Research at CSLU

Research Overview

Research activities at CSLU are generally divided into Research Groups and Research Projects.

Research groups:

focus on specific problem areas, such speech enhancement, speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue modeling and speech generation.

Research projects use and evaluate these research advances in specific application domains. Current research projects include:

development and distribution of the CSLU toolkit;
development of an Italian CSLU toolkit;
development of a Mexican Spanish CSLU toolkit;
development of a Brazilian Portuguese CSLU toolkit;
and development of an animated conversational agent for learning and language training with profoundly deaf children.

Our goal at CSLU is to make interactive systems work. This requires basic research to advance core language technologies, and the evaluation of research advances in the context of real-world applications. At CSLU, basic research is conducted in Research Groups. Research advances are integrated into the CSLU Toolkit, and evaluated in the context of applications developed using the toolkit's authoring tools.