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Natural Language Engineering in Sheffield gate.ac.uk/ nlp.shef.ac.uk/

Natural Language Engineering in Sheffield http://gate.ac.uk/ http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/ Hamish Cunningham Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield PrestoSpace, Paris, 21/1/2003 One of the largest Human Language Technology groups in the EU

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Natural Language Engineering in Sheffield gate.ac.uk/ nlp.shef.ac.uk/

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  1. Natural Language Engineering in Sheffield • http://gate.ac.uk/http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/ • Hamish Cunningham • Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield • PrestoSpace, Paris, 21/1/2003 • One of the largest Human Language Technology groups in the EU • 50 staff in Language and Speech Processing; 25 in Information Retrieval, including 6 professors • A focus on scientific method in AI (participate in all the leading quantitative evaluation programmes in the US) • A focus on engineering high-quality open-source software for applications and demonstrators • We develop GATE, an architecture in use at hundreds of sites including Pearson publishing; BT; Merck KgAa; Canon Europe; Knight Ridder; BBN Technologies; SMEs; a large number of UK, US and EU Universities; the Perseus Digital Library project, the American National Corpus; ...

  2. NLE and KT for Prestospace • Research areas relevant to Prestospace: • Metadata production: ABACUS: Automated Back Catalogue User Semantics • Conceptual indexing: MUMIS: automatic semantic indices for sports video • Multilingual content analysis: robust scaleable Information Extraction in 9 languages • Architectures and middleware for NLE services: GATE, web services, the Grid • Semantic Web: Advanced Knowledge Technologies: €10m UK project • Other collaboration opportunities: • KITShare NoE in Knowledge and Interface Tool Sharing • IP in conversational systems • IP in digital libraries / cultural heritage • IP in semantics-based knowledge technologies

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