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Welcome to the Computing Research Laboratory (CRL) web site. CRL, at New Mexico State University, is a non-profit, self-supporting research enterprise committed to basic research and software development in advanced computing applications. Administratively, CRL is a research department in NMSU's Physical Science Laboratory(PSL). CRL was established in 1983 by the New Mexico Legislature "to be a center of excellence in advanced computing applications and to enhance the state's leadership in science and technology." CRL's basic research efforts are concentrated on practically all extant approaches to multilingual processing of natural language texts. Fields of study that contribute to this endeavor and are thus among the core areas of research at CRL are:

Artificial intelligence
Computational linguistics
Human-computer interaction

Applications include a variety of configurations and language pair combinations of:

  • Machine translation
  • Information extraction
  • Information retrieval
  • Text summarization
  • Knowledge acquisition
  • Computer-assisted authoring
  • Teaching and learning
  • Translator workstation systems

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CRL is also pursuing research and development in speech processing, multiagent environments and architectures, multimedia and custom solutions for information technology needs and requirements of government and business organizations.
Browse this web site for more information about CRL, its research and its staff.
Last Modified: February 25, 2003