QCRI collaborates with Qatar Living to improve online search - Artificial Intelligence Online

Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), one of Hamad Bin Khalifa University's (HBKU's) national research institutes, has partnered with Qatar Living, a rich source of non-official information on Qatar, to incorporate natural language understanding technology on the Qatar Living website. QCRI's Arabic Language Technology Group has worked on the advancement of the technology for over two years. In collaboration with a team of engineers from Qatar Living, the development is now ready for industry application, allowing visitors to the website the ability to easily and quickly find answers to their questions on the forum to save time. QCRI joined forces with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL)to develop novel algorithms for language processing on the data provided by Qatar Living. "The collaboration with Qatar Living provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate our technology, and acquire insights from these kinds of real-world applications," said Dr Alessandro Moschitti, principal scientist at QCRI and principal investigator on the QCRI side of the project.