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The UK has an ever-growing
HLT scene, with researchers, developers and suppliers in all Language
Technology areas. The number of 'spin-off' companies that are now established
in the sector goes to show how technology transfer is working, and how
a market for HLT applications is growing.
This page focuses
on HLT researchers, developers and suppliers, and provides examples
of projects underway that have potential for commercial applications
in the near future.
Speech Applications:
This constantly
growing area is a major language technology that is finding a large
market base, and is becoming an industry in its own right.
Speed and accuracy
in speech processors means that they are no longer a theoretical idea,
but are rapidly being placed in commercially viable products. And
the development of VoiceXML as a standard means that web-based speech
products are able to communicate with each other.
Follow our links
for details on Speech
Application Companies and Products, Speech
Application Research Centres, and, more specifically,
Speech
Recognition Research Projects and Speech
Synthesis Research Projects.
Knowledge Technologies:
'Knowledge Management'
is a buzz word at the moment, and is generating a big interest due
to the growth of intranets. Large companies need to be as functional
as possible, and are implementing systems for dealing with huge banks
of information.
This development
area actually encompasses a variety of 'human language technologies',
including information retrieval, text mining and a host of multilingual
possibilities. And the EC's new FP6 programmes is rumoured to have
strong emphasis on the area of 'knowledge technologies'.
Follow our links
for information on Knowledge
Technologies companies and products,
research centres involved in Knowledge Technologies
and Knowledge Technologies research projects.
Machine
Translation:
The pull for
globalization and the use of the internet as a commercial channel
has led to a demand for a large localization industry.
Machine Translation
research is an expanding area across Europe, and with over half
of all web users speaking languages other than English, this research
is fast crossing the line into commercial applications.
Market research
house IDC predicts that the Cross Lingual Applications market, which
represent services provisioned around multilingual content management
systems, machine technology (MT), and linguistics tools (i.e. language
technologies) will reach e319m by 2005.
Follow this
link for information on Machine
Translation companies and products.
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