Benchmarking HLT progress in Europe Viggo Hansen CEO Zacco A/S
CST’s 10 year’s anniversary 29. January 2001: What we need is…. More resources to research and development More user friendly solutions communicating with the users in natural language More awareness of LT possibilities from private businesses More cooperation between private business and the research world …. not much has changed 11/01/2019
2003 Observations….. Most users don’t know that they are frequent users of LT tools! Language technology is widely used (i.e. spell and grammar checking) Most companies use LT only when it is embedded in other products The IT world has only limited knowledge - if any - of how LT could dramatically increase the user value of certain IT applications In general: limited interest for Language Technology Notes 11/01/2019
Who are we? IPR-consultancy Approx. 300 employees, turn-over: 60 Mio. € Establish, maintain and enforce/defend our customer’s Intellectual Property Rights (patents, trademarks, designs) IP Management Strategic use of Intellectual Property Rights Optimising the value of intellectual assets 11/01/2019
Zacco’s need for language technology Document management Indexing Retrieval Information extraction Information summarization Composition (letters and other patent documentation) Translations Patents (25 Mio. words or 100000 pages) Knowledge sharing/Knowledge management 11/01/2019
How we have been involved in/are using LT Document management Indexing – off the shelf tools Retrieval - simple tools Information extraction- simple tools Information summarization - Translations PaTrans Knowledge sharing/Knowledge management KMS, Budgeting Tool Composition (letters and other patent documentation) AutoPat 11/01/2019
The European claim format 11/01/2019
To-days appeal to management! Request that your IT people get acquainted with Human Language Technology Request that your IT solutions are “upgraded” with HLT tools/components when it is beneficial Develop and introduce a Language policy associated with a Language Technology policy in your company Increased quality of all written material Standardised terminology Improved document retrieval Etc. etc. 11/01/2019