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Title: Language Technology in European Funding Programmes


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Language Technology in European Funding Programmes
  • Kimmo RossiDG Information society and MediaUnit
    E1 Language Technology, Machine Translation

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DG INFSO E in Luxembourg
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Introducing DG INFSO
  • DG Information Society and Media
  • 10 directorates
  • not only (research) funding agency policy
    making, market regulation
  • strategic policy framework i2010
  • most sizeable implementation task ICT programme
    of FP7 (9.1 B)

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Directorate E Digital Content cognitive
systems
  • located in Luxembourg
  • 7 units, 130 people
  • Main themes
  • Digital libraries
  • Public sector information
  • Language technology
  • Cognitive systems, robotics
  • Safer Internet
  • content production, (re-)use

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Unit E1 Language Technology, Machine Translation
  • Until 30/6/2008 Interaction Interfaces
  • New name implies more emphasis on (novel)
    language technology
  • Changed political, technologic and societal
    context
  • EU of 23 official languages
  • Breakthrough of data-driven MT
  • Community-based approach to content production
    and use (Web 2.0)

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Brief history (1993-2003)
  • MLIS-FP3-FP4-LE-ESPRIT
  • Dedicated Language Technology projects (Machine
    Translation, translation tools, terminology,
    standardisation, LRs)
  • some important seed technology (e.g. Translators
    Workbench, EBMT)
  • About 100 small projects (less than 1 MEUR)
  • FP5 (5th framework programme)
  • Applications of Language Technology (cars, mobile
    services, information retrieval, knowledge mgmt)
  • 90 projects, 130 MEUR funding
  • Mid-sized projects 0.7 2.5 MEUR

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From history to present
  • FP6 (6th framework programme)
  • 28 (20 with LT) projects, 120 MEUR
  • Larger projects (up to 15 MEUR)
  • Non-linguistic interaction about 12 projects
    TnD, TAI-CHI, ARTTS, SATIN,
  • Pure language technology TC-STAR, TALK,
    EUROMATRIX, SMART, LUNA,
  • Multimodal interaction CHIL, AMI, AMIDA,
  • FP7 (7th framework programme)
  • Challenge 2 cognitive systems, robotics,
    interaction
  • Objective 2.2 language-based interaction

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Current projects
  • EuroMatrix (www.euromatrix.net )
  • Intoducing linguistics into SMT
  • Factored SMT (treelet alignment, morphology)
  • Improvement by various means (combining engines
    etc.)
  • Inventory of MT systems and language resources
    for SMT
  • SMART (www.smart-project.eu )
  • Optimising SMT (algorithms, parameters, combining
    SMT engines)
  • Machine learning techniques (e.g. kernel methods)
  • towards adaptive MT
  • ITALK (italkproject.org )
  • iCub robot learns language by doing
  • integrates action, social and linguistic skills,
    cognitive development
  • language learning from scratch, for simple tasks
  • ROSSI (www.rossiproject.net )
  • how language development is linked to physical
    experience
  • sensori-motor grounding of human
    conceptualisation and language use
  • neurologic basis underlying the use of verbs and
    nouns
  • grounding of object affordances

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Current projects
  • ALEAR (www.alear.eu )
  • language evolution in robot populations
  • baseline language games (Luc Steels),
    recruitment theory
  • self-organisation of conceptual frameworks and
    communication systems
  • POETICON (www.poeticon.eu )
  • linking sensori-motor representations with
    linguistic ones
  • extending Lexicon into Praxicon (grammar and
    lexicon of action)
  • EMIME (www.emime.org )
  • unified modelling of speech recognition and
    synthesis
  • personalised speech synthesis (your voice
    speaking chinese)
  • reversibility of statistical modelling techniques
  • FlareNet (http//www.ilc.cnr.it/flarenet/ )
  • thematic network on Language Resources
  • what are Language Resources?
  • promotes interaction of LR stakeholders
  • inventory and roadmap for action
  • open for new members join now!

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Trends
  • New requirements new approaches
  • From Web 1.X to Web 2.0 we are all content
    producers
  • From static and uni-directional to dynamic,
    volatile, interactive, collaborative
  • Translations are needed on the fly
  • Are language technologies up to the task?
  • What happens to online content
  • Disappearing document
  • What is on the Internet? Who knows? Google?
  • Europa web site 6 million documents
  • Disappearing distinction between content and
    service
  • How to manage (automatically?) the multilingual
    online content
  • From service to self-service
  • Travelling, banking, house-buying
  • Need for language-literate systems
  • Multilingualism on the rise
  • In the EU (from 4 to 23 languages) and the
    global dimension

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Challenges
  • Machine translation new paradigms
  • adaptive, self-learning MT systems
  • MT that learns from its mistakes
  • learning through understanding and vice versa
  • Is there any future for RBMT?
  • Bringing scientific communities together
  • learning a common language among researchers
  • detecting common interest mutual benefit
  • SCs can learn from each other
  • Language resources
  • Exploit the hidden treasures (e.g. public sector
    resources)
  • Improve usability of existing resources
  • Identify and address gaps in coverage
  • Reusable, standardized, automated collection
    (e.g. from Web)
  • Towards automation harvesting LRs from the Web

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Funding opportunities ahead?
  • Language-based interaction priorities will be
    defined in next FP7 Work programme (covering call
    4)
  • http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc
  • Online multilingualism creation of a single
    European information space. Watch out for future
    actions in the ICT-PSP programme
  • http//ec.europa.eu/information_society/activitie
    s/ict_psp

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Thank You for your attention
  • Contact
  • Kimmo.Rossi_at_ec.europa.eu
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