Our department is crucially involved in several national and international research projects, currently including:

- The NFR-funded projects LOGON (machine translation, together with the universities of Oslo and Bergen) and BRAGE (spoken dialogue systems)

- The NUFU-funded project "Computational Lexicography, Typology and Adult Literacy" (together with the University of Ghana).

- National assessment of writing across the curriculum. This is a national project with partners in Stavanger and Oslo and an international network

- Several projects on academic communication

- "Språkmøter", a project on language contact between native and non-native speakers of Norwegian

- The multidisciplinary project Likestilling - en grense rnellorn 'oss ' og 'dem '? (Gender
equality - a boundary between 'us' and 'them'?) studies how the norm of gender equality affects processes of ethnic integration in Norwegian working life.

Research groups:

- The reserach group linglab@ntnu, for lingware development, including the Norwegian computational grammar Norsource and the language documentation tool TypeCraft?

- The Research Group on Health Communication

Commercial affiliation:

- LingIT, a private company in language technology that has developed out of research at our department.

International Agreements and Networks:

- International cooperation institutions include Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin in the US, NTT, Kyoto, Japan, University of Hyderabad, India, University of Ghana, Ghana, Univ. of Addis Abeba and Univ. of Awassa, Ethiopia, Makerere University, Uganda; and in Europe, University of Cambridge, UK, University of Saarbrücken, University of Gottingen and University of Bremen, Germany, University of Ziirich, Switzerland, University of Utrecht, Holland.

- Cooperation and working contacts in Scandinavia includes the universities of Joensuu (Finland), Uppsala, Göteborg (Sweden), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

- LCS has formal agreements with Jyväskylä University (Finland), Linköping University (Sweden) and The Southern Danish University. We host an affiliate professor from Linköping and are working towards establishing interdepartmental agreements with Saarbriicken (Germany) and Gothenburg (Sweden)

- The Nordic network VISPP - Variation in Speech Production and Speech Perception

- A Marie Curie Research Training Network is planned (main activities in Cambridge and Sheffield, UK)