Speech and Language Technology

The Lab carries out research, development and commercial projects on all themes of computational linguistics and language technology.

A major outcome of a European key project the Lab has been coordinating is the network of excellence META-NET, which strives for a strategic alliance for creating the technologies and applications needed for making the linguistic diversity of our multicultural society sustainable.

Many projects focus on three key areas:

• Text Analytics: e.g., ALL-SIDES, SD4M
• Machine Translation: e.g. QT21, CRACKER
• Human-Robot Interaction: e.g. TRADR, PAL

Other project themes of importance include social signal processing, speech synthesis, opinion mining and trend analysis.

There are currently two Competence Centers, that bundle know-how, skills, and technologies of DFKI-LT to tackle important questions in:

• German Competence Center for Speech and Language Technologies
• Competence Center Semantic Web

The “Speech and Language Technology Lab“ provides a variety of community services.

META-NET a Network of Excellence consisting of 60 research centres from 34 countries, is dedicated to building the technological foundations of a multilingual European information society.

For specific interests in Japanese linguistics, a bibliography is available and maintained.