Core Areas of Interest：

• Speech recognition

• Voice search

• Quality of speech recognition

• Disfluency processing

• Speaker identification

• Forensic linguistics

• Voice-enabled personal assistants

• Semantics and ontologies

• Information retrieval, information extraction, text mining and question answering

• Topic spotting and classification

• Named entities / entity extraction

• Summarization

• Spoken document retrieval

• Semantics and ontologies

• Conversational systems, dialogue modelling and management

• Open domains, incrementality, statistical DM, hybrid models, world knowledge, metacognition

• Machine translation

• Fully-automated MT services in global business and government services

• Speech-to-speech MT

• Development Frameworks

• Multimodality

• Multilinguality

• Language resources and Evaluation

• Multilingual resources

• Metadata, annotation, tools

• Machine Learning

• Active learning

• Reinforcement learning

• Deep learning

• Applications

• Big Data

• Social media, Sentiment analysis and Opinion mining

• Mathematical foundations

Convergent Areas of Interest：

• Mobile Devices

• Robotics and Vision

• Games & Social Networks

• Brain-computer Interfaces

• Technology background: Mobile, Cloud, etc.

• The Internet of Things (IoT)

• Industrial Areas of Interest

• Integration of state-of-the-art LT in support of multilingual global business applications

• Speech-to-Speech Translation

• Cross-lingual Information Retrieval

• Multilingual global marketing

• Sentiment analysis

• Applications to industrial sectors

• Healthcare and BioMedicine NLP

• Social Media

• Smart Cities

• Opinion Mining

• Public Administration

• Instruction & Teaching

• Communications

• LT in the Web World

• Crowdsourcing for LT