Skip to main content

Center for Natural Language Processing (CENTAL)

pftplus |

Picture credit : Jacky Delorme

Technical and scientific expertise

The CENTAL technology platform provides expertise in the computer processing of textual data.

  • Technical expertise 
    Machine learning, neural networks and deep learning, development of linguistic resources, rule-based methods
  • Information extraction
    Named entity recognition, relationship extraction, sentiment analysis and opinion extraction, document classification and clustering, text readability and simplification
  • Information retrieval
    Domain-specific search engines, similarity engines, thesaurus and ontology development, query analysis and expansion
  • Training
    Training of experts in natural language processing (NLP), customised training, summer schools

Applications

  • NLP: health care, finance and law
  • Social media exploitation
  • Megadata analysis

Services available to

  • UCLouvain students and researchers
  • Non-UCLouvain parties

The latest news

  • 11 March 2025
    This summer, learn how to process text data using artificial intelligence techniques!
    The SMCS and CENTAL invite you to a Summer School on Text Mining in Python from July 7 to 11 on the Louvain-la-Neuve campus.