Central and Eastern European Survey
Department of Applied Informatics
Technical University of Gdansk General Info
Type of Organisation: public
Number of Employees: Less than 10
Activities developed: Research, Education.
The main area of research is the use of finite-state automata in
natural language processing. Main achievements include two sets
of programs that construct and use finite state automata and
transducers. They can be used for spelling correction, accent
restoration, morphology, etc. They are described in more detail
at
http://www.pg.gda.pl/~jandac/fsa.html. There is also a
library of a subset of functions of one of those packages (the
fsa package), which also provides compressed language models.
Jan Daciuk is the only person involved in the NLP in the department,
and he is on leave from the department as a postdoc in Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen, the Netherlands. He should return in February 2003.
The computing facilities at the department include 17 Sparc stations
working under Solaris and several PCs (Windows/Linux), all connected
to the internet.
For an overview of the research done in the department see
http://www.eti.pg.gda.pl/KATEDRY/kzi/en/research.html.
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