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An International News Monitoring Solution by Salim Roukos

Designed to address the exponential growth of broadcast information, the IBM Translingual Automatic Language Exploitation System (TALES) allows users (say an English speaker) to monitor in near real-time, foreign language news broadcasts and news websites, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. TALES currently supports Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, and English web and broadcast news monitoring. In this talk, I will describe the component technologies of speech recognition, statistical machine translation, and information extraction that are used to build the TALES speech translation application.Bio:
Salim Roukos is Senior Manager and CTO for Translation Technologies at IBM. His research areas at IBM have been in statistical machine translation, information extraction, statistical parsing, and statistical language understanding for conversational systems. Roukos received his B.E. from the American University of Beirut, in 1976, his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida, in 1978 and 1980, respectively. Roukos has served as Chair of the IEEE Digital Signal Processing Committee in 1988. Roukos lead the group that created IBM's ViaVoice Telephony product, the first commercial software to support full natural language understanding for dialog systems in 2000, and more recently the first statistical machine translation product for Arabic-English translation in 2003. More recently, Roukos leads the Rosetta Consortium (IBM with six leading US universities) for the DARPA GALE project for developing machine translation technology for both text and speech inputs and for developing distillation systems to answer user's requests for information.Host: Dr. Shrikanth Narayanan

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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