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. |
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(UK) Word-grammar Interest Group - http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/Word-Grammar/wig-www.htm
A group around Dick Hudson which meets irregularly to discuss Word Grammar, a lexicalized, dependency-based grammar theory he has been developing since the eighties. |
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(France) Language, Information and Representation -- LIMSI - http://www.limsi.fr/Recherche/LIR/PageLIRgb.html
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. |
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(China) Natural Language Processing Lab -- NLPLab - http://www.nlplab.cn
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. |
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(Australia) CSIRO ICT Centre on Delivering Actionable Information - http://www.ict.csiro.au/DAI/
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. |
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(USA) MITRE Human Language Technology - http://www.mitre.org/work/areas/tech/human_language.html
In the area of human language technology, this defense-oriented not-for-profit organization researches computer systems that understand and/or synthesize spoken and written human languages. Included in this area are speech processing (recognition, understanding, and synthesis), information extraction, handwriting recognition, machine translation, text summarization, and language generation. |
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(Germany) University of Potsdam Applied Computational Linguistics Lab - http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/
Research focus on theoretical and practical aspects of discourse processing, both text and dialogue. Maintains the Potsdam Commentary Corpus. |
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(Germany) DFKI Intelligent User Interfaces lab - http://www.dfki.de/iui/index_en.html
DFKI's IUI lab produces complex research prototypes with novel user interfaces but also has its own information extraction, dialog processing, and multi-modal generation technologies. Located in Saarbrücken. |