The Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) (Greek: Ινστιτούτο Επεξεργασίας του Λόγου, ΙΕΛ) is an Athens based, Greek non-profit private foundation focusing on applied research in various areas mainly related to language technology.
ILSP is the oldest institute of Athena Research & Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Science Technologies.
ILSP aims to be a pole of attraction for the language industry, which is growing both in Greece and in the rest of Europe, thus contributing to the expansion of activities in this particularly important area of current IT.
The main areas that form ILSP's research agenda are:[7] ILSP carries out applied research in man-machine interfaces, machine learning, speech processing, text processing, theoretical and computational linguistics, and language learning technologies.
The institute's mission is mainly to support research by successfully combining the basic and applied perspectives and pursue complementary collaborations in the areas of interest, while maintaining a societal and industrial relevance.