Welcome to the Proteus Project

The Proteus Project members are simultaneously scientists and engineers. We are driven by the quest for knowledge, but we also love to build things that work (that nobody else has built before). Consequently, our devotions cover the range from the most basic research to immediately useful resources and applications. The diversity of the project members is reflected in the diversity of our work styles: Some of us prefer to encode linguistic knowledge from introspection; others prefer to build systems that can learn for themselves.

We focus on the application areas of Information Extraction and Machine Translation. This choice of emphasis constantly broadens our horizons, because almost any advance in NLP may lead to better solutions for these problems. Therefore, we like to pay attention to the whole field of NLP, as well as a number of related fields, such as machine learning, linguistics, and software engineering.