Web Directory

» (Australia) CSIRO ICT Centre on Delivering Actionable Information
   Focus on delivering information "that is relevant to and appropriate for users receiving it". Research areas include Natural Language Processing (or Language Technology), User Modelling, Multimodal Interaction, Interactive Information Retrieval, and Tailo
   http://www.ict.csiro.au/DAI/

» (Australia) Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University
   Research on Language Technology, with particular emphasis in practical applications in the short and medium term. Links to research projects and university courses.
   http://www.clt.mq.edu.au

» (Australia) Melbourne University Language Technology Group
   Research in statistical language modelling, language understanding, knowledge discovery, linguistic annotation, high performance computing, and digital language archiving.
   http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/lt/

» (Australia) Sydney Language Technology Research Group
   A University of Sydney research group. Research on machine learning, XML/SGML markup, and tagging.Projects,resources,applications.
   http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~rcdmnl/

» (Austria) Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
   "Research in modelling and processing human languages, especially for German. This includes constructing linguistic resources (such as lexicons, grammars, discourse models), processing algorithms (such as morphological components, parsers, generators, spe
   http://www.ofai.at/research/nlu/

» (Belarus) Intellexer at EffectiveSoft
   Specialises on custom built search engines based on natural language processing.
   http://www.intellexer.com/

» (Belgium) Centre for Computational Linguistics
   The main objective of the Centre for Computational Linguistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is to promote basic research in formal and computational linguistics, and the application of this research in natural language processing.
   http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/

» (Belgium) Centre for natural language processing
   CENTAL is a Belgian research center specialized in Natural Language Processing. It is part of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). Research approaches include corpus-based approaches to contrastive linguistics and digital language learning.
   http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be/index.php?lang=en&cat=0

» (Canada) Simon Fraser University Natural Language Laboratory
   "Computers are used to understand the structure and meaning of "natural languages" such as English, French, and Spanish." Machine translation, computer-assisted language learning, information extraction, natural language interfaces. Publications online.
   http://www.fas.sfu.ca/0/cs/research/groups/NLL/toc.html

» (China) Natural Language Processing Lab -- NLPLab
   NLPLab in the Northeastern University focuses on scientific research and education in Natural Language Processing (especially in Chinese language processing). The lab started NLP research in the early 1980s.
   http://www.nlplab.cn

» (Finland) Connexor
   A company that specialises on parsing technology for various languages. On-line parser demos and limited documentation available.
   http://www.connexor.com/

» (Finland) FiLT - Language Technology Documentation Centre in Finland
   A association specialised on Finnish research on natural language processing. Links to research projects.
   http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/filt/info/index-en.shtml

» (France) Language, Information and Representation -- LIMSI
   Research on knowledge and reasoning, document processing, interpretation, generation and dialogue processing, and question/answering. Links to members, topics, reports. Versions in English and French.
   http://www.limsi.fr/Recherche/LIR/PageLIRgb.html

» (Germany) DFKI Intelligent User Interfaces lab
   DFKI's IUI lab produces complex research prototypes with novel user interfaces but also has its own information extraction, dialog processing, and multi-modal generation technologies. Located in Saarbrücken.
   http://www.dfki.de/iui/index_en.html

» (Germany) DFKI Language Technology lab
   Lab of the German DFKI research institute with several projects on language technology and NLP.
   http://www.dfki.de/lt/

» (Germany) Institute for Computational Linguistics and Phonetics at Saarland University
   One of the first computational linguistics departments in Germany. Research topics include language technology, NL parsing, computational semantics, and computational and experimental psycholinguistics. The phonetics department specializes in speech synth
   http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/

» (Germany) Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at Universität Stuttgart
   Carries out basic and applied research in computational linguistics. Current working groups: Experimental Phonetics, Formal Logic and Philosophy of Language, ParGram (Grammar Development), and the Text Corpora and Lexicon Group.
   http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/

» (Germany) University of Potsdam Applied Computational Linguistics Lab
   Research focus on theoretical and practical aspects of discourse processing, both text and dialogue. Maintains the Potsdam Commentary Corpus.
   http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/

» (Greece) NCSR "Demokritos", Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory
   NCSR "DEMOKRITOS" is the biggest state-run research centre in Greece. The Software and Knowledge Engineering Lab (SKEL) at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR develops technologies that address the emerging problem of information o
   http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/

» (Greece) National Technical University of Athens - Natural Language Processing Lab
   Research related to Greek language including linguistic knowledge representation, computational grammars, semantic WEB and terminology. The site is mainly in Greek, with an English page about the group members.
   http://glotta.ntua.gr/nlp/

» (India) Language Technology Research at AU-KBC, Chennai
   The group focuses on developing tools, technologies and products for Indian languages especially for Tamil. Research projects include Machine Translation, Information Retrieval(IR), Information Extraction(IE) and developing tools and lexical resources inc
   http://www.au-kbc.org/research_areas/nlp.html

