Human Language Technologies (HLT) has been, for over two decades, a key player in speech processing, natural language processing and computational linguistics, with a multidisciplinary team bridging natural spoken language and its underlying semantic information.
Our research topics include speech recognition and synthesis, multimodal dialogue systems, natural language interfaces, speech and text analytics, summarisation, machine translation (including to portuguese sign language), and biosignals that capture brain activity for human-machine interaction and cognitive information mapping. We have a long history of work in areas with societal relevance, including health, education, security and entertainment.
