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Welcome to the Heriot-Watt University (HWU) Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab. We are ranked at 59th place for NLP research worldwide, which is pretty awesome considering that this group started less than 10 years ago! We are well on track to extrapolate this growth graph.
We are working on the intersection of NLP and Machine Learning for interdisciplinary applications, including:
Spoken Dialogue Systems & ChatBots
Natural Language Generation, incl. Data-to-text, Summarisation and Evaluation
Socio-technical applications, such as Mitigating Hatespeech
We are affiliated with the Interaction Lab, the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, and the HWU Human Robot Interaction group.
Contact:
v.t.rieser (at) hw.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 451 4192