Human Language Technology Laboratory

tuguese. The long term goal of L²F was to bridge the gap between natural spoken language and the underlying semantic information. The HLT laboratory includes researchers/faculty from various universities, as well as graduate and post-graduate researchers. Their background ranges from Electrical Engineering, to Computer Science, and Linguistics. This strongly interdisciplinary group is actively involved in many areas of language research and development, both spoken and written, including, without limitation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech coding, speech understanding, audio indexing, multimodal dialogue systems, language and dialect identification, speech-to-speech machine translation, automatic summarization, natural language database interfaces, natural language generation, text simplification, named entity recognition, question answering, among others and in no particular order.