NLP

Information Access: Building applications to improve access to information in massive text collections, such as the web, newswires and the scientific literature. Subtopics include: information extraction, text mining and semantic annotation, question answering, summarization. Includes platforms for developing and deploying real world language processing applications, most notably GATE, the General Architecture for Text Engineering. Machine Translation: Building applications to translate automatically between human languages, allowing access to the vast amount of information written in foreign languages and easier communication between speakers of different languages. Human-Computer Dialogue Systems: Building systems to allow spoken language interaction with computers or embodied conversational agents, with applications in areas such as keyboard-free access to information, games and entertainment, articifial companions.