| (Australia) Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University: Research on Language Technology, with particular emphasis in practical applications in the short and medium term. Links to research projects and university courses. |
| (Australia) CSIRO ICT Centre on Delivering Actionable Information: 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. |
| (Australia) Melbourne University Language Technology Group: Research in statistical language modelling, language understanding, knowledge discovery, linguistic annotation, high performance computing, and digital language archiving. |
| (Australia) Sydney Language Technology Research Group: A University of Sydney research group. Research on machine learning, XML/SGML markup, and tagging.Projects,resources,applications. |
| (Austria) Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence: "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)." |
| (Belarus) Intellexer at EffectiveSoft: Specialises on custom built search engines based on natural language processing. |
| (Belgium) Centre for Computational Linguistics: 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. |
| (Belgium) Centre for natural language processing: CENTAL is a Belgian research center specialized in Natural Language Processing. It is part of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). Research approaches include corpus-based approaches to contrastive linguistics and digital language learning. |
| (Canada) Simon Fraser University Natural Language Laboratory: "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. |
| (China) Natural Language Processing Lab -- NLPLab: 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. |
| (Finland) Connexor: A company that specialises on parsing technology for various languages. On-line parser demos and limited documentation available. |
| (Finland) FiLT - Language Technology Documentation Centre in Finland: A association specialised on Finnish research on natural language processing. Links to research projects. |
| (France) Language, Information and Representation -- LIMSI: 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. |
| (Germany) DFKI Intelligent User Interfaces lab: 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. |
| (Germany) DFKI Language Technology lab: This lab of the German DFKI research institute has several projects on language technlogy and NLP. |
| (Germany) Institute for Computational Linguistics and Phonetics at Saarland University: 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. |
| (Germany) Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at Universität Stuttgart: 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. |
| (Germany) University of Potsdam Applied Computational Linguistics Lab: 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: Research related to Greek language including linguistic knowledge representation, computational grammars, semantic WEB and terminology. The site is mainly in Greek, with an English page about the group members. |
| (Greece) NCSR "Demokritos", Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory: 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. |
| (India) Language Technology Research at AU-KBC, Chennai: 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. |
| (India) Language Technology Research at IITK: A research group from the Indian Institute of Technology. Varied research including machine translation and processing of Hindi. |
| (Italy) Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division at ITC-IRST: 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. |
| (Mexico) Natural Language Lab of the National Politechnic Institute: 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. |
| (Netherlands) Information and Language Processing Systems group, Amsterdam: 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. |
| (Spain) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems Research Group, Alicante University: Research on word sense disambiguation, question answering and information retrieval. |
| (Spain) UNED NLP Group, Madrid: 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. |
| (Spain) Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya's Natural Language Processing Research Group: 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. |
| (Sweden) Human Language Technology group at NADA: 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. |
| (Thailand) SIIT Knowledge Information & Data Management Laboratory: Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology's center of research in knowledge discovery, information engineering, speech and natural language processing. |
| (Thailand) Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory: TCL carries out research on knowledge, language and information, including Human Language Technology, Intelligent Information Infrastructure and Open Source Software related for language processing. |
| (UK) Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech, University of Leeds: CCALAS is an "umbrella" linking researchers interested in computer analysis of language and speech at the University of Leeds. |
| (UK) Computational Linguistics UK: CLUK is Britain's special interest group for computational linguistics. News, organizational information, and general information on the British natural language processing research community. |
| (UK) Edinburgh Language Technology Group: A research and development group working in the area of natural language engineering. The site contains several software tools free to academic research groups. |
| (UK) HCRC - Human Communication Research Centre: An interdisciplinary research group at the University of Edinburgh with interests in dialogue, mechanisms of language processing, graphics & language, and technology. |
| (UK) ICCS - Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems: 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. |
| (UK) Language Evolution and Computation homepage: 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. |
| (UK) Natural Language Generation Group at the Open University: 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. |
| (UK) The Natural Language Processing Group at the London South Bank University: Research on various areas of natural language processing, intelligent agents and information retrieval. Links to projects, publications, and tutorials on NLP. |
| (UK) University of Cambridge NLP Group: 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. |
| (UK) University of Essex CL Research Group: Group working on computational linguistics with a strong emphasis on constraint-based linguistics. Site includes member pages, online papers. |
| (UK) University of Sheffield Information Retrieval Group: The primary research areas of the group include statistical information retrieval techniques, multimedia browsing and retrieval, and personal information management and retrieval. |
| (UK) University of Sheffield NLP Group: "Architectures for NLP, NL Analysis (IE and Dialogue), NL Generation and NLP Resources and Tools." The developers of GATE. |
| (UK) University of Sussex at Brighton: Research on corpus annotation, formalisms, lexical acquisition, parsing |
| (UK) Word-grammar Interest Group: 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. |
| (USA) Center for Machine Translation: A Carnegie Mellon University research center that focuses on multi-lingual machine translation. Links to projects, personnel, job openings, and technical reports. |
| (USA) CNLP - Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University: This center focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology related to Information Retrieval and Question Answering. |
| (USA) Cognitive Computation Group at UIUC: A research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Developing natural language processing tools using Machine Learning theories. |
| (USA) Columbia Natural Language Processing Group: 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. |
| (USA) Computational Psycholinguistics Research at CLIP: Descriptions of current projects and links to published papers. Covers the areas of syntactic disambiguation, selectional constraints and semantic similarity. |
| (USA) Computing Research Laboratory: Concentrates on multilingual processing of natural language texts. Core research areas are: AI, computational linguistics, and human-computer interaction. Has papers, data, and software. |
| (USA) Conversational Interaction and Spoken Dialogue Research Group: 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. |
| (USA) Cornell Natural Language Processing Group: Information about people, projects, publications, datasets, and courses. Research on an wide range of areas. |
| (USA) CSLI Center for the Study of Information and Technology (CSLI): 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. |
| (USA) Human Language Technology Research Institute: A University of Texas research group. Research in NLP and speech recognition and synthesis. Links to people, projects, publications. |
| (USA) IBM Research Natural Language Processing Research Area: Links to various projects on speech and language technology. Based at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. |
| (USA) Information Sciences Institute - Natural Language Group: This research group of the University of Southern California (USC/ISI) is currently involved in various aspects of computational linguistics/natural language processing. |
| (USA) Johns Hopkins University NLP lab: "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. |
| (USA) Language Computer Corporation: A company that specialises on text-based question answering, information extraction, and text summarisation. Link to demos. |
| (USA) Language Science Research Group, Washington University: Research in this group focuses on segmentation and language acquisition. |
| (USA) Machine Learning Research Group - UTCS: 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." |
| (USA) Microsoft NLP Research: Information on their projects, people, publications, and employment opportunities. |
| (USA) MIT Infolab: Research group of the MIT AI Laboratory. A key on-line system is START, Natural Language question-answering over several topics. |
| (USA) MITRE Human Language Technology: 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. |
| (USA) Natural Language Processing at the University of Pennsylvania: Home of the XTAG formalism and treebank, this Penn research group is led by venerable computational linguist Aravind Joshi. |
| (USA) Natural Language Theory and Technology group at PARC: 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. |
| (USA) Neural Theory of Language (NTL) Research Group: 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. |
| (USA) SRI AI Center NLP Program: Information on their projects in multimedia/multimodal interfaces, spoken language systems, written language systems. Links to the projects, publications, staff. |
| (USA) The Unsupervised Learning Group (ULG) at UT Austin: 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." |
| (USA) Xerox Content Analysis: 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. |
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