Language is an essential part of our lives – we use it to share information, to describe our feelings, to discuss with others or to pass on knowledge to the next generations. It is a vital component…
The research work in DEEPLEE, which is carried out in the Language Technology research departments in Saabrücken and Berlin, builds on DFKI's expertise in the areas of "deep learning" (DL) and…
A European Digital Single Market free of barriers, including language barriers, is a stated EU objective to be achieved by 2020. The findings of the META-NET Language White Papers show that currently…
In order to be competitive in a global scale, European factories should be operated by a highly skilled workforce supported by advanced automation and IT tools. INTERACT aims to utilize workers'; …
The project aims at researching methods and techniques to overcome one of the central problems of machine translation (MT) – the lack of linguistic resources such as training data for under-resourced…
The GDET project will create a software prototype for the automatic extraction of data from unstructured documents of diverse kinds and their automated further processing, thereby reducing the staff…
SProUT is a system for partial analysis of texts. It is used in particular – though not exclusively – for named entity recognition (NER) and opinion mining. The simple recognition of named entities…
IDX is a professional text indexing system with high-quality linguistic knowledge. It achieves an excellent level of consistency in the indexing of large amounts of German or English text. IDX is able…
The project will research and implement a flexible, configurable and fast version of Python, a popular Free/Open Source programming language. Much anecdotal, and some empirical, evidence suggests that…
DIRECT-INFO aims to create a basic system for semi-automatic extraction of consistent and meaningful semantic information from multimedia content. We offer an integrated system combining the output of…
The overall objective of the project is to strengthen the successful German Competence Center for Language Technology and the position of German R&D in the language technology arena. This will be…
To provide better services to their customers and to optimise their resources, airports and airline companies need to forecast the number of air passengers, their destination, or their intended travel…
MUSI addresses the problem of multilingual summarisation to facilitate access to information retrieval systems and, in particular, access to the content of electronic documents over the Internet. As a…
The World Wide Web offers a wealth of texts, tables and maps for you to browse through. But computing your own results from that information is a headache. You must transfer the data to your computer,…
Professional computer-aided customer care is among the largest growth markets in the services sector. DFKI's ICC project concentrates on two areas of innovative call center technology: Firstly…
The administration of information in Europe is currently undergoing a series of changes. This is effecting a number of different sectors, ranging from banks through to public administrations and…
The increasing availability of up-to-date data in the information age is of limited use without adequate presentation. Language technology can make an important contribution to this, whereby…
Dynamically generated text is necessary for many intelligent applications that provide information or include a need to communicate. Many of these applications - for instance, stock market reports,…
TAMIC is a pilot project funded by the European Community to investigate the feasibility of NL access to heterogeneous information systems. The main project is planned to start in 1996.
