The Cognitive and Communication Technologies (TCC) division at ITC-Irst is a major European research group in areas such as Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction and Dialogue Systems, Multi-modality and Natural Language Generation, Production and Maintenance of Linguistic Resources, Linguistic Theory. Being part of ITC-Irst, TCC is a member of the European Network of Excellence in Natural Language and Speech (ELSNET).

Currently, our activities are organised into two main areas:

• TEXTEC (Technologies for Text Processing) investigates both basic and applied issues in text processing:
  Question Answering, Word Sense Disambiguation and Information Extraction. It also addresses the construction
  and maintenance of linguistic resources: Lexica and Wordnets, Grammars, Corpora, etc.
• i3p (Intelligent and Interactive Information Presentation) is involved in the study and design of systems for presenting information to users, stressing such aspects as adaptivity and supports for interaction, with an
  emphasis on the study and optimisation of the interactions between language and other modalities (images,
  video, animations, etc.). Scenarios are varied, ranging from web- to mobile (PDA)-based information presentation.
  TCC is also active in the field of Machine Translation, and in particular speech-to-speech translation.

  TCC is committed to both basic and applied research and has considerable ties with many major research centres all over the world. The division has regular and fruitful relationships with private companies, especially those operating in the Web world, telecommunications and multimedia publishing. In addition, TCC has a long record of participation in EU funded projects.
  
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