Project description Language TechnologiesToday Europe is facing larger and more critical language challenges than ever before. The production of multilingual content now far outpaces our ability to translate it by human effort and we must turn to automatic methods to cope. Thus, effective and innovative alternatives must be provided to Europe's citizens and businesses. High performing machine translation technology can be part of the solution.Recent advances in machine translation (MT) technology now show great promise, as systems can be trained automatically from data and achieve respectable performance, even from speech input. However, MT still has very high maintenance costs, and is unsuited to cope with many of today's digital media's relentlessly changing streams of information, across different topics, styles, and genres. 'Bridges Across the Language Divide' (EU-BRIDGE) proposes to advance speech translation to the point where it can deal with the varying input conditions occurring in digital media, and is able to automatically adapt itself to the changing domains.Training data for modern state-of-the-art statistical speech translation models has become a valuable resource that is difficult and expensive to collect in sufficient quantities for all languages and domains of interest. EU-BRIDGE will therefore seek to reduce the cost of data collection and the dependency on collected data.In its research EU-BRIDGE will address European and non-European languages of high importance to the businesses and citizens of Europe, also dealing with the problem of addressing under-resourced languages and their specific peculiarities.EU-BRIDGE will further be working on European infrastructure and network services in order to provide European businesses with a tangible benefit when operating in a multilingual market, e.g. TV captioning and translation. EU-BRIDGE has identified four use cases which will be serviced by its infrastructure and which will proof the concept of EU-BRIDGE to stimulate use by many more use case developers in the future. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Today Europe is facing larger and more critical language challenges than ever before. The production of multilingual content now far outpaces our ability to translate it by human effort and we must turn to automatic methods to cope. Thus, effective and innovative alternatives must be provided to Europe's citizens and businesses. High performing machine translation technology can be part of the solution.Recent advances in machine translation (MT) technology now show great promise, as systems can be trained automatically from data and achieve respectable performance, even from speech input. However, MT still has very high maintenance costs, and is unsuited to cope with many of today's digital media's relentlessly changing streams of information, across different topics, styles, and genres.'Bridges Across the Language Divide' (EU-BRIDGE) proposes to advance speech translation to the point where it can deal with the varying input conditions occurring in digital media, and is able to automatically adapt itself to the changing domains.Training data for modern state-of-the-art statistical speech translation models has become a valuable resource that is difficult and expensive to collect in sufficient quantities for all languages and domains of interest. EU-BRIDGE will therefore seek to reduce the cost of data collection and the dependency on collected data.In its research EU-BRIDGE will address European and non-European languages of high importance to the businesses and citizens of Europe, also dealing with the problem of addressing under-resourced languages and their specific peculiarities.EU-BRIDGE will further be working on European infrastructure and network services in order to provide European businesses with a tangible benefit when operating in a multilingual market, e.g. TV captioning and translation. EU-BRIDGE has identified four use cases which will be serviced by its infrastructure and which will proof the concept of EU-BRIDGE to stimulate use by many more use case developers in the future. Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2011.4.2 - Language Technologies Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2011-7 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE Address Kaiserstrasse 12 76131 Karlsruhe Germany See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Karlsruhe, Stadtkreis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sebastian Stüker (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 1 578 570,00 Participants (11) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN Germany EU contribution € 1 004 000,00 Address Templergraben 55 52062 Aachen See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Städteregion Aachen Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ernst Schmachtenberg (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH Participation ended Germany EU contribution € 498 270,00 Address Talstrasse 9a 76337 Waldbronn See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Christian Fügen (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window ACCIPIO PROJECTS GMBH Germany EU contribution € 531 876,00 Address Roermonder strasse 216 52072 Aachen See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Volker Steinbiss (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window NOKIA BELL LABS FRANCE Participation ended France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Site nokia paris saclay, route de villejust 91620 Nozay See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Essonne Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Dohy HONG (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window ANDREXEN France EU contribution € 207 744,00 Address Rue louise michel 17 92300 Levallois-perret See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact KAROLYN FAVREAU (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Hong Kong EU contribution € 352 000,00 Address Clear water bay kowloon 999077 Hong kong See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Jenny Cheng (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER Italy EU contribution € 986 000,00 Address Via santa croce 77 38122 Trento See on map Region Nord-Est Provincia Autonoma di Trento Trento Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Umberto Silvestri (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window PERVOICE SPA Italy EU contribution € 859 540,00 Address Via alla cascata 56c 38123 Trento See on map Region Nord-Est Provincia Autonoma di Trento Trento Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Dario Franceschini (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window POLSKO-JAPONSKA AKADEMIA TECHNIK KOMPUTEROWYCH Poland EU contribution € 386 000,00 Address Ulica koszykowa 86 02 008 Warszawa See on map Region Makroregion województwo mazowieckie Warszawski stołeczny Miasto Warszawa Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Anna Muniak (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Red Bee Media Limited United Kingdom EU contribution € 438 000,00 Address Uxbridge road ealing cross 7th floor W5 5TH London See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Nilani Thavalingham (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH United Kingdom EU contribution € 1 033 000,00 Address Old college, south bridge EH8 9YL Edinburgh See on map Region Scotland Eastern Scotland Edinburgh Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Frederick Max-Lino (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window