Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI) Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien Tel.: +43-1-53361120, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@ai.univie.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------- VORTRAG ******* Assoc.Prof.Dr.Ivan KOPECEK Masaryk University Brno NLP RESEARCH IN THE FACULTY OF INFORMATICS AT MASARYK UNIVERSITY BRNO The research carried out by the NLP (Natural Language Processing) group of the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University Brno will be over- viewed in the presentation. The principal aims of this research involve the text-corpora based analysis of Czech (disambiguation methods, morphological and syntax analysis, and building up a Czech lexical Wordnet database), speech technologies and dialogue systems (speech segmentation, in particular for syllable segments, syllable-based speech synthesis and recognition, modeling and developing of speech interfaces and dialogue systems) and applications of AI methods (especially machine learning) to the analysis of natural languages. The developed tools for corpora analysis, the TTS system Demosthenes, as well as some applications, especially in the field of the assistive technologies for visually impaired persons, will also be briefly described. Zeit: Freitag, 28.Jaenner 2000, 14:30 Uhr pktl. (*** Bitte Beginnzeit beachten ***) Ort: OeFAI, Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien 1. OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE o.Univ.-Prof.Dr.Robert Trappl