Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI)

 
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    CFDA#

    12.910
     

    Funder Type

    Federal Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) - Information Innovation Office (I2O)

    Summary

    The goal of the Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) Program is to dramatically advance the state of computational linguistics and human language technology to enable rapid, low-cost development of capabilities for low-resource languages. These capabilities will be exercised to provide situational awareness based on information from any language, in support of emergent missions such as humanitarian assistance/disaster relief, peacekeeping, or infectious disease response.

    The LORELEI Program aims to change this state of affairs by targeting research and development of human language technology that eliminates the current reliance on huge, manually-translated, manually-transcribed, or manually-annotated corpora and turns instead to leveraging language universal resources, projecting from related-language resources, and fully  exploiting a broad range of language-specific resources. The technologies resulting from LORELEI research will be capable of supporting situational awareness based on low-resource foreign language sources within an extremely short time frame – starting as soon as 24 hours after a new language requirement emerges. With the understanding that even with perfect translation, there would still be too much material for analysts to use effectively, LORELEI research will not be focused solely on Machine Translation. While LORELEI technologies may include partial or full Automated Speech Recognition and/or Machine Translation, the overall goal will not be translating foreign language material into English, but providing situational awareness by identifying elements of information in foreign language and English sources, such as topics, names, events, sentiment, and relationships.

     

     

    History of Funding

    None is available.

    Additional Information

    Non-U.S. organizations and/or individuals may participate to the extent that such participants comply with any necessary nondisclosure agreements, security regulations, export control laws, and other governing statutes applicable under the circumstances.

    Contacts

    Boyan Onyshkevych, Program Manager

    Boyan Onyshkevych, Program Manager
    U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
    DARPA/I2O
    675 North Randolph Street
    Arlington, VA 22203
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants include:

    • Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCS
    • Government Entities 

    Deadline Details

    Abstracts must be submitted November 21, 2014, by 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST).

    Proposals must be submitted January 9, 2015, by 12:00 PM EST. 

    Award Details

    Multiple awards are expected. However, a limit for funding of individual awards has not been determined. Cost sharing/matching is not required.

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