--- title: "Research" description: "Tilde is a leader in multilingual AI research, specializing in machine translation, conversational AI, speech recognition, and text analysis." url: "https://tilde.ai/research/" date_modified: "2026-09-07T13:50:57+02:00" --- # Tilde AI Lab: Research and development on multilingual AI Tilde is a pivotal language technology research hub in the Baltic region with 30+ years of experience in European research projects and numerous local projects in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Our team of in-house researchers cooperate with leading European research centres to advance the state-of-the-art in areas of language technologies such as machine translation, conversational AI and dialogue systems, speech recognition and synthesis, and foundational language models. --- ## In-depth research expertise areas ### Machine translation We innovate in domain-adapted, adaptive, and term-aware neural machine translation, developing methods for robustness, mitigation of biases, and large language models. ### Conversational AI We focus on multilingual natural language understanding, semantic indexing, LLM-based retrieval-augmented generation, and personalisation. ### Speech technologies We research cascaded and end-to-end speech recognition and speech translation, multi-speaker and multilingual speech synthesis, real-time speech recognition, automatic subtitling and dubbing. ### Text analysis We develop multilingual named entity recognition, anonymisation and pseudonymisation, term recognition and extraction, morphological analysis, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging and other tools. ### Knowledge management We maintain the largest termbank in Europe - EuroTermBank, and develop term management and electronic dictionary tools. --- ## TildeOpen LLM now powers our machine translation The model has been fine-tuned for machine translation and is fully integrated into Tilde MT, delivering higher-quality results across 34 European languages. [Try it now](/translate/) --- ## Current research projects ![2b4a3704-712c-421d-9e64-d07931265ffc](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2b4a3704-712c-421d-9e64-d07931265ffc.png) ## CoRDS: Confident Data-Driven Decision Support [CoRDS](https://www.cords-dn.at) is a the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks programme project aiming to address gaps in AI -powered decision support tools by advancing the research on data-driven optimization methods and training a new generation of experts skilled in the combination of Operations Research (OR) and trustworthy Machine Learning (ML). CoRDS goes beyond the state-of-the-art data-driven optimization methods by proposing decision support frameworks that combine OR and ML methods and enable robust, transparent, and fair solutions that reflect user preferences and address complex, uncertain real-world scenarios. ![LLMs4EU_ar karogu](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/LLMs4EU_ar-karogu.png) ## Large Language Models for the European Unione The [LLMs4EU project](https://www.llms4eu.eu/) aims to preserve European linguistic and cultural diversity in the digital age through cooperation between economic and academic actors. The project brings together Europe’s leading players in the field of generative AI to ensure that European companies and especially SMEs have access to the tools and resources to become competitive regarding language technologies and especially Large Language Models (LLMs). The project aims to make LLMs and all the tools necessary for their exploitation in all EU languages available in open data by capitalizing on existing European programs and competencies. ![Linguarise](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Linguarise.jpg) ## Language Innovations: Nimble, Guided, User-friendly, Agile and Robust Solutions Eliminating Defence Challenge The LINGUARISE-DC project addresses the pressing need for advanced natural language processing in Europe’s defence sector. International missions face challenges such as linguistic diversity, limited training time, dependence on human interpreters, and security risks. LINGUARISE-DC seeks to transform language capabilities with an advanced human language technology (HLT) platform, designed to enhance European Union-led coalition missions and special operations. [All projects](/research/projects/) --- ## Latest publications ## 269 Raivis Skadiņš, Daiga Deksne, Andris Hohbergs, Rūdolfs Jaunzars, Andrejs Petrovs, Justīne Rūdule and Mārcis Pinnis. 2026. [Dataset and Baseline Implementation for Retrieval-Augmented Procurement Validation.](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-24804-6_50) *Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems,* vol. 1949. Springer. ## 268 Rinalds Vīksna and Mārcis Pinnis. 2026. Pseudonymisation for Morphologically Rich Languages. Proceedings of 29th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer. ## 267 Daiga Deksne (Tilde), Raivis Skadiņš (Tilde), Mārcis Pinnis (Tilde), Andris Hohbergs, Rūdolfs Jaunzars, Andrejs Petrovs and Justīne Rūdule. 2026. [Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Procurement Validation.](https://www.scitepress.org/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0014249400004052) *Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence,* 4048-4055. [All publications](/research/publication/) --- ## Our research team --- ![marcis-pinnis](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/research-marcis-pinnis.png) ## Mārcis Pinnis Dr sc. comp., Chief AI Officer ![Toms_Bergmanis](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Toms_Bergmanis.png) ## Toms Bergmanis Dr M. Inf., Researcher ![Martins_Kronis](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Martins_Kronis.png) ## Martins Kronis M. sc. comp., Researcher/Developer ![jurgita|_kapociute](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/research-jurgita.png) ## Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė Dr sc. comp., Researcher ![raivis-skadins](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/research-raivis-skadins.png) ## Raivis Skadiņš Dr sc. comp., CTO ![andrejs-vasiljevs](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/research-andrejs-vasiljevs.png) ## Andrejs Vasiļjevs Dr sc. comp., Co-founder, Member of the Board ![inguna-skadina](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/research-inguna-skadina.png) ## Inguna Skadiņa Dr sc. comp., Chief Scientific Officer ![matiss-rikters](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/research-matiss-rikters.png) ## Matīss Rikters Dr sc. comp., Researcher ![daiga-deksne](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/research-daiga-deksne.png) ## Daiga Deksne Dr philol., Mg. sc. comp., Mg. psych., Software Architect ![Rinalds-viksna](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/research-rinalds-viksna.png) ## Rinalds Vīksna Mg. sc. comp., Researcher ![Davis_Nicmanis](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Davis_Nicmanis.png) ## Dāvis Nicmanis Mg. sc. comp., Researcher/Developer ![Roberts_Rozis](https://tilde.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Roberts_Rozis.png) ## Roberts Rozis BSc. comp., Data Group Manager --- [All researchers](/research/team/)