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HLT Industry in Flanders

HLT Industry in Flanders. Peter Spyns Vlaamse overheid Departement Economie, Wetenschap en Innovatie. Overview. NTU HLT pages A bit of nostalgia Some companies (randomly listed) IBBT What do companies want for a future HLT R&D programme ?.

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HLT Industry in Flanders

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  1. HLT Industry in Flanders Peter Spyns Vlaamse overheid Departement Economie, Wetenschap en Innovatie

  2. Overview • NTU HLT pages • A bit of nostalgia • Some companies (randomly listed) • IBBT • What do companies want for a future HLT R&D programme ?

  3. http://taalunieversum.org/taal/technologie/organisaties/

  4. Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products • 1987 – 2001, • headquarters in Ieper • world wide biggest HLT company • Many platforms: telephony, desktop, embedded, game consoles, • Wide range of languages: including Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Dutch, Mandarin Chinese, … • Broad range of technologies and solutions: human and machine translation, spell checker, indexing, lemmatiser, information retrieval, Kurzweil reader, several ASR, dictation and TTS engines, …

  5. Past Glory • Contracts with Microsoft • used in the "Speech" option in the control panel of Microsoft Windows XP (abbreviated as LH) • Microsoft Office uses certain elements of a grammar checker (cf. Help Info) • Acquired: • Best Speech, Dragon Systems, Dictaphone, OmniMed, Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inso, Wordperfect/Novell Antwerpen, Mendez Translation, GMS translation, ISI Pittsburg, Elan Speech, … • Ended up bankrupt • Flanders Language Valley • Nostalgy: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.lhs.com

  6. International companies in Flanders • Nuance International Communications (Gent – Merelbeke) • took over of L&H Ieper en Wemmel • (embedded) ASR, TTS (RealSpeak) and dialogue • Dictation (DragonDictate) • again, world wide biggest HLT company • G2Speech (Leuven) • medical and legal dictation and work flow applications • Aktor knowledge technology (Thomson Reuters) • knowledge management and technology • Advanced Bionics (Antwerpen) • hearing impaired, cochlear implants

  7. Flemish International companies • Language and Computing (1998 - ) • (medical) language processing • (medical) knowledge engineering and ontologies • information extraction • Xplanation Language Services (1991 - • controlled language, terminology • machine translation and work flow • Voxtron (1994 - • contact center applications (telephony, email, fax, …) • TeleAtlas (1988 – 2007 [now Tomtom]) • digital maps • location based services

  8. Flemish companies • Prompt!Spraaktoepassingen (Brussel – Dilbeek) • speech applications • dialogue flow and interaction consultancy • Sensotec (Brugge – Varsenare) • Tools for visually impaired people • Natlanco [Natlantech] (Gent) • Language technology (parsers) • Indie Group – Televic (Izegem, Kortrijk) • education, e-health, logistics, transport applications, gaming • i.Know (Diepenbeek) • knowledge engineering • BLCC (Kortrijk, Leuven) • E-learning, language tests • Technologie en Integratie • HLT for the impaired

  9. Flemish companies • Crossminder • information retrieval and extraction • Amplexor (Leuven – Holsbeek) • portals, search technology, content management • ICMS (Leuven – Boortmeerbeek) • intelligent content management systems • TriSoft (Mechelen) • technical communicatgion (translation, personalisation) • Explio (Gent – Sint Denijs Westrem) • E-learning • CommArt International (Diepenbeek) • E-(language) learning • Mentoring Systems (Brugge – Oostkamp)

  10. companies located in Belgium • Acapela (Mons) • ASR, TTS • Ubicall (Mons) • telephony based speech applications • VoiceInsight (Brussels) • ASR, TTS • DB-Scape (Waterloo) • Ring ring company – TellMe • VXML portal • Zetes (Brussel) • speech for voice picking applications • SAP – Business Objects (Brussel) [part of former L&H Antwerp] • content management (indexing, retrieval, search) • other part now part of Empolis – Bertelsmann - Antwerpen) • Quentris (Brussel) • call centre applications

  11. «silent» HLT integrators/users • Toyota Motors Europe • [top secret] • Atlas Copco • internal training division • Thomson Compumark (Antwerpen) • trade mark search • EMC Corporation (Zaventem) • document management • Stepstone (Zaventem) • profile matching • Agfa Healthcare (Gent – Sint Martens Latem) • information retrieval, knowledge mining

  12. Translation companies • Lionbridge (Brussel) (ex-Mendez, ex-L&H, ex-Bown) • SDL Internation (Leuven) • LanguageWeaver (Leuven) • Cross Language (Gent)

  13. Institute for Broad Band Technology • strategic research centre (virtual) (Gent) • yearly budget: +/- 38 M € (for 5 years) • topics: [www.ibbt.be] • E-health, E-government, new media, mobility and logistics, basic ICT infrastructure and medical image processing • excellent research on an international level • selected research groups • common technology platform • demand driven research agenda • usability test center

  14. Screenshots Online Delphi bevraging R1 N=155 R2 N=70 (R4=analyse) R3 N=63

  15. Deelnemers profielen Panelleden konden meerdere alternatieven per onderwerp kiezen

  16. Economic/societal need/desirability [H10: 1->3 government policy] H1: 1 -> 5 new (multi-)media, (serious) gaming and leisure H2: 1 -> 5 tailored (government) communication H3: 1 -> 5 e-government H4: 1 -> 6 livelong independent living H5: 1 -> 5 e-(language) learning and testing [www.taalinbedrijf.org/forum] H6: 1 -> 5 translation and translation tools H7: 1 -> 4 automotive, mobility and logistics H8: 1 -> 5 business intelligence H9: 1 -> 5 e-health

  17. Conclusion • no HLT industry in Flanders ? • HLT industry not comparable to the Netherlands ? If you look hard enough …

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