Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Coor. )
Spain
GLiCom is the Computational Linguistics Research Group at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), which ranks among the top five Spanish universities. Since 1994, GLiCom has been actively working on Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics as well as on symbolic and statistical approaches to Natural Language Processing, having participated in a number of UE funded and national projects, involving research in areas such as: information extraction (including sentiment analysis), recommendation, grammar and style checking, Machine Translation, voice synthesis, translators’ training and language training.
L3S Research Center of the Leibniz University of Hannover
Germany
The L3S Research Center is a research center for basic and applied research in the field of Web Science. The L3S is a joint research institute of several universities in Lower Saxony, Germany formally associated with Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH). The L3S researchers develop new, innovative methods and technologies that enable intelligent and seamless access to information on the Web, link individuals and communities in all aspects of the knowledge society – including science and education, and connect the Internet to the real world and its institutions.
Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Maine
France
LIUM was created twenty-five years ago. It is the Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Le Mans. It gathers most teacher-researchers in computer science of the University of Maine. It is directed by Prof. Yannick Estève and it is composed of 24 teacher-researchers and 20 PhD students and non-permanent researchers.
LIUM is composed of two research teams:
– a team working on Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL), which includes twelve permanent researchers (professors and associate professors), with Dr Sébastien Iksal at its head;
– a team specializing in automatic speech recognition and machine translation (Language and Speech Technology — LST), with twelve permanent researchers under the direction of Prof. Paul Deléglise.
VSN Innovation and Media Solutions
Spain
VSN is a high technology company with a global presence, specialized in providing advanced IT infrastructure based solutions to the media and broadcast sectors.
VSN offers solutions to solve the needs of audiovisual content creation, management and distribution environments in TV channels, content production and distributing companies, government institutions, universities and news agencies.
With offices in Barcelona (HQ), Dubai, Montevideo, Miami, Moscow, Hong Kong and a technology excellence center in Alicante, VSN offers worldwide and close coverage to its clients.
VSN solutions solve the entire workflow of an audiovisual company, improving its efficiency and walking hand in hand with it towards multiplatform and cloud environments.
Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Informationsforschung
Germany
GFAI is a non profit organisation that owns a non-profit institute, the Institute for Applied Information Sciences (IAI), which carries out research and development projects. IAI was founded as an R&D organisation in 1985 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Staff counts over 15 full-time employees, including computer scientists, software engineers, multimedia specialists, computational linguists, linguists, translators and interpreters. At present, the institute’s major activity is in the area of multilingual language technology, in particular language control and checking tools, multilingual information retrieval and information filtering, as well as general knowledge management.
IDIAP Research Institute
Switzerland
The Idiap Research Institute is an independent, nonprofit, research foundation affiliated with Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Its research activities are centered on Human & Media Computing, which encompass basic research and development in the areas of multimedia information management, perceptual and cognitive systems, social media, biometric person recognition, multimodal information interfaces, and large scale machine learning.
Deutsche Welle
Germany
Deutsche Welle is Germany’s international public service broadcaster. It has been producing content for a worldwide audience since 1953. Deutsche Welle’s Innovation Projects Unit will carry out requirements analysis, testing and validation of EUMSSI results, participation in and co-developments of EUMSSI pilot applications and services and the dissemination of project results and activities.