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Welcome to Text Lab

Text Lab is an interactive platform designed to make advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools accessible to researchers and students at the University of Bern.

Developed by the Data Science Lab (DSL), Text Lab allows you to process documents, audio, and data without needing to write code.

🔒 Data Privacy & Security

Why use Text Lab?

One of the primary advantages of Text Lab is data sovereignty

  • Internal Processing: All processing happens entirely within the University of Bern's network infrastructure (UBELIX).
  • No Third Parties: Unlike commercial cloud services (like ChatGPT or Google Cloud), your data is never sent to external servers.
  • Sensitive Data: This makes Text Lab the ideal choice for working with sensitive research data, interviews, or confidential documents.

Available Tools

  • Transcription: Convert audio files to text with high accuracy, featuring a specialized model for Swiss German.
  • OCR (Optical Character Recognition): Extract text from scanned PDFs using state-of-the-art AI models.
  • Chat: Interact with local Large Language Models (LLMs) securely.
  • Data Visualization: Generate insights and plots from your data.

For processing large amount of data, please contact DSL.

Getting Support

If you encounter issues or have questions about using Text Lab, please contact the Data Science Lab: 📧 support.dsl@unibe.ch