Big congratulations to Lang.Tec on winning the public tender of a large German tourism project! Part of the project will involve improving and extending an open data Knowledge Graph. The additional information will be obtained by extraction from unstructured description texts on various entities such as hotels, events, restaurants, tours and others.

To accomplish this, Lang.Tec will employ state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract touristically relevant information and add it in structured form to the Knowledge Graph. This will permit the associated chatbot to access a wealth of additional structured information, which will help it provide more useful and accurate answers to users.

In addition to improving the Knowledge Graph, Lang.Tec will also develop a machine-learning-based module to answer difficult user questions. This module will support the chatbot in understanding context and intent of users’ questions, thus enabling it to provide more relevant and helpful answers for hard questions.

Overall, Lang.Tec’s work on the German Touristic project will help improve the data-driven capabilities of the chatbot, making it a more valuable resource for travellers and tourism professionals in Germany. We very much look forward to experiencing the positive impact this will have on the chatbot user experience.

In November, our new working student Kilian joined the LangTec-Team!

At LangTec, Kilian has the opportunity to apply and further develop the knowledge he is gaining being enrolled in the master’s degree ‘Data Science & Artificial Intelligence’ at the University of Applied Sciences in Wedel. Currently, in the context of a project in which we are developing training materials for an adult education program and next year also in the context of the master thesis.

We look forward to working with you and wish you a good start at LangTec!

We are delighted to welcome our new colleague Alicia to the LangTec-team. Alicia holds a PhD in computational linguistics and brings a strong background in Arab studies and Digital Humanities to the table. Over the past ten years she more and more gravitated towards software engineering. With her many years of applied experience in a range of different project contexts Alicia now joins our software development team in a senior role.

We are delighted to announce the start of a new project with a well-known major social network. Its multilingual ontology, which is a central element in many of their internal services, has been curated manually so far and has grown continually over the years. Now it is time for a critical analysis of the status quo of this knowledge representation and to develop suggestions for the future curation and further development of said ontology. In this LangTec assists with its expertise in ontologies, knowledge graphs, computational linguistics and language technology.

We visited the client on-site for the official project kick-off and were warmly welcomed despite some rather windy autumn weather outside.

In cooperation with the financial services company Tecis and the insurance company die Continentale, LangTec now offers its employees the opportunity to take out a company pension scheme. In addition to the tax savings resulting from the deferred compensation, LangTec adds a contribution on top, which is significantly higher than the statutory mandatory contribution, resulting in an attractive retirement provision offer! We thank you for your cooperation!

To optimise processes in customer communication, LangTec is further expanding the portal of a provider from the renewable energy sector. With expert knowledge in report generation, software development and software architecture, LangTec is developing new functions in the self-service areas of the Python-based customer portals.

Since the beginning of this year, LangTec has been supporting a football A-youth team of the Eimsbütteler Turnverband (ETV) as an official sponsor. Under their coach Daniel, a diverse group of football-loving youths has become a real team over the years, characterised equally by playfulness and fighting spirit. We are very pleased to be able to accompany and support this sporting growth.

The London-based Data Magazine listed LangTec as one of the 30 most innovative machine learning start ups and companies in Hamburg!

The media company’s goal and mission is clear: They aim to “promote the greatest bleeding edge companies, businesses and innovations on the global stage”.

We appreciated discovering this article in our coffee break. Thank you @DataMagazine!

You can find the complete list of companies here.

After two years of pandemic, life is starting again and Hamburg is also looking forward to numerous visitors again. This week is no exception: the Online Marketing Rockstars Festival – OMR for short – is taking place at the Hamburg exhibition grounds, and that’s just around the corner from our office.

Hey OMR!!! Do you know this???

At LangTec we are always happy to hear about your questions, wishes or ideas. Just drop by or drop us a line here!

For the second time running LangTec receives the certification ‘Innovative by Research’ from Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Founders’ Union for the German Economy). This certification recognises enterprises that dedicate a substantial part of their business activity to research and development. Stifterverband is a registered non-profit organisation with focus on education, science and innovation.