Mission

The mission of the Center for Natural Language Processing is to advance the development of human-like language understanding software capabilities for government, commercial, and consumer applications.

Objectives

• To conduct leading-edge research and development in Natural Language  Processing and its most promising applications.
  
  
• To secure significant government funding from those organizations that have shown vision in the field of Natural Language Processing and have provided substantive funding to back that vision.
  
  
• To work collaboratively with a wide range of partners to bring the Center’s research into full play for a broader spectrum of users.
  
  
• To provide meaningful research opportunities to IST’s community of scholars, including faculty, graduate students, and post