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Competence Center Computational Linguistics

 
 

The Competence Center Computational Linguistics (KCL, "Kompetenzzentrum Computerlinguistik", or officially: "Kompetenzzentrum für Text- und Informationstechnologie") is a joint project of the Institut for Natural Language Processing (IMS) in Stuttgart, and the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft (SfS) in Tübingen. The project is funded from 2000 through 2005 by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg and the universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen.


Goal

The Competence Center Computational Linguistics wants to increase the awareness for the commercial potential of language technology and to contribute actively to transfer language technology knowledge and tools from the academic to the industrial sector. The competence center is focussed on text-related technology (in contrast to speech-related technology).

Tasks

  • technology transfer
  • consulting and training concerning language technology, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics
  • co-operation in national and international efforts towards the standardization and evaluation of language technology

Know-How

The KCL takes advantage of the know-how and resources which are available at the IMS and SfS. Most relevant are the know-how and resources from Both, IMS and SfS have a long-standing expertise in handling projects with partners from industry. Please see the list of industry partners of the IMS and of the SfS.

Target groups

Software manufacturers, publishers, and service providers in the fields:

text retrieval, document management, content management, knowledge management, internet portals, machine translation, computer-aided translation, educational software for language learning, lexicography databases, ontologies, ...

Contact

kcl@ims.uni-stuttgart.de