Multilingual Informedia & News on Demand

1. Multilingual Informedia & News on Demand Schedule Serbo-Croatian training data compiled Serbo-Croatian MLI system demonstrated Multidocument summarizer ‘97 ‘98 ‘99 ‘00 Multilingual summarizer Coherent story-segmentation Deploy remote Multilingual News-on-Demand testbed • New Ideas • Automatically process broadcast-quality video in multiple languages for inclusion in a digital video library that supports search, retrieval, summarization, and reuse • Access foreign-language video source materials via queries in English or a target language (e.g., Serbo-Croatian, German) • Summarize multiple documents on demand using language-independent techniques that deliver maximally relevant, minimally redundant output • Provide tools for extracting, annotating, and reusing video content for reporting and briefing applications • Develop statistical learning methods for rapidly training index/search mechanisms Network-based, remote access Domestic & Serbo-Croatianbroadcast news Learning Languagemodels Summarization Multilingual speech understanding Audio/video segmentation Multimedia indexing & search • Impact • Enable search and retrieval of foreign-language broadcast-news content without requiring fluency in the target language • Support intelligence analysis through rapid, selective access to relevant text, audio, and video in multiple languages • Merge multiple perspectives/accounts of the same situation • Address real operational needs, for example: “Information Anchor Desk;” UAV video analysis and interpretation; intelligent, wearable reconnaissance patrol assistants; VTC-based meeting content capture and review • Carnegie Mellon University 8/98