The Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) ( el, Ινστιτούτο Επεξεργασίας του Λόγου, ΙΕΛ) is an
Athens
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based,
Greek
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non-profit private foundation focusing on applied research in various areas mainly related to language technology. In 1991 ILSP was established as a research institute; it operates under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation,
Ministry of Development and Investment. ILSP is the oldest institute of
Athena Research & Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Science Technologies. The institute also has a division in
Xanthi
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.
The goal of ILSP is to support the growth of
Language Technology Language technology, often called human language technology (HLT), studies methods of how computer programs or electronic devices can analyze, produce, modify or respond to human texts and speech. Working with language technology often requires broa ...
in
Greece
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. To this end, it has brought together a team of experts creating the necessary technical infrastructure in accordance with the
European Community
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policy towards safeguarding the European
cultural heritage
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through technology. ILSP aims to be a pole of attraction for the
language industry
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, which is growing both in Greece and in the rest of
Europe
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, thus contributing to the expansion of activities in this particularly important area of current IT. The industrial direction which it maintains, the know-how of its researchers and the close relations it keeps with key research centres in other European countries, are the three basic elements of the institute's profile.
The main areas that form ILSP’s research agenda are:
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Natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...
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Embodied language processing
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Speech
Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses Phonetics, phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if ...
and
music technology
Music technology is the study or the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, playback or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music.
History
The earlies ...
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Multimedia
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processing
* Multilingual content processing
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Sign language
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technologies
* Technology-enhanced
language learning
Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language (in other words, gain the ability to be aware of language and to understand it), as well as to produce and use words and sentences to ...
*
Language development
Language development in humans is a process starting early in life. Infants start without knowing a language, yet by 10 months, babies can distinguish speech sounds and engage in babbling. Some research has shown that the earliest learning begin ...
and
assessment
Assessment may refer to:
Healthcare
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* Digital
cultural archives
ILSP carries out
applied research
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in
man-machine interfaces,
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence.
Machine ...
,
speech processing
Speech processing is the study of speech signals and the processing methods of signals. The signals are usually processed in a digital representation, so speech processing can be regarded as a special case of digital signal processing, applied t ...
,
text processing
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''Text'' usually refers to all the alphanumeric characters specified on the keyboard of the person engaging t ...
,
theoretical
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and
computational linguistics
Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, comput ...
, and
language learning
Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language (in other words, gain the ability to be aware of language and to understand it), as well as to produce and use words and sentences to ...
technologies. Expertise used by the Institute includes basic fields such as
natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...
,
digital signal processing
Digital signal processing (DSP) is the use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations. The digital signals processed in this manner are ...
and
pattern recognition
Pattern recognition is the automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data. It has applications in statistical data analysis, signal processing, image analysis, information retrieval, bioinformatics, data compression, computer graphi ...
. The institute's mission is mainly to support research by successfully combining the basic and applied perspectives and pursue complementary collaborations in the areas of interest, while maintaining a societal and industrial relevance.
ILSP has been creating the necessary technical infrastructure and a collaborative interdisciplinary framework enabling to:
* establish a comprehensive digitized repository of Modern Greek language data and resources to be used for a variety of purposes (research, education, preservation, evolution, dissemination, translation etc.)
* work on the interface between Modern Greek language and the other languages of the world
* develop highly innovative language and semiotic technologies.
See also
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List of research institutes in Greece
This is a list of research institutes in Greece.
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State-run institutes
* "Athena" Research and Innovation Center in ICT and Knowledge Technologies (formerly KETEP/IRIS)
** Industrial Systems Institute (INBIS/ISI)
** Institute for Langua ...
References
External links
Official website
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Linguistic research institutes
Research institutes in Greece
Organizations based in Athens