Language technologies (NLU)
Competence in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is fundamental to fully leverage AI. NLU is the technology that gives AI the ability to understand human language, bridging the gap between human and machine. It unlocks the value in unstructured data and forms the basis for meaningful interaction and automation.
NLU is one of AI Sweden's strategic initiatives, and the NLU team is one of Europe's leading research and development environments for large language models (LLMs) and their application. The NLU team is instrumental in guiding advancements in language technology, thereby reinforcing Swedish strategic interests and digital sovereignty.
What are language technologies?
Language technologies is a collective term for applications that can analyze, produce, modify, or respond to human text and speech. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a core component within AI that enables machine understanding and machine representation of natural (human) language. With the help of language technology, patterns and insights from unstructured data can be transformed into manageable, useful information, allowing us to make data-driven and well-informed decisions. For Sweden to benefit from the rapid developments in the field of language technology, language models need to be trained on datasets for Swedish and minority languages spoken in Sweden.
The AI Sweden NLU team is involved in several EU-funded projects, such as OpenEuroLLM, EuroLinga-GPT, Deploy AI, and TrustLLM.
AI Sweden's focus in language technology research
Since 2021, the NLU team at AI Sweden has been involved in a range of different language technology research projects, with GPT-SW3 and OpenEuroLLM being our most well-known examples of what projects in this area can generate.
Through participation in EU-funded projects, AI Sweden strengthens the Swedish, as well as the European, ecosystem by collaborating with various research institutes, organizations, and universities across Europe.
Building open models enables transparency and helps democratize a resource-intensive technology for citizens in Sweden and Europe. In a global world with increasing tensions and rapid changes, it is important that Sweden can maintain a high technical standard and act independently. By building open language models in Swedish, the NLU team contributes to strengthening Sweden's digital sovereignty.
Latest news from the NLU team
OpenEuroLLM secures strategic access to multiple supercomputers: A milestone for European language models
Unique language model expertise strengthens Swedish and European independence
Sustainable data strategies for natural language understanding
Nina Ökvist appointed new Head of NLU at AI Sweden
AI Sweden in collaboration with OpenAI: Evaluating unique open models
Svea's third phase almost fully subscribed
New models and features improve Svea
AI Sweden contributes to the development of open LLMs for transparent AI in Europe
Ongoing projects
A shared digital assistant for the public sector
DeployAI
EuroLingua-GPT
FormAI
Next generation infrastructure
OpenEuroLLM
TrustLLM
Past projects
Data Readiness Lab
GPT-SW3
GPT-SW3 validation project
Interdisciplinary expert pool for NLU
Language Models for Swedish Authorities
Multimodal language model
SuperLim
Swedish Language Data Lab
Swedish Medical Language Data Lab
Meet the team
Amelia Högberg
Felix Stollenwerk
NLU updates
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NLP Seminar Series
The NLP Seminar Series was a bi-weekly forum for people who work with or are interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and language technologies. While we don't have any upcoming seminars planned, you can head over to our YouTube channel to watch the recordings.
The seminars were organized by RISE NLP group and AI Sweden.
