Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing at RIT
Natural language processing (NLP) and speech processing at RIT is a research-active area led by Dr. Cecilia Alm’s and Dr. Marcos Zampieri’s laboratories. The groups’ research projects, supported by external or internal awards, provide graduate and undergraduate students with mentored experiential learning opportunities.
NLP at RIT's curricular offerings include natural language processing and speech processing coursework for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. We welcome students and collaborators who are curious about natural language, artificial intelligence, and human cognition and who bring a passion for advancing science and technology.
Dr. Alm is PI for the NSF-funded REU Site Computational Sensing for Human-centered AI.
Research Labs and Facilities
The Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (CLaSP) lab at RIT is dedicated to advancing applied and theoretical research involving text, speech, dialogue, and multimodal data. Research in Alm’s lab includes projects focused on intelligent affective computing, humans’ roles in AI such as in interactive machine learning, language/multimodal sensing and systems that make inference from and support multimodal dialogue interactions.
Members of the Language Technology Group work on various topics in computational linguistics and natural language processing. We are interested in collecting, processing, and analyzing large collections of texts from different domains (e.g. news, social media) written in various languages and dialects.
Current foci and recent projects in the group include language acquisition, readability, and educational applications; language variation and automatic language identification; user interaction in social media; and machine translation.
Research
National Science Foundation
Amount: 23,968
National Science Foundation
Amount: $4,188
National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,994,676
STINT
Amount: 139,000 SEK, MAU, T. Pederson PI
National Science Foundation
Amount: $379,927, incl. $20,000 supplement.
Latest News
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December 6, 2023
Generative AI is changing education
Like many fields, the world of academia is wrestling with the challenges and opportunities presented by generative AI tools. While a few K-12 school districts, international universities, and businesses have attempted to ban the use of AI tools, RIT is acknowledging that it’s here to stay and can be used as a force for good.
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October 2, 2023
Fall semester brings plentiful opportunities for international exchanges
As part of RIT’s ongoing commitment to academic and cultural exchanges, several cohorts of international students, including those from Ireland, Germany, and Indonesia, visited campus this fall. The visits were spearheaded, in part, by RIT Global, which has developed partnerships with nearly 100 countries.
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December 14, 2022
RIT develops interdisciplinary master’s degree in artificial intelligence
RIT is offering a new master’s degree in artificial intelligence (AI). The program begins in fall 2023 and enrollment is now open. The Master of Science degree aims to prepare students from diverse educational backgrounds to become well-rounded AI professionals.
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September 21, 2023
Teams present at Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction conference
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October 28, 2022
Giguere presents at NSF Research Traineeship Annual Meeting
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August 4, 2022
Alm serves as tutorial co-chair for computational linguistics conference
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March 29, 2022
Alm, Bailey organize workshop on computational sensing