University of Sheffield
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk GATE project
Partner Contributions
- Text analysis (press, Internet, speech transcripts)
- Metrics and evaluation
- Product knowledge interlinking
- Knowledge fusion for campaign discovery.
The Natural Language Processing (NLP) group at the University of Sheffield is one of the largest and most successful research groups in language and information in the EU. The group is based in the Department of Computer Science, and includes world-class teams in the areas of speech, language, knowledge and information processing, biotechnology, and machine learning for medical informatics.
The Department of Computer Science was founded in 1982 and since then has established national and international renown for many aspects of its teaching and research. The NLP group has focussed on robust engineering of open source software and on scientific method (quantitative evaluation and repeatability) in AI.
For MediaCampaign Sheffield's GATE team will participate, producers of a General Architecture for Text Engineering (which has many thousands of users at sites world-wide, and was recently assessed as “outstanding” and “internationally leading” by an anonymous peer review). The team has been active in multimedia analysis and data fusion for a number of years, for example in the MUMIS multimedia indexing and search project, and the PrestoSpace preservation and access project. Recent research partnerships include some of the largest initiatives in Europe: NEON, MUSING, TAO, SEKT, PRESTOSPACE, KNOWLEDGEWEB, AKT, etc.
Contacts:
- Hamish Cunningham - hamish@dcs.shef.ac.uk
- Julien Nioche - julien@dcs.shef.ac.uk