Mission
The Center for Speech and
Language Processing is an
inter-departmental unit at the Adam
Mickiewicz University (AMU) in
Poznań, Poland. Its main inspiration
has been our cooperation with the Center
for Spoken Language Research at
the University of Colorado,
Boulder, USA, and its director Ronald Cole while developing the Polish
version of the Colorado Literacy Tutor.
The mission of the Center is to support new research, introduce new
values into science, and, as a priority, create a platform for
interdisciplinary research projects carried out by scientists from
various fields (such as computer science, linguistics, philology,
psychology, pedagogy). Its aim is to develop various social
applications (such as interactive CALL programs with unique
motivational features, speech therapy programs etc.).
The main specific tasks of the Center are:
- gathering linguistic data (linguistic corpora of various types);
- conducting research focussed on Polish;
- creating speech processing technologies, especially for Polish and 'second' languages in the Polish context (such as English, German, French);
- developing multimodal systems;
- carrying out inter-departmental teaching projects;
- initiating international cooperation with similar centers around the world (the Center for Spoken Language Research is our first international partner).
In addition to permanent
support from AMU, the Center is financed
using Polish governmental funds and other sources, including foreign
(e.g. European Union) sources.
All of this creates a new quality for our University. Interdisciplinary
research is a necessity in the 21st century.