THIRD MISSION

Third Mission is an institutional mission of universities and research institutions, along with the traditional missions of teaching and research activities (ANVUR’s Manual for the Evaluation of the Third Mission).

ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) defines third mission as “propensity of structures to be open towards the socio-economic context through the exploitation and knowledge transfer“.

Research and development activities are crucial to generate more employment, welfare and social cohesion.

The Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” promotes the advancement of scientific research activities and technology transfer to meet the needs of citizens and foster the competitiveness of the production system.

Innovation in the field of Computational Linguistics contributes to address crucial challenges for the strategic areas of society, in line with:

Public engagement

CNR-ILC carries out scientific dissemination activities with educational, cultural and social development impact to domain experts as well as to the world of school and the general public.

Public events

Publications for external audience

Activities in collaboration with universities and training institutions

Dissemination of scientific research

Technology transfer and research exploitation

CNR-ILC collaborates with companies through technological or consulting services, collaborative research activities, joint laboratories, participation in spin offs and Research and Innovation regional funded projects in collaboration with local companies.

For the exploitation of research results and technology transfer, the Institute has had and still has numerous collaborations with public authorities, SMEs and large Italian and international industries.

By collaborating with specialists from other disciplines, the Institute has developed innovative methods and technologies that can be applied in different fields, for example:

  • Public Administration and Third Sector;
  • Education and Training;
  • Health;
  • Cultural Heritage and Tourism.

Technology transfer involves skills acquired in multiple fields of Computational Linguistics, as well as linguistic resources and technologies that have been integrated into application products for the realisation of advanced capabilities for analysing and processing even large and evolving document bases.

Spin-off

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Talia Srl, spin-off of the Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” and GruppoMETA, develops and delivers tools for text processing and knowledge extraction based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques.

Talia offers specialised solutions and services in morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, name entity recognition, meaningful knowledge extraction, classification, clustering, ontology learning, ontology population and sentiment analysis in Saas (software as a service) mode.

Other activities