NLP / Human Language Technology

The LiRI service area NLP / Human Language Technology offers services in the fields of Computational and Corpus Linguistics, such as collecting and processing language data, development and maintenance of purpose-built applications, long-term archival of research data, tailored workshops, consulting, and coaching.

• Text Analytics & Data Mining
• Content Analysis
• Information Retrieval & Extraction
• Part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, semantic tagging
• Sentiment Detection
• Creation and adaption of language models
• Data Classification
• Machine Learning (including Neural Networks & Deep Learning)
• Machine Translation
• Statistical Data Processing
• Audio signal processing
• Speech Recognition and Synthesis
• Data conversion

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of texts with named entities, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and classification, including multilingual and historical documents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

Examples of available software tools:

• Natural Language Processing such as automatic part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, semantic tagging etc.
• Data crawling/scraping and processing of web sources, batch download of documents, conversion to XML/JSON
• Workflow tool for the management of linguistic annotation
• Providing access to specialized software for semiautomatic data transcription
• Implementation and configuration of tools for automatic text analysis and classification
• General machine learning tasks (supervised or unsupervised), Neural Network Learning etc.
• Audio signal processing (e.g. for human speech or animal vocalisations)

The same prices and regulations apply here as do for other LiRI services. Please see LiRI: Information on Prices and Regulations for further information. Do not hesitate to reach out to services@linguistik.uzh.ch if you have any questions or are interested in working with us.