Annual Report 2010 - Fachgruppe Informatik an der RWTH Aachen ...

Research Projects
Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE)
The goal of the GALE program is to develop automatic systems to extract information from a
variety of sources, such as broadcast news, newswire text or usenet newsgroup articles in the
languages English, Chinese and Arabic.
In 2010, the "Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6" participated as a member of them ROSETTA team,
led by IBM. RWTH contributes translations from Arabic to English from two translation
engines to this project. In addition, RWTH provides consensus translations generated from
translations of all team members in this language pair.
Quaero
Quaero is a large collaborative research and development program, centered at developing
multimedia and multilingual indexing and management tools for professional and general
public applications such as the automatic analysis, classification, extraction and exploitation
of information.
The research aims to facilitate the extraction of information of multimedia and multilingual
documents, including written texts, speech and music audio files, and images and videos.
Quaero responds to new needs for the general public and professional use, and new
challenges in multimedia content analysis resulting from the explosion of various information
types and sources in digital form, available to everyone via personal computers, television and
handheld terminals.
Since the official start of the program in May 2008, the ‘Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6’
contributes to the projects by developing and supplying technologies and corpora for Machine
Translation, Automatic Speech Recognition and Image Recognition.
JUMAS (Judicial Management by Digital Libraries Semantics)
The JUMAS project aims at researching and developing tools for assisting the judicial
process, specifically related to court room activities. The goal is to show possibilities of
integrating information from many different sources, collecting, enriching and sharing
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