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1 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 Language Technology in European Funding Programmes Kimmo Rossi DG Information society and Media Unit E1 – Language Technology, Machine Translation

2 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 DG INFSO E in Luxembourg

3 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 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)

4 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 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

5 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 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)

6 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 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

7 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 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

8 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 Current projects EuroMatrix (www.euromatrix.net )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 )www.smart-project.eu –Optimising SMT (algorithms, parameters, combining SMT engines) –Machine learning techniques (e.g. kernel methods) –towards adaptive MT ITALK (italkproject.org )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 )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

9 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 Current projects ALEAR (www.alear.eu )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 )www.poeticon.eu –linking sensori-motor representations with linguistic ones –extending Lexicon into Praxicon (grammar and lexicon of action) EMIME (www.emime.org )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/ ) 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!

10 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 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 –Online content becomes more multilingual –English gains ground – but mother tongues remain

11 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 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

12 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 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_socie ty/activities/ict_psp

13 INFSO-E1 12/09/2008 Thank You for your attention Contact: Kimmo.Rossi@ec.europa.eu


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