Research and Development Sites
This page lists websites of organizations engaged in research related to controlled languages. Because controlled languages often use tools and methods also used in in other language processing tasks (grammars, parsers, and lexicons, for example), I have included references here to some organizations involved in research and develpment efforts in more general language processing tasks, as well as those specifically involved in controlled language research.. Specific controlled language research and develoment programs are in bold.
SRI Artificial Intelligence Center NLP Program
Multimedia/Multimodal Interface Group
Spoken Language Systems Group
Written Language Systems Group
www.ai.sri.com/natural-language.com
FASTUS Extraction tool
GEMINI parser/interpreter
ATIS airline information retrieval tool
TIPSTER
Command Talk, spoken language interface for military
applications
Massive online publications library covering very
broad range of linguistics and computation topics.
Search on ‘extraction’ brings up 15 titles
Focus: tool and data development, standardization, and validation;
seems to be focused on spoken corpora
Centre for Computational Linguistics--Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven
www.ccl.kuleven.ac.be
Machine Translation: EUROTRA, METAL
Controlled Language: ALCOGRAM Controlled English
Grammar, SECC Simplified English Checker/Corrector
Publications: three publications on controlled language
Focus: language specifications and machine translation
University of Cambridge NLP Group
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/nl
Alvery Natural Language Tools include a morpohological
analyser, parser, grammar, and lexicon
Publications are numerous, across broad range of
NLP subjects, no specific references under ‘tools’
Focus: more basic lexical and grammar-related research
Microsoft Research, NLP Group
www.research.microsoft.com/research/nlp/
30+ researchers
NL Analysis System
Controlled Language: MS Office Grammar Checker, Encarta
IR system
Publications search on “natural language” brings up 40 articles
Focus: tools for Microsoft products
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/nlu
Unification Grammar, HPSG Grammar for German, NL Generation,
Computational morphology
Publications: minimal
Xerox Research Centre Europe
www.rxrc.xerox.com/research/mltt
finite state algorithms, grammars (LFG), lexical sense disambiguation
Publications: fairly large library of publications covering
broad range of linguistics and computing topics
Focus: generally more basic research than CL
Xerox Parc Research Center
Natural Language and Technology Group
www.parc.xerox.com/istl/groups/nltt
LinguistX (from InXight)
Controlled Language: Grammar Writer’s Workbench for LFG
Xerox Linguistics Environment Project
Parallel Grammar Project
Publications numerous
Focus: theoretical and applied work on grammar formalisms, parsing,
generation, and morphology
Computing Research Laboratory
www.crl.nmsu.edu
multitude of projects, mostly focusing on machine translation
Publications: 2 specifically on controlled language, several
hundred on MT and linguistics
Focus: MT
Carnegie Mellon Univ. Language Technologies Institute
(and Center for Machine Translation)
www.lti.cs.cmu.edu
numerous MT projects, past development of Caterpillar Controlled
English
Controlled Language: Caterpillar Controlled English
Publications numerous
Focus: MT, past contributions to CLAW and other CL activities
DFKI—German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
www.dfki.uni-sb.de
FLAG Flexible Language and Grammar Checker
PAGE Platform for Advanced Grammar Engineering (core engine)
PERFECTION—NL Generation system
TG\2 NL Generation system
UNL Text Generation/MT System
VerbMobil—Speech-to-Speech System
Publications several hundred publications listed
Focus on applied projects, with interest in CL and special interest
in generation
IAI/GRAI--Society for the Promotion of Applied
Information Sciences
www.ia.uni-sb.de
Projects Apollo Controlled Language Authoring tool
ARAMED, ANTHEM, CAT2 MT systems
MultiDoc, MultiLint multilingual controlled language and
computer assisted translation tools
Publications fairly extensive
Focus: MT
University of Edinburgh Human Communications Research
Center
Language Technology Group
www.ltg.ed.ac.uk
range of projects in linguistics and computation
Controlled Language work: Intelligent Authoring Aids
several publications specifically on CL, contributions to CLAW,
Richard Altwarg
Macquarie University Graduate Program in Speech
and Language Processing
SLP803 An Introduction to Language Technology
This site last updated November 6, 2000.
Comments and corrections welcome: raltwarg@earthlink.com