Natural Language Processing Research Group

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The Natural Language Processing Research Group is a university-based research group in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, established in 1993. It is one of the largest and longest-running language processing groups in the UK. Working at the intersection of computational linguistics and computer science, it uses computational methods both to investigate the properties of written human language and the cognitive mechanisms behind understanding and producing it, and to build practical applications that process written language intelligently. Its research spans information access, language resources and architectures for language processing, machine translation, human-computer dialogue systems, detection of reuse and anomaly, foundational topics such as word sense disambiguation and the semantics of time and events, language processing for social media, and biomedical text processing. The group develops and maintains GATE, the General Architecture for Text Engineering, a long-standing open-source text-engineering platform. Through GATE it has contributed to a wide range of arts, humanities and cultural-heritage work, including the annotation and web-based analysis of literary Sumerian, named entity recognition over seventeenth-century Old Bailey court records, electronic corpora of South Asian languages, digital-library and European cultural-heritage projects, and the transformation of archives into community memories, alongside applied work on social media, online disinformation and elections.

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1993

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University of Sheffield
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