» (India) Language Technology Research at IITK
   A research group from the Indian Institute of Technology. Varied research including machine translation and processing of Hindi.
   http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/langtech/hist.htm

» (Italy) Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division at ITC-IRST
   A research institute of the Instituto Trentino di Cultura focusing on NL generation, information extraction, dialogue and multimodality, linguistic resources and tools, parsing, and formal linguistics.
   http://tcc.itc.it/

» (Mexico) Natural Language Lab of the National Politechnic Institute
   The homepage of the head of this lab. Links to nearly all products of the Lab. Areas of interest are computational syntax, semantics, anaphora resolution, lexical resources. The Lab organizes an annual international conf, see www.cicling.org.
   http://www.gelbukh.com

» (Netherlands) Information and Language Processing Systems group, Amsterdam
   Formerly part of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), Maarten de Rijke's group is now part of the Informatics institute, still at the University of Amsterdam. Research within the ILPS group is aimed at intelligent information access,
   http://ilps.science.uva.nl/

» (Spain) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems Research Group, Alicante University
   Research on word sense disambiguation, question answering and information retrieval.
   http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/indexin.php?opc=12

» (Spain) UNED NLP Group, Madrid
   Natural Language Group at the Spanish National Distance University (UNED). Research on natural language processing applied to information access, evaluation of information access systems, and acquisition and representation of lexical and grammatical knowl
   http://nlp.uned.es/

» (Spain) Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya's Natural Language Processing Research Group
   Main research fields are related to the use of multilingual lexical resources, information extraction from documents, design of NL interfaces, basic NLP techniques (tagging, parsing, sense disambiguation), NL understanding and Knowledge Representation. To
   http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~nlp/

» (Sweden) Human Language Technology group at NADA
   Performs research within all aspects of human language and computers. Research on spell and grammar checking, text filtering and categorisation, summarisation, text extraction, generation, and information retrieval. Some of the contents are in Swedish.
   http://www.nada.kth.se/theory/humanlang/

» (Thailand) Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory
   TCL carries out research on knowledge, language and information, including Human Language Technology, Intelligent Information Infrastructure and Open Source Software related for language processing.
   http://www.tcllab.org/

» (UK) Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech, University of Leeds
   CCALAS is an "umbrella" linking researchers interested in computer analysis of language and speech at the University of Leeds.
   http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/ccalas/

» (UK) Computational Linguistics UK
   CLUK is Britain's special interest group for computational linguistics. News, organizational information, and general information on the British natural language processing research community.
   http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/research/cluk/

» (UK) Edinburgh Language Technology Group
   A research and development group working in the area of natural language engineering. The site contains several software tools free to academic research groups.
   http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/

» (UK) HCRC - Human Communication Research Centre
   An interdisciplinary research group at the University of Edinburgh with interests in dialogue, mechanisms of language processing, graphics and language, and technology.
   http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/

» (UK) ICCS - Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
   An institute at the University of Edinburgh that focuses on research on communication among humans and between humans and machines using text, speech, and graphics, and the design of interactive dialog systems.
   http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/

» (UK) Language Evolution and Computation homepage
   A University of Edinburgh research unit. "Our research involves applying mathematical and computational modelling techniques to traditional issues in the evolution of communication and language, historical linguistics, and language typology." Site lists g
   http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/lec/

» (UK) Natural Language Generation Group at the Open University
   The NLG Group at the Open University is a research team focusing on Flexible Information Presentation, Conceptual Authoring and other approaches related to Natural Language Generation. The group is led by Donia Scott (formerly director of ITRI) and was es
   http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/

» (UK) University of Cambridge NLP Group
   Research projects include ones on language processing resources and tools, logic and formalisms, natural language front ends, speech processing, automatic summarising, text and spoken message retrieval, natural language processing for formal specification
   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/nl/

» (UK) University of Essex CL Research Group
   Group working on computational linguistics with a strong emphasis on constraint-based linguistics. Member pages and online papers.
   http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/research/resgroups/clgroup/

» (UK) University of Sheffield Information Retrieval Group
   The primary research areas of the group include statistical information retrieval techniques, multimedia browsing and retrieval, and personal information management and retrieval.
   http://ir.shef.ac.uk/

» (UK) University of Sheffield NLP Group
   A very large group of NLP researchers headed by Yorick Wilks. Topics include architectures for NLP, NL Analysis (esp. IE), Dialogue, NLP Resources and Tools. GATE comes from here.
   http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/

» (UK) University of Sussex at Brighton
   Research on corpus annotation, formalisms, lexical acquisition, parsing and other NLP areas.
   http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/

» (UK) Word-grammar Interest Group
   A group around Dick Hudson which meets irregularly to discuss Word Grammar, a lexicalized, dependency-based grammar theory he has been developing since the eighties.
   http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/Word-Grammar/wig-www.htm

