Applied Knowledge Representation and Natural Language Understanding Lab

AKRaNLU is a research team of students and faculty interested in working on Natural Language Understanding problems. The group enhances technologies that benefit from full language understanding by combining the meaning extracted from Natural Language texts with the knowledge of the world, represented in conceptual forms (knowledge representation and reasoning).

Research Areas 

• Natural Language Understanding
• Knowledge Discovery and Representation
• Ontological Semantics Technology 

Current Application Areas 

• Phishing Detection
• Understanding implicit information in texts/default calculation
• Patient/Doctor interaction
• Computational humor
• Communication with people in smart residential communities and smart homes
• Chat analysis for law enforcement