Project description Language Technologies Show the project objective Hide the project objective Identifying semantic inference relations between texts is a major underlying language processing task, needed in practically all text understanding applications. For example, Question Answering and Information Extraction systems should verify that extracted answers and relations are indeed inferred from the text passages; multi-document text summarization needs to infer that one sentence entails another in order to avoid redundantly including both in a summary; and so on. While such apparently similar inferences are broadly needed, there are currently no generic semantic "engines" or platforms for broad textual inference. Rather, tools exist for narrow semantic tasks, but systems have to independently assemble and augment them to obtain a complete inference process. Changing this ineffective setting is our primary scientific motivation.Our second, industrial-oriented, motivation is within the text analytics market. We focus on the customer interaction domain, which today spans multiple channels such as speech, email and social media. This growing market shows increasing demand for automatically analyzing customer inputs to harness their value. A major stumbling block, however, is the current inability to perform effective inferences over complete customer statements, rather than just keyword-based or topical analysis.Accordingly, we set dual goals for our project. The first is to develop a generic multi-lingual platform for textual inference, based on the successful textual entailment paradigm, and make it available to the scientific and technological communities. This will enable diverse applications to leverage the open platform for their inference needs, while sharing around it the development of core semantic technology. Our second goal is to leverage the inference platform to develop a new generation of unsupervised text exploration technology for customer interactions, enabling business users to better grasp their diverse and often unpredicted content. 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 NICE SYSTEMS LTD Address Hapnina 8 43107 Ra anana Israel See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Nir Raz (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all OMQ GmbH Germany EU contribution € 330 000,00 Address Urbanstraße 116 10967 Berlin See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Sven Engelmann (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUR KUNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH Germany EU contribution € 598 000,00 Address Trippstadter strasse 122 67663 Kaiserslautern See on map Region Rheinland-Pfalz Rheinhessen-Pfalz Kaiserslautern, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Walter Olthoff (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG Germany EU contribution € 448 000,00 Address Seminarstrasse 2 69117 Heidelberg See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Heidelberg, Stadtkreis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sebastian Pado (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY Israel EU contribution € 592 000,00 Address Bar ilan university campus 52900 Ramat gan See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Estelle Waise (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER Italy EU contribution € 676 000,00 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 Other funding No data ALMAWAVE S.R.L Italy EU contribution € 177 000,00 Address Via di casal boccone 188-190 00137 Roma See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Carmela Cusato (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data CENTRE FOR THE EVALUATION OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES SCRL Participation ended Italy EU contribution € 18 000,00 Address Via sommarive 18 38123 Povo - trento See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact VERONICA GIORDANI (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data
