University of Udine - Knowledge-based systems (diagnosis, temporal reasoning, modeling of physical systems, qualitative reasoning) and human-computer interaction (desktop virtual reality, information visualization, 3d, multimedia and multimodal interf...
University of Sussex at Brighton - Natural language processing, stochastic lexicalized grammars, shallow parsing and knowledge extraction, parsing disambiguation and efficiency, parser evaluation, large-scale grammar and lexicon development, linguisti...
University of Bologna - Content-based retrieval, data models, query languages, similarity queries, fuzzy retrieval, the M-tree, signature files, grid files, schema-based navigation, structures on the web.