The KBC Research Foundation Pvt Ltd (called as KBCRF) was established in the year 1999 at Chennai. The KBCRF is formed to foster high quality research in the fields of Information sciences (focussed on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL)) and Life Sciences. Towards this goal an MOU between KBCRF and Anna University was made to establish a world class research organization, AU-KBC Research Centre.