Document Type

Newsletter

Date

Winter 2002

Embargo Period

10-18-2010

Keywords

natural language processing, NLP, automatic metadata generation, question-answering, information extraction

Language

English

Disciplines

Library and Information Science | Linguistics

Description/Abstract

The Center for Natural Language Processing (CNLP) was founded in September 1999 in the School of Information Studies, the “Original Information School”, at Syracuse University. CNLP’s mission is to advance the development of human-like, language understanding software capabilities for government, commercial, and consumer applications. The Center conducts both basic and applied research, building on its recognized capabilities in Natural Language Processing. The Center’s seventeen employees are a mix of doctoral students in information science or computer engineering, software engineers, linguistic analysts, and research engineers.