Success in this endeavor would have an immediate affect on the speed of knowledge transfer. It would be a basic enabling device.
DARPA in December awarded BBN Technologies a $5.6 million contract to develop an automated translation system for handheld, laptop or desktop computers.And last January DARPA awarded BBN a $16 million contract extension of its Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) program. GALE is intended to develop and apply software technologies to transcribe speech, translate both speech and text, and distill large volumes of speech and text in multiple languages, with over 90% accuracy by the end of the program. Such a capability would help U.S. analysts recognize critical information in foreign languages quickly so they could act on it in a timely fashion.
With this latest contract award, BBN will continue to work in Arabic from both speech and text sources to meet increasingly steep accuracy goals, BBN said.For DARPA the goal is to build a prototype system that quickly provides relevant, distilled, actionable information to military commands and personnel by converting foreign language text images into English transcripts automatically (without the use of linguists and analysts) and with high accuracy, the agency said in a release.
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