Language Technologies Institute


The Language Technologies Institute is a research institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and focuses on the area of language technologies.
The main scholarly research of the institute is on machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, information retrieval, parsing and information extraction.
Until 1996, the institute existed as the Center for Machine Translation that was established in 1986. Subsequently, from 1996 onwards, it started awarding degrees and the name was changed to The Language Technologies Institute.
The institute was founded by Professor Jaime Carbonell, who served as director until his death in February 2020.