Natural Language Engineering in Sheffield

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• 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 ...

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• 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