Language Technologies Institute
Encyclopedia
The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) is a division of the School of Computer Science
at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh
, Pennsylvania
, United States
, and focuses on the area of language technologies.
The main scholarly research of the institute is on machine translation
, speech recognition
, speech synthesis
, information retrieval
, parsing
and information extraction
.
Until 1996, the institute existed as the Center for Machine Translation that was established in 1986. Subsequently, from 1996 onwards, it started awarding degrees and the name was changed to The Language Technologies Institute.
The current director of the institute is Professor Jaime Carbonell
.
Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is a leading private school for computer science established in 1965. It has been consistently ranked among the top computer science programs over the decades. U.S...
at Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, and focuses on the area of language technologies.
The main scholarly research of the institute is on machine translation
Machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...
, speech recognition
Speech recognition
Speech recognition converts spoken words to text. The term "voice recognition" is sometimes used to refer to recognition systems that must be trained to a particular speaker—as is the case for most desktop recognition software...
, speech synthesis
Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware...
, information retrieval
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
, parsing
Parsing
In computer science and linguistics, parsing, or, more formally, syntactic analysis, is the process of analyzing a text, made of a sequence of tokens , to determine its grammatical structure with respect to a given formal grammar...
and information extraction
Information extraction
Information extraction is a type of information retrieval whose goal is to automatically extract structured information from unstructured and/or semi-structured machine-readable documents. In most of the cases this activity concerns processing human language texts by means of natural language...
.
Until 1996, the institute existed as the Center for Machine Translation that was established in 1986. Subsequently, from 1996 onwards, it started awarding degrees and the name was changed to The Language Technologies Institute.
The current director of the institute is Professor Jaime Carbonell
Jaime Carbonell
Jaime G. Carbonell is Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science and the director of the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.He earned his B.S. degrees in Physics and in Mathematics from MIT in 1975 and his Ph.D. under Dr...
.
See also
- Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University
- Human Computer Interaction InstituteCarnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction InstituteThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute is a department within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is considered to be one of the leading centers of human-computer interaction research,...
at Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer ScienceCarnegie Mellon School of Computer ScienceThe School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is a leading private school for computer science established in 1965. It has been consistently ranked among the top computer science programs over the decades. U.S...
at Carnegie Mellon University