Natural Language Processing

If any of the following applies to you, you are in the right place:

As a researcher, do you want to base your empirical findings on linguistic data such as text collections or voice recordings?
Does your team need help in collecting, managing, processing, or visualising linguistic data?
Do you want to automate tedious manual tasks?
Do you intend to make your documents machine-readable?
Do you want to detect historical trends, political leanings, and personal stance in natural language data?
Do you have an interesting application in mind which is built on text, audio recordings or eye-tracking data?
Do you want to use semantic analysis methods like collocations, word embeddings and Neural Networks?
Do you want to get started implementing language technology solutions yourself?
Do you have historical documents that you are looking to digitize?

If you need help with the technological side of things, we are here for you!

The Language Technology group consists of experts who support your text and voice technology needs.

We offer consulting, coaching, and support in the following scenarios (among others):

Digitization of printed texts and manuscripts (including OCR)
Efficient information extraction and analysis of large text collections
Enrichment of texts with named entities, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and classification, including multilingual and historical documents
Advice on tools, software, and best practices
Help with project applications and common projects

Teasers from our Research

Example from a Worskshop, teaching Content Analysis with R

Example of a Result: Conceptual Map of Associations to Wine, Cider and Beer

Characterisation of the Language of Donald Trump

Speech-to-text backend for virtual telephone switchboard