There are several research centers where we can find more information about Human Language Technologies and we can get to know what is going on this field:

• The National Centre for Language Technology, which is directed by the professor Josef Van Genabith, points out in its web page that it conducts research into the processing of human language by computers, such as speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, human-computer interfaces, information retrieval and extraction, the teaching and learning of languages using computers and software localisation and globalisation. Research in Human Language Technology (HLT) is interdisciplinary and includes Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). HLT has substancial economic implications ans potential. The centre carries out basic research and develops applications. This centre has several research areas such as CALL Computer Assisted Language Learning, Corpus Linguistics, Machine Translation and Transaltion Technology, Treebank-Based Unification Grammar Acquisition, Semantics, Speech Technology, Multilingual Information Retrieval/Exatraction, Language Evolution. The National Centre for Language Technology has also several publications where we include books, journal articles, conference papers, etc.
• The Language Tehnology Documentation Centre in Finland is being maintained by the Department of General Linguistics in the University of Helsinki. The Nordic language technology documentation project was financed partly by the Nordic Language Technology Research Program administered by NorFA, which later became NordForsk. They also cooperate via NorDokNet with similar sites in Denmark, Norway, Sweeden and Iceland.
• The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) has a group which focuses on Language Technology (LT) since its inception in 1984. This group conducts research in modelling and processing human languages, especially for German. This includes constructing linguistic resources (such as lexicons, grammars, discourse models), processing algorithms (such as morphological components, parsers, generators, speech sythesizers, discourse processing components), and application prototypes (such as natural language interfaces, advisory systems and concept-to-speech systems). The Language Technology Group at OFAI is a member at the EU’s European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies (ELSNET). In the area of language and speech processing they are conducting both basic and applied research. They develop linguistic resources and precesses as well as application prototypes. Most of their work concentrates on the German Language. The Language Technology Group at OFAI is involved in a number of projects in basci and applied research. On the European level, the group acts as a partner in projects funded by the EC, modtly in the Human Language Technologies/Language Engineering sector. On a national level, projects are funded mainly by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) and the FFF/ITF. In some of the projects, cooperation exist with Austrian University department and companies.
• The Edinburgh Language Technology Group (LTG) is a research and developmet group that has been working in the area of natural language engineering since the early 1990s. The LTG was originally established as a part of the Human Communication Research Centre, and is now based in the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems of the Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, one of the largest communities of natural language processing specialists in Europe. The LTG’s work is application oriented: they focus on building practical solutions to real problems in the text processing. They have worked in all areas of large-volume text handling, from text annotation through markup architectures and from informations extraction to automatic or computer-assited generation of text. The Language Technology Group conducts research and development in a number of areas. Some of the LTG projects are listed at its web page.       

Resources:

*Language Technology Documentation Centre in Finland (FiLT). Retrieved 13:37, March 15, 2008, from http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/filt/info/index-en.shtml

*Language Technology Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI). Retrieved 13:34, March 15, 2008, from http://www.ofai.at/research/nlu/

*National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT). Retrieved 11:52, March 15, 2008, from http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/index.html

*The Edinburgh Language Technology Group (LTG). Retrieved 13:15, March 15, 2008, from http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/