TALN Natural Language Processing Research Group

The TALN group, Tractament Automàtic del Llenguatge Natural (Natural Language Processing), is part of the Department/School Engineering, at Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona. The group is led by Professor Horacio Saggion and integrated by faculty, researchers, postdocs and PhD students. We welcome international and national visitors as well as Erasmus program students every year.

What we do:

• We develop robust multilingual single-document and multi-document summarization technology.
• We are working on abstractive text summarization and summarization evaluation.
• We produce simplified versions of documents at both the syntactic and lexical levels. (Automatic text simplification)
• Our laboratory works in the areas of:
  • document analysis,
  • scientific summarization,
  • argument mining in scientific literature, and
  • information extraction from scientific texts. (Scientific text mining)
• We use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to aid machine translation between signed and spoken languages. (Sign Language processing) in:
  • text generation,
  • text simplification, and
  • natural language understanding