The Research Group in Computational Linguistics was founded in 1998 as part of the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences and since 2005 it has been a member of the Research Institute in Information and Language Processing. The group is led by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov and is pursuing active research in a wide variety of topics in computational linguistics. The group has established an international reputation which can be seen through our projects and papers.

The results from the recent Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17 December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research output of the group has been rated as internationally leading, internationally excellent and internationally recognised.

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 top 6 best in the UK.

• 2009-11-17Erasmus Mundus Masters Course - International Masters in NLP and HLT: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS students and scholars
• 2009-10-16The proceedings and presentations from the eETTS workshop are now available online.
• 2009-08-06The system developed by Iustin Dornescu was ranked first for the second year in a row at the GikiCLEF competition. Iustin competed against 16 other systems and his overall score was almost double that of the second place competitor. Iustin's system processed questions with geographical constraints in ten languages and for nine out of ten languages he obtained the best results. More information can be found here. The Research Group in Computational Linguistics would like to congratulate Iustin on his excellent performance.

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