The Research Institute in Information and Language Processing (RIILP) brings together two complementary and interdisciplinary research teams that explore the potential of advanced computing technologies for ‘understanding’ human language and social sciences, respectively.
Both groups have built an international reputation for research excellence, and are committed to delivering practical (including commercial) applications based on their research findings.
The Research Group of Computational Linguistics is pursuing research in a number of areas at the interface of computers and human language. In particular, the group seeks to provide effective solutions to the many problems that computers have in coping with the complex and intuitive system that is human language.
Research areas include
The group plans to embark on new areas of multidisciplinary, multimodal and multilingual applied research such as multilingual and multimodal applications for both healthcare and e-learning, and translation technology.
The Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group is an Information Science research group developing software and methodologies to exploit Internet-based data sources for social sciences research, including link analysis, cybermetrics and webometrics.
Particular specialisms include
RIILP has secured funding from a variety of national and international research sponsors and has recently embarked on a number of projects designed to exploit the commercial potential of the research findings of its research groups.
Two systems set up by Constantin Orasan and Iustin Dornescu were ranked second and third for the above challenge. Further information about the results
Natalia Ponomareva, one of the research fellows in the Research Institute in Information and Language Processing, was recently given the prestigious award of 'Best Paper' at a top European Conference. The Programme Committee of the 14th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems NLDB 2009 at Saarbruecken, Germany, commended Natalia with the 'Reind Van De Riet Memorial Award' for the best paper in the Main Conference for the contribution: AIR: A Semi-Automatic System for Archiving Institutional Repositories by Natalia Ponomareva, Jose Manuel Gomez Soriano and Viktor Pekar.
The results from the recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) announced on 17 December 2008, confirm the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing as one of the top performers in UK research. Both groups which form the institute – the Statistical Cybernetics Research Group and the Research Group in Computational Linguistics are among the UK leading groups in their fields.
Statistical Cybermetrics was entered in Unit of Assessment "Library and Information Management" and in national context, Wolverhampton was ranked joint 2nd with 4 more universities. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research Fortnight, research in Library and Information Management at the University of Wolverhampton is one of the 6 best in the UK.
Computational Linguistics was entered in Unit of Assessment "Linguistics" and Wolverhampton was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton is one of the 6 best in the UK.
