The Computational Linguistics Group at Oxford University consists of faculty members, researchers and students working on the scientific study of language from a computational perspective. We develop computational models of various linguistic phenomena, often with the aim of building practical natural language processing systems.

Our research interests span a broad range of topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Much of our recent work has combined traditional, knowledge-based approaches with statistical and machine learning methods. Some examples of our research interests are: statistical parsing and tagging, data-driven machine translation, lexical knowledge acquisition, wide-coverage semantic interpretation, large-scale grammar and lexicon development, learning domain theories, semantic representations for natural languages.

The Oxford CL Group includes members of the Computing Laboratory, the Centre for Linguistics and Philology, and the Phonetics Laboratory. We have research links with other groups in the University, including the Robotics Group in the Department of Engineering, and industrial links with the Information and Language Technology Group at the nearby Sharp Laboratories of Europe. We also have research links with other universities and labs in the UK and abroad, including Cambridge, DCU, Edinburgh, Essex, Groningen, Kings College London, NYU, Saarbruecken, Sheffield, Sussex, York, Sydney and the Palo Alto Research Center.

In March 2008 we hosted CLUK.