Language Technologies

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Core Expertise Creation & Curation: reveal meaning in text, text analytics, semantic analysis Search & Discovery: Discover answers in multilingual/multimodal content Translation & Localisation: fast, accurate, human and machine translation, translation of user generated and corporate content. Commercial Experience NCLT/CNGL has significant commercial expertise having generated three spinout companies to date, multiple licenses and an increasing number of applied research collaborations. The Centre is home to a dedicated product Design & Innovation Lab that can work with industry to ensure that research outputs are aligned with commercial requirements. Industry Collaborations Illustrative Innovation Partnership: Zinopy (2012  Present) Innovative use of search and language technologies for better customer care solutions….. Examples of Ongoing Research    Combining natural language processing with information retrieval for question answering and content management in customer care.    Efficient & scalable methods to adapt text analytics technologies to highly divergent styles and domains.    Technologies that extract events and opinions from user generated content, particularly predicateargument structure, temporal information, polarity, sentiment, etc. Techniques to leverage the social graph in the adaptation and personalisation of search, including the exploitation of user tags, connections with other users, personal & professional profiles, user similarity and activities by similar or highly connected users Where Could NCLT/CNGL Expertise Help Other Businesses Expertise in applying natural language processing technology to real world (noisy) data e.g. intelligent handling of content from twitter, forums, emails.    Expertise in multi lingual language processing (language understanding, machine translation, cross lingual search)   Expertise in search and discovery technology (video search, personalised contextual search) National Centre for Language Technologies Centre for Next Generation Localisation   Techniques to leverage the social graph in the adaptation and personalisation of search, including the exploitation of user tags, connections with other users, personal & professional profiles, user similarity and activities by similar or highly connected users