Human Communication Research Centre Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow John Lee (Deputy Director, Edinburgh)

Edinburgh Connections Architecture HCRC CISA AIAI Informatics Civil Engineering Geography

Architecture F Communication in collaborative design F Non-Place F Engineering (construction)

Potted history F Set up by ESRC in 1989 as an IRC for 10 years F Focus on real world communication and dialogue F Established across two main University sites F Rapid large-scale success in attracting external grant funding F Emerging areas of specialisation in Language Technology and Multimedia Communications F Continues as independent self-funding Centre

What HCRC does Mission: Applications of basic scientific understanding in creation of effective, reliable and useful systems: safety-critical systems multimedia interfaces and environments computer-based training and instruction automated document indexing, retrieval, summarisation, generation

Theory, Experiment, Modelling TeleconferencingDocumentInformationMultimedia classificationextractionsystems Large-volumeIntelligentGraphical Text-to-speech text processing explanation Spoken dialogue systems Language front-ends Text generation Intonation and speech synthesis Team communication Dialogue Group Graphics and Language Group HCRC Scientific Organisation Mechanisms for Language Processing Group Analysis,Application, Evaluation Language Technology Group Multimedia Communications Group

Language processing F Language generation and language production F Task-driven human language comprehension F Hybrid systems and natural computation F Intelligent Information Interfaces F Integration of language and speech technology F Technology mediated collaboration F Document management