Hungarian Academy of Science - Research Institute for Linguistics (HAS-RIL)

The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (RIL-HAS) is one of the leading research centres at the forefront of Human Language Technology research and development in Hungary.

The Institute has a track record of successfully completing several EU funded research projects (MULTEXTEAST, CONCEDE, TELRI I, TELRI II, MATCHPAD), which aimed at the application and adaptation of language technology standards to Central and Eastern European languages, such as the development of a document classification technology for Hungarian based on the EUROVOC thesaurus, as well as at the creation and development of new standards. In recent years, it has also been engaged in several major Language Technology projects funded by the Hungarian Government in the field of machine translation, ontology building, information extraction, lexical databases and Treebank development. RIL-HAS is as one of the founding institutions of the pan-European infrastructure project CLARIN and is the coordinator of the Hungarian Speech and Language Technology Platform.

RIL-HAS has accumulated invaluable language resources in the field of Hungarian morphology and syntax, and has developed expertise in morphological analysis, partial parsing, named entity recognition, semantic frame analysis and verb argument structures. Recently, the Institute has finished work on several resources that are of direct relavance to the CACAO project: a Hungarian-English machine translation system, and the Hungarian WordNet are available results of past joint project work. As a technical partner, RIL-HAS is providing the tools and resources for Hungarian processing in the CACAO project, working in close collaboration with the National Széchenyi Library (NSL).