About

JIKD represents a collaboration more than 20 faculty members from at least seven diverse research groups which include:

• University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC):


• Institute for Language and Information Technologies (ILIT) -- Combines basic research in language processing by computers with the development of practical information technology applications and knowledge acquisition tools.
• University of Maryland at College park:


• Communication and Signal Processing Laboratory (CSPL) -- Researching issues regarding communications, networking, and signal and image processing.
• Computational Linguistics & Information Processing (CLIP) -- CLIP consists of two main entities: The Natural Language Group and the Database Group. The natural language group focuses on several areas of broadscale multilingual processing, e.g., machine translation, scalable translingual document detection, and cross-language information retrieval. The database group focuses on architectures for wide area computation with heterogeneous information servers, e.g., scientific discovery from biomolecular data sources.
• Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) -- Conducts research on advanced user interfaces and their development processes. Interdisciplinary research teams study the entire technology development life-cycle which includes the initial technology design, implementation issues, and user performance evaluation.
• Language and Media Processing Laboratory (LAMP) -- The CLIP lab reference (above) describes the language group efforts. The media analysis group provides tools and techniques for accessing large heterogeneous databases of multimedia information objects.
• Laboratory for Integrated Knowledge Systems (LINKS) -- Focuses on integrating diverse, heterogeneous data sources and reasoning paradigms which support intelligent decision making in a wide variety of application areas.
• Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory Semantic Web Agents Project (MINDSWAP) -- Defines a research group working on Semantic Web technologies including ontologies, reasoning, web services, and application development.
• Speech Communication Laboratory (SCL) -- Combines engineering and speech science to address speech communication issues. Research focuses include developing a phonetic feature based speech recognition system, enhancing the speech quality and intelligibility for artificial larynx users, articulatory and acoustic modeling, speech synthesis and speech enhancement tools.