Center for Language Technologies (CeLT)
CeLT is composed of full-time faculty members dedicated in the pursuit of researches that deal with both programming and human languages. The Natural Language Processing Research Team is now under this center.
Research Group (Faculty)
- Ethel C. Ong (Ph.D. Computer Science, De La Salle University)
- Charibeth K. Cheng (Ph.D. Computer Science, De La Salle University)
- Edward P. Tighe (M.Sc. Computer Science, De La Salle University)
- Allan B. Borra (M.Sc. Computer Science, De La Salle University)
- Joel P. Ilao (Ph.D. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of the Philippines-Diliman)
Research Activities
Faculty members involved in the Center spearhead projects and mentor undergraduate and graduate students that include the areas of:
- Natural language understanding which also includes morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse analysis
- Dialogue systems that allow human-like interfacing with computer systems/subsystems such as repositories and knowledge bases
- Natural language generation that involves automatically generating stories, text reports, and summaries
- Text classification
- Machine translation
- Plagiarism detection
- Automatic and semi-automatic creation of linguistic resources such as language models
- Information extraction that transforms any free-form written texts into structured, database-like representations
Aside from spearheading and promoting the Natural Language Processing (NLP) research in the country, the Center is posing as the de facto NLP research hub in the Philippines. The group is a member of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), Asian Federation of NLP (AFNLP), Parallel Grammar Initiative (PARGRAM) of Palo Alto Research Center (XEROX-PARC), and STIC-Asia, with many tie-ups and collaboration with other researchers in the Asian region.