The Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) program was funded by
DARPA starting in 2005 to develop technologies for automatic information extraction from multilingual newscasts, documents and other forms of communication. The program encompassed three main challenges: automatic
speech recognition,
machine translation, and
information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...
.
The focus of the program was on recognizing speech in
Mandarin
Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to:
Language
* Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
and
Arabic and translating it to English.
Teams led by
IBM,
BBN (led by
John Makhoul), and
SRI participated in the program.
Both
ICSI and
University of Washington participated in the program under the SRI team.
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DARPA projects