Projects

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,

Olive, closely related to the Pop-Eye project which uses subtitles for the retrieval of video material, takes this approach further by additionally taking into account the spoken word. Based on automa

The travel and tourism sector is one of the biggest economic branches world-wide. For this sector the World Wide Web plays an increasingly important role, be it for the purpose of providing informatio

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 classic

As industrial use of Language Technology is flourishing and the market for competing software systems is expanding, there is an increasing need for the assessment of NLP components on the level of ade

Along with the rapidly growing distribution of the Internet, the problem of information overload is beginning to take over: the more on-line texts are accessible, the more difficult it is to use this

In film and video productions budget-saving reuse of visual material plays an important role. Cataloguing and indexing of film and video recordings as a pre-condition for this is, however, an extremel

The Flag project is a research project aimed at developing grammar and controlled language checking technologies using state-of-the-art natural language processing technologies. Flag will use both "sh

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 indus

In the Verbmobil project the Language Technology Lab develops the German grammar for analysis and generation as well as the components for the deep, that is, complete and semantically correct analysis