Specialty Research Unit in Natural Language Processing and Intelligent Information System Technology (NAiST)

Research in computational linguistics with application to automatic translation, speech recognition, information extraction, question-and-answer systems, and handwriting verification. Application areas include English-Thai translator assistant for agricultural information; I-KNOW project for extraction of unstructured Thai text from documents; development of a multimedia, multilingual document storage and retrieval system; document image management for paperwork reduction; extraction and translation of thesis abstracts for library thesis database; development of an intelligent Thai text retrieval search engine.