NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Language is the most natural and dominant mode of communication, and arguably one of the main visible signals of higher intelligence. At the same time, language is messy, ambiguous and ever-changing so to decipher it you need a good amount of cultural, common-sense and contextual understanding. To fulfill our vision of Ambient Intelligence where intelligent devices communicate seamlessly with us, we need to considerably improve existing technology and methods that solve NLP problems. That’s exactly what we do.

Natural Language Understanding

We address what’s often called the “Natural Language Understanding” part, by going beyond simple named entity extraction to get the real meaning of user-generated-content, both the objective part as well as the subjective one. We match our understanding of the textual item to our understanding of the needs of the human to provide the right textual item at the right time.
In addition to work on machine translation, focusing particularly on the robustness of those models, we also tackle other natural language generation applications such as summarization.
As a European lab of a Korean company we’re distinctly aware of how real the language barrier can be, and we improve the current state-of-the-art in multilingual applications and machine translation.

Method-wise, we’re particularly interested in how to combine the power and flexibility of deep neural networks with the rich prior knowledge present in decades of linguistic studies and prior knowledge of the task at hand. This gives us better results with less training data.

Sensitive to the tension between our data-hungry algorithms and the importance of protecting privacy we develop privacy-preserving data-mining techniques.