The Chair of Applied Computational Linguistics (ACoLi) of the University of Augsburg addresses the whole range of computational linguistics and speech technology, applied to the german language as well as european and outer european languages.

Within the frame of teaching, our emphasis is on the one hand to continue the studies of students of various humanities regard of informational technology, and on the other hand, to impart basic computational linguistic knowledge to students of computational sciences.

In research, we focus on the following domains:

1. Natural Language Understanding: Language technological processing of natural semantics and pragmatics,
2. Knowledge graphs for representation and processing of knowledge,
3. Linguistic Data Science: To use web standards and graph technology for language technology and linguistics,
4. Digital Humanities: To apply these technologies in kooperation with academic an non-university partners

Selected contents are:

• Development of web standards and Best Practices within the frame of the W3C Community  Groups Ontology-Lexica (OntoLex) and  Linked Data for Language Technology (LD4LT)
• Participation in Cost Actions NexusLinguarum - European Network for Web-Centred Linguistic Data Science (CA18209, 2019-2024) and  UniDive - Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology (CA21167, 2022-2026)
• Language technological analysis of historical languages in collaboration with different technical partners, i.e. to the  Old Lithuanian, Middle High German, medieval Romance languages or the  Sumerian.
• Industry cooperations in former research e.g. in the field of  Multilingualism and the automated summary and generation of scientific texts.