The Inkpot Natural Language Research Group is made up of faculty, staff, and students engaged in research about Computational Linguistics in various areas of application, including health informatics, biomedical information extraction, and scientific digital libraries. Inkpot developed out of the original HealthDoc Project (1994-1999) and is the academic side of Inkpot Software Inc., the spin-off company from HealthDoc.

In academic research, Inkpot aims to combine discourse-based and statistical methods from Computational Linguistics to develop robust and reusable theories, methods, and software tools for Natural Language applications. In industrial collaborations, Inkpot is applying its technology to develop commercial Web-based systems for producing on-demand personalized health information.