All’s well that ends well! After a lengthy and certainly somewhat intense application period we received notice today that funding for our first ZIM grant application in the context of our ZIM Netzwork Morpheus has finally been approved. Funding has been granted for our ADAPI project aiming to collect and analyse spoken dialogue between doctor and patient in ophthalmological examinations. Over a period of two years LangTec will implement the semantic analysis of textualised dialogue segments as well as the integration of relevant clinical details into the hospital information system. We greatly look forward to collaboratig with our project partners Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT), Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) and the Klaus Heimann Eye Research Institute (KHERI) of the Sulzbach Eye Hospital.

Stubbornly resisting all discouragement from weather forecasts emitted by a pessimistic array of weather apps the unwavering LangTec team set out shortly after midday for this year’s summer team event. Roaming Hamburg’s water ways a bunch of intrepid seafarers meandered under speckled skies intermingled with sunny spells just to find a bunch of squeamish clouds unload their content in the very second the bold crew had stepped ashore again. The hungry bunch of travellers was exquisitely fed with plenties of meat, fish and vegetable until no wishes were left unfulfilled. And what a journey it was!

We are delighted to report the commission of a new development project for one of Europe’s leading service providers in Transport and Logistics. LangTec’s contribution to the overall project will be in the context of semantic search infrastructure. Scheduled until the end of this year, we will be providing full-stack development services for our client’s existing search solution.

On 21 and 22 March, another workshop was held for the Morpheus Network, this time in Saarbrücken. Morpheus has just been extended to go into a second round with its 24 partners from industry and research. Its objective is to process and utilise medical data using methods from artificial intelligence. This shall optimise therapies for patients, generate new products and help predict diseases better.

After eight years of sustainable growth it was finally time for a delicious Korean lunch again. We chucked ourselves into cabs and headed for LangTec’s preferred Korean restaurant near the Reeperbahn red-light district. The kitchen treated us opulently and no one had to go home hungry …

We are pleased to report the continuation and expansion of our consulting engagement in machine learning and text analytics with one of the leading e-commerce providers worldwide. Starting in March, we will have three senior experts working on semantically complex information extraction from various data streams.

Celebrating the finale of this beautiful summer, the team from LangTec team went climbing in the shrouds of the museum ship Rickmer Rickmers. Fantastic weather allowed us to admire a beautiful panoramic view over the harbour of Hamburg. After that, we enjoyed Indian-Ayurvedic cuisine in the restaurant Maharaja.