» (USA) CNLP - Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University
   This center focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology related to Information Retrieval and Question Answering.
   http://cnlp.org

» (USA) CSLI Center for the Study of Information and Technology (CSLI)
   An independent research center devoted to research in the emerging science of information, computing, and cognition. Founded by researchers from Stanford University, SRI International, and Xerox PARC.
   http://www-csli.stanford.edu/

» (USA) Center for Machine Translation
   A Carnegie Mellon University research center that focuses on multi-lingual machine translation. Links to projects, personnel, job openings, and technical reports.
   http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/CMT-home.html

» (USA) Cognitive Computation Group at UIUC
   A research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Developing natural language processing tools using Machine Learning theories.
   http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~cogcomp/

» (USA) Columbia Natural Language Processing Group
   Pursues research in natural language generation, concept-to-speech generation, summarization of news, statistical language modeling and digital libraries. Info on their projects, people, publications, software tools, events.
   http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/

» (USA) Computational Psycholinguistics Research at CLIP
   Descriptions of current projects and links to published papers. Covers the areas of syntactic disambiguation, selectional constraints and semantic similarity.
   http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/resnik/psycholinguistics.html

» (USA) Conversational Interaction and Spoken Dialogue Research Group
   A University of Rochester research group that investigates conversational interaction through the study of machine-human interaction. Program information, current projects, tools for corpus linguistics and discourse transcription, archive of downloadable
   http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/cisd/

» (USA) Cornell Natural Language Processing Group
   Information about people, projects, publications, datasets, and courses. Research on a range of areas.
   http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/NLP/

» (USA) Human Language Technology Research Institute
   A University of Texas research group. Research in NLP and speech recognition and synthesis. Links to people, projects, publications.
   http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu

» (USA) IBM Research Natural Language Processing Research Area
   Links to various projects on speech and language technology. Based at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
   http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.nlp.html

» (USA) Information Sciences Institute - Natural Language Group
   This research group of the University of Southern California (USC/ISI) is currently involved in various aspects of computational linguistics/natural language processing.
   http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/

» (USA) Johns Hopkins University NLP lab
   "Committed to finding novel and efficient computational methods that rival human performance in natural language competency tasks." Information on their people, conferences and meetings, links, courses, facilities, software tools.
   http://nlp.cs.jhu.edu/nlp/

» (USA) Language Science Research Group, Washington University
   Research in this group focuses on segmentation and language acquisition.
   http://lsrg.cs.wustl.edu

» (USA) MITRE Human Language Technology
   In the area of human language technology, this defense-oriented not-for-profit organization researches computer systems that understand and/or synthesize spoken and written human languages. Included in this area are speech processing (recognition, underst
   http://www.mitre.org/work/areas/tech/human_language.html

» (USA) Machine Learning Research Group - UTCS
   This research group "focuses on applying both empirical and knowledge-based learning techniques to natural language processing, text mining, recommender systems, inductive logic programming, knowledge and theory refinement, planning, and intelligent tutor
   http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ml/

» (USA) Microsoft NLP Research
   Information on their projects, people, publications, and employment opportunities.
   http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/nlp/

» (USA) Natural Language Processing at the University of Pennsylvania
   Home of the XTAG formalism and treebank, this Penn research group is led by venerable computational linguist Aravind Joshi.
   http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~linc/

» (USA) Natural Language Theory and Technology group at PARC
   Provides information about the people and projects in the NLTT group at PARC. Includes a short history and a list of selected papers. Research includes parsing and Lexical Functional Grammar.
   http://www2.parc.com/isl/groups/nltt/

» (USA) Neural Theory of Language (NTL) Research Group
   A group of scholars at the University of California, Berkeley, studying the connections between neurology, computing and language learning. Current projects, research articles, and an overview of the group's history and purpose.
   http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/NTL/

» (USA) SRI AI Center NLP Program
   Information on their projects in multimedia/multimodal interfaces, spoken language systems, written language systems. Links to the projects, publications, staff.
   http://www.ai.sri.com/natural-language/natural-language.html

» (USA) Xerox Content Analysis
   A team working on basic products for multilingual language analysis, providing current projects, demos, and an archive of publications. Includes an online demo guessing 47 languages.
   http://www.xrce.xerox.com/Research-Development/Document-Content-Laboratory

» Jena University Language & Information Engineering Lab
   The Language and Information Engineering Lab at Jena University (JULIE Lab) was established in 2004 after the group moved from Freiburg University to Jena. The Lab's research focus is on automatic text analysis in the biomedical domain.
   http://www.julielab.de/

» Language Computer Corporation
   Privately-owned U.S. company committed to the development of next-generation natural language processing technologies including text processing, information extraction, question answering and summarization.
   http://www.languagecomputer.com/