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Computational

Linguistics

40 Mio €40 Mio €

Two best-ranked applications of whole initiative

Two best-ranked applications of whole initiative

•Bioinformatics/Computational Biology

•Computational Linguistics

•Computer Science and Economy

•Law and Informatics

•Information and Technology Management

•University of Applied Sciences (HTW

Saarbrücken)

•Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing

and Communication Stanford (USA) und

Saarbrücken

Computer Science and other subjects

Technology Transfer•EADS/Airbus

•Boeing

•Volkswagen

•Audi

•BMW

•DaimlerChrysler

•Algorithmic Solutions

•AbsInt

•Sirrix

•inTrace

•Motama

•IT

•Microsoft

•IBM

•Intel

•AMD

•SAP

•SAP Retail Solutions

•Infineon

•T-Systems

•IDS Scheer

•Infor

Spoken Language Systems Group

Research AreasSpeech processing

•Speaker tracking•Distant speech recognition•Robust speech recognition•Audio-visual recognition

Language processing•IR and sentence retrieval•Information extraction and entity tagging•Question answering•Opinion miningBenchmark:

TREC 2007: second in definition and third in factoidTAC 2008: opinion questions: third

The Johns Hopkins UniversityCenter for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP)

Local coordinator: Fred Jelinek

Brown UniversityBrown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing (BLLIP)

Local coordinator: Eugene CharniakCharles University in Prague, Czech RepublicInstitute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL)

Local coordinator: Jan Hajic

PIRE: Meaning Representations for Natural Language Processing

Topics: machine translation and speech reconstruction

Partners:

Project SCALE: Speech Communication with Adaptive Learning

Funds•12 PhD positions•2 Post docs

2009-2012