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Language Technology and Computational Linguistics
at Uppsala University
Computational Linguistics, or Language Technology, aims at making computers process human language for various linguistic tasks and using it in interaction with human users, at the same time as enhancing our knowledge about language. Core areas are computational analysis, production and learning of language, and corpus-based research on language. In addition, there are many applications such as translation, language checking, and information retrieval.
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Research
Machine learning, machine translation, computational text analysis, corpus-based language studies, and language checking are the most prominent research areas in computational linguistics at Uppsala University. Machine learning aims at the automatic extraction of knowledge about language from text. The goal of machine translation is to make computers translate between languages. An important part of this research is computational text analysis and the study of different languages based on large collections of electronic text, so-called corpora. Language checking includes spell checking, style checking, grammar checking, and text prediction. - Computational linguistics is inherently interdisciplinary with linguistics and computer science as the fundamental parts. It was top-ranked in the quality assessment of research at Uppsala University in 2007, KoF (Quality and Renewal).
Education
We offer courses in computational linguistics within a 4-year long Language Technology Program. Many of our courses are also given as independent courses. Within higher education, we train Ph.D students in computational linguistics in cooperation with the national Graduate School of Language Technology.
Conferences, workshops, symposia
We organized the following conferences, workshops and symposia:
- Information about language technology, December 20, 2006
- BLARK/SNK workshop, January 29, 2006
- National Meeting in Language Technology, January 11, 2006
- Minisymposium: Computational Aspects of Building an Annotated Swedish-Turkish Parallel Corpus, May 4-5, 2006
- Information about language technology, December 9, 2005
- National Conference in Computational Linguistics, October 20-21, 2005
- RASMAT'04, One-day Workshop in Recent Advances in Scandinavian Machine Translation, April 23, 2004
- NoDaLiDa'99, Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, 1999
- Symposium on parallel corpora, 1999
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