Linguatec and Chinese Academy of Sciences Agree on Strategic Cooperation

MUNICH, Germany - Linguatec and the Chinese Academy of Sciences reached an agreement on strategic cooperation. The goal is joint research and development of new language technology solutions to make closer ties between Europe and China possible.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences is an institution in the People's Republic of China. An independent organization, it specializes in the natural sciences and high technology and includes about 100 research organizations. One of these is the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) in Peking. 

"Linguatec is a highly valued partner for us in the further development of multilingual language technology applications," Dr. Liu Qun, professor at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, says."This cooperation makes it possible to synergetically combine our academic and practical strengths and competences. Our goal is to develop innovative high end solutions as a first step and as an essential second step to introduce them into industry and business."