DFKI

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Company information
Address DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
Contact information Phone: +49 681 302 5151
Fax : +49 681 302 5341
Email : info@dfki.de
 

Corporate information
Foundation date 1988
Number of permanent employees > 100
Other locations Kaiserslautern, Germany
 

Company profile
Activity description

Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI, is active in the field of innovative information technologies as Germany's leading business-related research institute. It carries out research and development in the areas of language technology, knowledge management, intelligent visualization and simulation systems, deduction and multi-agent systems and intelligent user interfaces.

DFKI also houses the German Competence Center for Speech and Language Technology funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The Competence Center includes LT-World, the web-based information portal providing comprehensive information about all areas of speech and language technology; LT-Eval, the evaluation center of LT applications in real-life scenarios; and LT-Demo, the German demonstration center in which up-to-date LT results and products are presented to the press, to scientific developers and industrial users.

DFKI projects cover the whole range from application-oriented basic research to market and customer-oriented development of product functions. It was founded in 1988 as a non-profit corporation, with sites in Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken. At present it has some 180 employees and annual revenues of approximately 15 million euros.

Products and services description Contract research and development of product functions in the areas of language technology, knowledge management, intelligent visualization and simulation systems, deduction and multi-agent systems and intelligent user interfaces.
Main customers DaimlerChrysler, BSI, CCI, Schindler, Deutsche Telekom, SAP, BMW, Porsche, Otto, BASF, Audi, Siemens, Dekra, Bosch, VW, IBM
Market sectors/area Knowledge Management (Director: Prof. Andreas Dengel)

Intelligent Visualization and Simulation Systems (Director: Prof. Hans Hagen)

Deduction and Multiagent Systems (Director: Prof. Jörg Siekmann)

Language Technology (Director: Prof. Hans Uszkoreit)

Intelligent User Interfaces (Director: Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster)

Institute for Information Systems (IWi) (Director: Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer)

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