<s>
The	O
Language	B-General_Concept
Technologies	I-General_Concept
Institute	I-General_Concept
(	O
LTI	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
research	O
institute	O
at	O
Carnegie	O
Mellon	O
University	O
in	O
Pittsburgh	O
,	O
Pennsylvania	O
,	O
United	O
States	O
,	O
and	O
focuses	O
on	O
the	O
area	O
of	O
language	B-Application
technologies	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
institute	O
is	O
home	O
to	O
33	O
faculty	O
with	O
the	O
primary	O
scholarly	O
research	O
of	O
the	O
institute	O
focused	O
on	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
,	O
speech	B-Application
recognition	I-Application
,	O
speech	B-Application
synthesis	I-Application
,	O
information	B-Library
retrieval	I-Library
,	O
parsing	B-Language
,	O
information	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
multimodal	B-Application
machine	I-Application
learning	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Until	O
1996	O
,	O
the	O
institute	O
existed	O
as	O
the	O
Center	O
for	O
Machine	B-Application
Translation	I-Application
,	O
which	O
was	O
established	O
in	O
1986	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Subsequently	O
,	O
from	O
1996	O
onwards	O
,	O
it	O
started	O
awarding	O
degrees	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
name	O
was	O
changed	O
to	O
The	O
Language	B-General_Concept
Technologies	I-General_Concept
Institute	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Master	O
of	O
Language	B-Application
Technologies	I-Application
(	O
MLT	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
research-focused	O
masters	O
in	O
which	O
students	O
take	O
all	O
the	O
same	O
classes	O
as	O
Ph.D.	O
students	O
,	O
and	O
are	O
frequently	O
funded	O
through	O
sponsored	O
research	O
projects	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MLT	O
serves	O
as	O
a	O
bridging	O
masters	O
for	O
students	O
from	O
non-traditional	O
backgrounds	O
or	O
with	O
limited	O
research	O
experience	O
in	O
language	B-Application
technologies	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Notable	O
faculty	O
include	O
Alan	O
W	O
Black	O
(	O
Speech	O
)	O
,	O
Louis-Philippe	O
Morency	O
(	O
Multimodal	B-Application
Machine	I-Application
Learning	I-Application
)	O
,	O
Scott	O
Fahlman	O
(	O
Knowledge	O
Representation	O
)	O
,	O
</s>
<s>
(	O
Machine	B-Application
Translation	I-Application
)	O
,	O
Justine	O
Cassell	O
,	O
Eduard	O
Hovy	O
,	O
Eric	O
Nyberg	O
,	O
and	O
Eric	O
Xing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Co-founded	O
by	O
LTI	O
faculty	O
member	O
Alon	O
Lavie	O
in	O
2009	O
,	O
Safaba	O
was	O
acquired	O
in	O
2015	O
by	O
Amazon	B-Application
and	O
incorporated	O
into	O
the	O
company	O
's	O
Pittsburgh	O
offices	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Once	O
incorporated	O
into	O
Amazon	B-Application
's	O
corporate	O
structure	O
,	O
the	O
Safaba	O
team	O
became	O
known	O
as	O
the	O
Amazon	B-Application
Machine	B-Application
Translation	I-Application
R&D	O
Group	O
,	O
and	O
would	O
go	O
on	O
to	O
contribute	O
to	O
the	O
development	O
of	O
Amazon	B-Application
Alexa	I-Application
.	O
</s>
