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= Natural Language Processing Centre = #Natural_Language_Processing_Centre
The research in Natural Language Processing Centre at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, is devoted to the following areas:

 1. Lexical databases with relation to knowledge representation (Czech !WordNet and Czech Lexical Database). Tools for viewing and editing dictionaries represented in XML format.
 1. Improvement and further development of the tools for morphological analysis of Czech and other languages, solving the word derivation problems.
 1. Development of syntactic parsers (partial and general) for Czech and other languages and their exploitation as disambiguators.
 1. The problems of syntactic and semantic analysis, knowledge representation and reasoning based on Transparent Intensional Logic.
 1. Building corpora, tagging and disambiguating corpus text, tools for corpus modification, maintenance, corpus managers and graphical interface for corpora.
 1. Exploring techniques and methods of machine learning for the purpose of natural language processing.
 1. Application of NLP techniques in the area of man-machine communication and internet technologies aiming at analysis, mining and generating of text and speech.

Essential educational goal of the NLP Centre is to offer interesting research opportunities both for pregraduate and postgraduate students and train them within the new field of language engineering.

== News ==

The NLP Centre offers longer term (1-3 years) positions in research and development projects for students of Doctoral programs or Master programs who are planning post gradual studies. These positions are financed via scholarships or as part-time jobs and can significantly increase the standard doctoral scholarship at FI MU. More information: [[en/PhdCalls]]

NLP Centre develops software system supporting the research project [http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/research/bristolcentreforlinguistics/researchatbcl/fanuk.aspx Family Names in Britain and Ireland] (run by the University of the West of England since 2010). In February 2015, the results of the first phase of the project were submitted to the Oxford University Press, scheduled for publication in 2017.


In 2013, MIT Press published a book by Patrick Hanks with the title Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations. Patrick Hanks worked in NLP Centre at FI MU in the past (2006-2008) under the grant by the Czech Academy of Sciences. In his book, Patrick Hanks offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. The book fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lexical-analysis-0 Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations]

== What can you find on nlp.fi.muni.cz? ==

[[en/MainTopics| What do we work on in the NLP Centre?]]

What do computers have in common with language? [[en/LangToolsLinks| Try some of our language tools]].

'''Basic information:'''

 * [[en/Interesting|Interesting articles about NLP]]

 * [[en/GrantProjects|Grant projects]]

 * [[en/NlpInMedia|NLP Centre in media]]

 * [[en/Publications|Publications of NLP Centre]]

 * [https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/cs/Lide Members of NLP Centre] (in Czech)

 * [[en/TSDConference| Text, Speech and Dialogue conference]]

 * [[cs/LaboratorniSeminar|Laboratory seminar]] (in Czech)

 * [http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/declaration/ Declaration of users of programs or data from NLP Centre]