Affiliates and Collaborators

The foundation upon which the Institute for Language and Information Technologies rests is a culmination of many years’ work by numerous individuals and organizations. Through much collaboration and joint effort, ILIT brings with it decades of research and a multitude of project knowledge. Many people and organizations have contributed through the years to the building of this foundation, and the following in particular organizations with which ILIT has close affiliation:

Onyx Consulting, Inc. is the commercial technology transfer arm of ILIT. The company carries out R&D activities where results of the basis research obtained at ILIT (and prior to that, at NMSU CRL, see below) are extended to broader coverage of languages and knowledge domains and embodied in a variety of application systems that are more advanced on the continuum from initial proof-of-concept systems on small data sets through medium-scale prototypes to broad-coverage comprehensive end applications.

The Computing Research Laboratory (CRL), New Mexico State University, where the three founding members of ILIT all worked before coming to UMBC, continues to be a close collaborator. ILIT and CRL jointly work on projects and strongly rely on the processing and knowledge resources available at either site for new initiatives.

CoGenTex, Inc. is a partner with ILIT and CRL in the MOQA question-answering project.

Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Purdue University.

Dr. Antonio Moreno Ortiz @ University of Malaga, Spain.

Linguistica ’98, Inc. Dr. Michael Blekhman

Cogito is a group of UMBC CSEE faculty members interested in any of the many different aspects of human cognitive abilities and especially their modeling using computers.