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University of Edinburgh
Stanford University
Team
The University of Edinburgh is a leading international centre of academic excellence, and one of the largest and most successful research universities in the UK.
The School of Informatics is one of seven schools in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. The school was created to bring together research and teaching in Computer Science, Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence.
In the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (the most recent), the School of
Informatics was the only department in the UK awarded the top 5*A rating in
Computer Science, and with over 100 research active staff, it is also the UK's
largest research group in this area.
Researchers working on Link projects have been selected from the following
specialist research centres within the School of Informatics:
The Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC) is an interdisciplinary research centre that works closely with the departments of Linguistics , Philosophy , and Psychology . HCRC research has implications for the effectiveness of communications between companies, institutions, customers and individuals. Research areas cover issues from familiarity with information technology to individual differences between the way and style that people use to learn and communicate.
The Centre for Speech and Technology Research (CSTR) was founded in 1984, and concerned with research in all areas of speech technology including speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech signal processing, information access, multimodal interfaces and dialogue systems. The centre collaborates with the wider community of researchers in language, cognition and machine learning for which Edinburgh is renowned.
The Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) is dedicated to the pursuit of basic research into the nature of communication among humans and between humans and machines using text, speech, and graphics, and the design of interactive dialog systems, using computational and algorithmic approaches, with applications including natural language processing, information retrieval and presentation, education, musical analysis, and instruction.
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